Wolf Among Us studio Telltale to make TV-game hybrid Super Shows with new investor Lionsgate

Entertainment giant Lionsgate has chucked a significant amount of cash at episode game maker Telltale, and the two firms will collaborate on ambitious, TV-game hybrids called "Super Shows".

Telltale boss Kevin Burner told Entertainment Weekly that a Super Show episode "combines one part of interactive playable content with one part of scripted television style content."

But it’s not an game with a TV show, or a TV show with a game like that crappy MMO Defiance, "but a story integrated in a way that only Telltale can do".

You get both the interactive portion and scripted show at the same time, but you can play or watch them in whatever order you like. But if you play the game first, the show will change to reflect your choices. And if you watch the show first, the game will be different.

"The interactive episodes will never release without a scripted episode," says Bruner. "They will always come out together." That being said, there are plans to release episodes of the scripted stuff as standard telly episodes.

Don't expect a new Telltale game every week. While the release schedule will be locked down and predictable like a TV show, the episodes will be further apart to account for the game making process.

And while every Telltale game so far, has been based on an existing property, the first Super Show is an original IP and not based on a comic or a Flash series or a claymation film - or a Lionsgate property like The Hunger Games or Mad Men.

And, finally, Bruner says that the Super Shows will crop up on "tablets and mobile phones".