Variety is reporting that TV network AMC, and Korean developer Smilegate, were in funding talks with Telltale Games shortly before the mass layoffs — that have shocked the games industry — occurred.
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It’s said that Telltale even held a meeting to tell its employees that negotiations with AMC ‘were going well’. Both companies ended up backing out for unknown reasons.
AMC itself declined to comment to Variety.