Telltale will speed up the development of original game and receive the latest capital injection

Lionsgate, a film production company, announced recently that it would inject money into the zombie series of game developers Telltale Games. Although Lion Gate did not disclose much detail, it said it was a big investment. Jon Feltheimer, the company's CEO, will also enter the telltale board of Jon Fitzmer.

As early as September 2014, Peter Levin, chairman of the Interactive Business and gaming division of Lions Gate, Peter Leven, said in a speech at the 2014 Gamesbeat conference that the Lion Gate film sees the game as the company's third-biggest pillar and plans to launch a game around each of the company's movie IPs in the future. "We regard our game business as the third leg of the stool. "In the long run, we want the game to be part of all of the company's IP strategy roadmap," Lewen said. ”

The Lion Gate Film has launched several popular films, including the "Hunger Game" (Hunger Games) trilogy, "The Divergent" and "death squads" (The Expendables). So far, Lion Gate has cooperated with Kabam to launch the mobile game "The Hobbit: The King of the Midlands" (the hobbit:kingdoms of the Middle Earth).

Telltale specializes in film and television based on IP adaptation game, is the American opera "Walking Dead" and "power Game" the same name game developers, before long and "My World" developers Mojang reached a cooperation agreement, will make "my World: Drama version." Kevin Bruller, the company's CEO, said the Lion gate was "one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial content-making companies in the world", and that telltale would speed up the development of original games, and on the other hand, the two sides were also expected to create TV dramas based on Telltale's game.