King's Quest IX/sandbox

For those keeping count, first announcement was exactly two years on February 17, 2013, and last confirmed information was given about 1 1/2 years ago on June 2011 (from 01/23/2013).

The last major production/development information was made in an interview on May 2011 (about 9 months before February 17, 2013).

The latest specific King's Quest Telltale related ("update") by a telltale employee was on March 3, 2013 (but no details were given)..

Timeline http://www.adventuregamers.com/news/view/21058 http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/18/ki...y-of-telltale/ http://www.telltalegames.com/community/blogs/id-764 http://www.infamous-adventures.com/f...?topic=4018.60 http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18536 http://uk.ign.com/articles/2011/06/0...-quest-details http://www.destructoid.com/e3-robert...t-203396.phtml http://www.cvgames.com/previews/kings-quest http://www.gamingexaminer.com/interv...e-games/10877/ http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/...lanned-for-q3/ http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/...telltales-ceo/ http://www.siliconera.com/2012/05/16...re-game-genre/ http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...ead-Season-Two https://beta.telltalegames.com/news/ https://beta.telltalegames.com/commu...ies/kingsquest http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/02/1...telltale-games
 * February 17, 2011: Telltale's Steve Allison (SVP of marketing) announces several franchises at a press conference including Walking Dead, and Fables. Telltale announces that they have obtained a Sierra license, King's Quest to be the first game, other series to follow. King's Quest is thought to be a reboot.
 * February 18, 2011: Telltale announces King's Quest in a blog post on the Telltale website. It mentions that Walking Dead will be released first, followed by fable (they were projecting for a Winter 2011, and a Q1 2012 release). King's Quest's release is not clear, but implied to be an undertermined point in the horizon, apparently post Fable. Mentions 'reboot'.
 * February 19, 2011: Telltale adds King's Quest to the Telltale forum list for people to discuss the game. The first post is by Alan Johnson the Telltale Community Manager.http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/...ad.php?t=22891
 * March 8, 2011: Josh Mandel apparently talked to Telltale briefly about the new King's Quest, and he thought they were the right group to resurrect the franchise.
 * March 14, 2011: Interview with Adventure gamer. Confirmed not to be a true reboot.
 * June 7, 2011: E3, very little confirmed. It's not to be reboot, and will probably star Royal Family of Daventry. Roberta Williams was 'consulted'. Hints that future Sierra games would be after King's Quest, possibly Space Quest or others. Telltale games to be pushed back to 2012 release dates (this moves Walking Dead to 2012).
 * September 11, 2011: Gaming Examiner interviews Alan Johson, who tells them that Telltale is working on King's Quest, but it won't be out for a long time.
 * March 12, 2012: Fables is pushed back to Q3 2012 (pushing King's Quest further back).
 * March 14, 2012: CEO Dan Connors makes a nod to wards King's Quest Briefly in an interview. He picked up King's Quest because he felt it was a classic IP, and would be similar to resurrecting other classic adventures like they did with Monkey Island. He mentions that they aren't focusing on it yet (article discusses that Walking Dead and Fables are the next priority).
 * April 24, 2012: Walking Dead episode I is finally released (after being delayed since winter 2011).
 * May 16, 2012: Dan Connors confirms, that Dave Grossman, and his group was starting work on King's Quest. It is mentioned that they were trying to put together the staff, and get it into production. They mention that they had talked to alot of people about it. Other than that he said they didn't have much to say about it yet. Still looks like they were looking for a post-Fables release. Walking Dead is their main focus at that point.
 * June 2012:E3, mostly talk about Walking Dead, showing of Episode 2. No confirmed references to King's Quest, or much of anything else of importance. Not much on Fables either.
 * July 6 2012: Walking Dead Season 2 Announced.
 * November 20, 2012: Walking Dead Episode 5 released. No announcements on the release date of the next game series. Still believed to be Fables next.
 * February 6, 2013: Telltale launches beta for new website and forums, that will ultimately replace the old website. There is currently no webpage for King's Quest, and no direct access to a King's Quest forum either. However, the forum still shows up through a hidden link (and is useable).
 * February 12, 2013: It is announced that Fables game will be more of a tie-in, and won't be called Fables. It is looking more likely that it will be the next game released. Walking Dead Season 2, will be a future release (how far in the future is unknown). It is also mentioned that Telltale has many other projects they are working on at at the same time (but no specifics as to what these projects are, or when they will be announced). IGN appears to assume that this will include King's Quest. Fables was originally to be released in Q1 2012, got pushed back to Q3 2012, but was not released.
 * February 17, 2013: Two year anniversary of when Telltale's King's Quest was first announced (nine months from the previous major announcement).
 * March 1, 2013: Dan Connors states that they aren't ready to say anything about the King's Quest project yet, but will say something when they are ready to talk about it. Rock Paper Shotgun asked if there were anything beyond Fables and King's Quest down the pipeline, and Connors mentions that they have a couple of unannounced projects being sorted out.[ http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013...to-the-punch/] ] Fables and Walking Dead Season 2 are projected for 2013 releases.

Note (miscellaneous): We also know that this year in 2013 that Telltale is expanding in size, to make more games. No idea what they are expanding to make though. http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/20/te...n-spring-2013/

Paul Trowe/Replay (third Party account) http://mixnmojo.com/news/Is-Paul-Tro...r-Kickstarters http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012...t/#more-103251 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...QuesOrPoliQues
 * April 10, 2012: Replay Games again attempts to also get Sierra license from Activision to bring back King's Quest and Space Quest, but were told that the another company already had the licenses. But they were still going to try to get a second license if possible.
 * April 12, 2012: Replay games mentions that for them to help make King's Quest, Space, Quest, Police Quest, etc, they may have to partner with Telltale games in the future.
 * April 1, 2013: “They had [the King's Quest rights], and we were going to license it from them to make the remakes. I wouldn’t do a King’s Quest without Roberta. [Telltale senior VP of publishing] Steve Allison told me that they have the rights but they don’t have the bandwidth.” Allison offered to look into sub-licensing King’s Quest out to Replay, but Trowe hit a dead end when he brought the conversation over to Activision. ”I talked to the guys at Activision and they were like, ‘No, we’re pulling it [from Telltale] because we’re going to do it ourselves.’ http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/...th-paul-trowe/