Variety reports that Skybound Entertainment will complete development of The Walking Dead: The Final Season, the episodic adventure that was in danger of not being completed following the shutdown of Telltale Games. This makes sense since one Skybound was formed by series author Robert Kirkman and David Alpert, executive producer of the TV series, and has collaborated on previous installments in the game series. It also sounds like this will fulfill Telltale's hopes that some of their former employees will be part of the project. Here's word:

The final episodes for Telltale Games “The Walking Dead: The Final Season” will be released afterall, with Skybound taking over development and publishing of the game, “Walking Dead” creator and Skybound founder Robert Kirkman announced Saturday. Skybound also hopes to keep the original Telltale development team intact so they can be the ones to finish the season.

Skybound Games will work with members of the original Telltale team to finish the story, though nothing has yet been finalized, a spokesperson told Variety. Skybound never used in-house developers on its games before.

“We’ve successfully negotiated with Telltale Games for our company Skybound to come in and see Season 4 of the Telltale game to completion,” Kirkman told an audience at New York Comic-Con Saturday night. “We can’t lose Andrew Lincoln and Clementine in the same year.”