So, if Telltale is shutting down, what does that mean for Stranded Deep?

You have probably read the sad news that has made its way around the interwebs today that Telltale Games, the developer of many beloved adventure titles, is shutting its doors. Most of the staff was laid off this morning, with Telltale saying that it is keeping a skeleton crew on board to finish a few things off. No word yet on what this means for ongoing projects like the current season of The Walking Dead, or any future Telltale titles.

But what really has me befuddled is the fact that I just received an email from Telltale to my personal email account yesterday, advertising the upcoming release of Stranded Deep, a survival title developed by Beam Team Games. 

Now, it's important to note that Stranded Deep was released on Steam in January of 2015, so this ad that I got was announcing the pre-sale of a PS4 and Xbox One port. The website is still live, but the links to pre-order take curious parties to "page not found" areas in the PlayStation store and a pretty lame looking page in the Microsoft store. 

I repeat, I got this advertisement email yesterday, and the announcement started making the rounds that Telltale was closing down early this afternoon. What wild chain of sad events led to this predicament, and how does Beam Team Games feel about these developments. I sent Beam Team an email to see if they had any comments, and will update if I hear back.

Until then, we at Gaming Nexus wish all the best for the staff at Telltale that lost their jobs today. This was sad news indeed.