The Wolf Among Us 2 lastly has a launch window. The revived Telltale Games crew has announced that its long-in-the-making sequel will likely be accessible someday in 2023. There’s a brand new trailer to match, and this clip sheds extra mild on the place this precursor to Bill Willingham’s Fables is headed.

The trailer intersperses Fabletown sheriff Bigby Wolf’s explanations of his strategies in an AA-style assembly with a bust towards Dorothy’s companions from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Suffice it to say the fusion of a gritty, fashionable world with legendary characters is as unusual but seamless as ever — Wolf remains to be a hardened but fantastical beast, and his targets aren’t precisely the harmless creatures you keep in mind from Oz. The Wolf Among Us 2 is ready six months after the primary season, and guarantees loads of drama when a brand new case will get the NYPD concerned.

The sequel ought to arrive roughly a decade after the unique Wolf Among Us premiered in 2013, and displays a troubled birthing course of that included Telltale dissolving in 2018 (thus cancelling WAU season two) and getting a second likelihood from LCG Entertainment in 2019. It’s additionally symbolic of the event crew’s return to type — Telltale itself is constructing an adaptation of The Expanse, whereas former Telltale staffers at Dramatic Labs are engaged on Star Trek: Resurgence. Telltale as you first knew it’s lengthy gone, however it could nonetheless have an outsized impact on the gaming trade.