{"id":83942,"date":"2026-06-05T20:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83942"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:38:31","slug":"telltale-ceo-explains-why-the-wolf-among-us-2-has-taken-so-long-and-what-happened-with-that-split-with-dispatch-maker-ad-hoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83942","title":{"rendered":"Telltale CEO Explains Why The Wolf Among Us 2 Has Taken So Long, And What Happened With That Split With Dispatch Maker Ad Hoc"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Nearly a decade on from Telltale Games&#8217; first announcement of a Wolf Among Us sequel, there&#8217;s finally some good news. The rebooted version of Telltale has committed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-wolf-among-us-2-now-due-in-2027-following-remaster-of-telltales-original-game\">2027 launch for Bigby Wolf&#8217;s long-awaited next chapter, as well as a remastered version of his first adventure due out later this year<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But what has taken so long? Well, the project has survived <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2018\/09\/21\/telltale-games-reportedly-shutting-down\">the shuttering of Telltale in 2018<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2019\/12\/13\/telltale-games-shut-down-and-revival-explained\">the brand&#8217;s subsequent revival<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2019\/12\/18\/the-wolf-among-us-2-completely-restarted-with-new-engine\">a subsequent reboot<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-wolf-among-us-2-pushed-to-next-year-in-effort-to-avoid-crunch\">numerous delays<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/telltale-games-has-allegedly-laid-off-most-of-its-workers\">layoffs<\/a>, and the now-dissolved partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/dispatch\">Dispatch<\/a> maker AdHoc Studio \u2014 which worked on the game for several years. But, as Telltale Games CEO Jamie Ottilie discusses with IGN below, that&#8217;s only part of the story.<\/p>\n<p>Read on for detail on why Telltale restarted work on The Wolf Among Us 2 back in 2023, what became of the company&#8217;s partnership with AdHoc, and how much of the Dispatch developer&#8217;s work remains in the game \u2014 plus, Telltale&#8217;s plans for the future, and whether we&#8217;ll ever see a Wolf Among Us 3.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"the-wolf-among-us-2-official-trailer\" data-loop=\"\">\n<section data-transform=\"divider\">\n<p><strong>IGN: I&#8217;m looking forward to replaying The Wolf Among Us. Obviously there have been reports of a remaster, but it&#8217;s definitely been long enough since the original.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a decade on from Telltale Games&#8217; first announcement of a Wolf Among Us sequel, there&#8217;s finally some good news. The rebooted version of Telltale has committed to a 2027 launch for Bigby Wolf&#8217;s long-awaited next chapter, as well as a remastered version of his first adventure due out later this year. But what has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":83944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83946,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83942\/revisions\/83946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}