Beam Team Games issues a statement regarding Telltale shutdown

As I wrote yesterday, I recently received a promotional email from Telltale Games, announcing their distribution of a PS4 and Xbox One port of Beam Team Games' survival title Stranded Deep. The email originally struck me as odd, as I was unaware of Telltale doing any publishing outside of games developed internally. However, as I have a fondness for Telltale, I was excited, and was going to post about the announcement last night.

However, before I got the chance, news circulated that Telltale was closing down, with all of their current and future projects cancelled (except for a Netflix version of their Minecraft game). I reached out to Beam Team for comment, and they responded this morning. They pledged to be as communicative as possible through "the uncertainty, in light of recent news". They also directed me to this statement on their Steam forum:

Hey everyone,
Just wanted to pop in and let everyone know that we're actively gathering information in light of the recent announcements from Telltale. 
From our side, there's been a lot of hard work from everyone involved and we'll be doing absolutely everything we can to ensure the release and success of SD on consoles!
We'll let you know more soon.

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Stay Alive!
Beam Team

So, it kind of sounds like Beam Team doesn't know what's going on either, and they are actively "gathering information" to determine the status of the console port of their title. Stranded Deep has over 18,000 reviews on Steam, with a "Mostly Positive" rating. With the surge in popularity of survival games, it seems like a great fit for a console port. Gaming Nexus will keep you posted on this side-story to the Telltale shutdown as details develop.