Update: Bill thinks Monday.

As has been his way, Bill transmits his latest update on the A Vampyre Story: Year One Kickstarter launch via Facebook. Until the next hang-fire!

Update: May 19: I originally linked to the wrong part of the interview. Thanks to Vainamoinen on the Telltale forums for pointing out my mistake.

Remember the strange time towards the end of the run of Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures where Telltale started releasing Tales of Monkey Island before the former had even finished? According to an interview with Telltale's Ken Bruner over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, that won't be such a strange situation anymore.

Telltale is planning on releasing multiple seasons at the same time, provided that the release of The Wolf Among Us goes smoothly. They want to make sure that this release doesn't have the save bugs and other major problems that The Walking Dead had. If the release goes according to plan, they plan to release another season concurrently at some point after The Wolf Among Us launch. This seems to be a result of the expansion Telltale just recently underwent. Exactly which games will be the first to recieve this treatment is unknown at this point. Could it be the end of The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead Season Two (similar to the aforementioned Tales situation)? Could it be a completely unannounced season? Or perhaps the bonus that's supposed to take place in The Walking Dead universe to ease the wait between seasons? It's anyone's guess at this point, but I think I speak for all of Mixnmojo in hoping that it is Sam & Max Season Four (since Tales of Monkey Island Season Two seems pretty unlikely after the Disney buyout of Lucasfilm).

There's some other interesting tidbits to be found in the second part of the interview, such as the talk of the Pilot Program. Apparently, it's still alive and well. And, pieces of the ideas appear in the games that have been released. It was previously thought to only be Telltale's spring board for testing new, quirky ideas as one episode releases to minimize risk (an idea that brought us the Puzzle Agent and Poker Night games). However, it's now been revealed that it is the name for their prototyping sessions, and that portions of these prototypes have wound up in released games. One of the most interesting things revealed is that The Walking Dead actually started out as Telltale's Pilot Program zombie prototype.

One of the factoids that is of the most importance to Mojo is the bit in the first part of the interview where Kevin Bruner talks more about how The Wolf Among Us is going to play, how different it is from The Walking Dead, and how many traditional adventure game elements are going to be in it (hint: not much, although there are going to be detective elements that are said to be as mentally challenging as traditional adventure puzzles).

Ron Gilbert is watching and commenting. Click here and be happy.

Geek Exchange has lovingly complied a list of many of LucasArts' best loved older games and linked to the best places to purchase them. Some of the games are probably easier to find in the UK, Australia and New Zealand due to the relatively recent Activision re-releases under the LucasArts Classics banner.

It's the sort of thing we should probably do here at Mojo someday. Until that day though, enjoy Geek Exchange's hard work.

Feel free to add to the list in the Comments section if you know of more places to legally obtain these, and any other classic LucasArts games.

LucasArts Fan Felipe Machado has put together a loving tribute to the SCUMM era by mashing up several classic characters and locations.



Neat!

And not just one sequel... potentially three more Gungan Frontier games!

Fusible has found a few new domain names that Lucasfilm has registered. There's a few interesting ones in here besides Gungan Frontier:

The latest Humble Indie Bundle is all about the Double Fine.

Pay what you want, and get Costume Quest, Stacking, and Psychonauts for PC, Mac, and Linux as DRM-free downloads (and as a Steam key if you pay more than $1 USD)! Pay more than the average (currently just under $8 USD), and you'll also get Brütal Legend (also for Windows, Mac, and Linux DRM-free and with a Steam key).

If you have the money, you may also pay $70 or more, which will net you an exclusive Humble Double Fine Bundle T-shirt (available in black or cream).

Like all Humble Indie Bundles, a portion goes to charity (Child's Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation), and there's a slider available which you can decide how much of your payment goes to which charity, how much goes to Double Fine, and how much goes to Humble Bundle. If you haven't picked up these games yet, want to get a Steam key for the games, want to support charity and/or Double Fine, or just want to get them again for whatever reason, the Humble Double Fine Bundle is for you.

Game Informer's exclusive first look at Telltale's game based on Bill Willingham's Fables comics, The Wolf Among Us, is now available online for those who don't subscribe to the print magazine (or its digital counterpart).

There's quite a few screenshots showing the game's excellent comic book inspired style in action, as well as some more information about how the game is going to play. It's definitely worth a read (if you haven't read it already).

Yeah, so this happened.

Lucasfilm Ltd. and Disney Interactive are entering into a multi-year, multi-title exclusive licensing agreement with Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) for the creation of new high quality Star Wars games spanning multiple genres for console, PC, mobile, and tablets.

"Exclusive"!? Holy sith.

Noah Falstien, of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis fame, has been hired by Google as their 'Chief Game Designer' for their new Android Play Studio. Unfortunately, the news is a bit sparse so far, as There's no word yet on what games he'll be making for the studio (or anything else really, beyond his title).

But, it should be interesting to see what comes from this though, at the very least.

Polygon is reporting that Leap Motion has pushed back their Motion Controller for PC and Mac from May to the 22nd of July. The company pushed back the release to allow for a new round of beta testing that will begin in June.

This means that Double Fine's "music driven score challenge game", Dropchord, has also been pushed back, as it will be a launch title for the device. There are also plans to release Dropchord on smartphones and tablets, but no specific platforms or release dates have been set for those versions as of yet.

ScummVM release testing season is upon us again, as version 1.6.0 of the program that lets you play classic adventure games on modern platforms nears release. The ScummVM team needs your help testing the new games which will added to ScummVM this release: 3 Skulls of the Toltecs, Eye of the Beholder, Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon, Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths, and The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime.

Additionally, they need your help testing Hopkins FBI, which will be added to ScummVM 1.6.0 only if they get testing results on several platforms for several versions of the game (which includes BeOS, OS/2, Linux and Windows). Also, in what is of the most interest to Mojo readers, they are looking for people to test Full Throttle.

So, if you have any of the games listed, help the team out by testing the game out using a daily build of ScummVM, posting any bugs you might find to their bug tracker, and reporting your findings on their forums, so they can update their 1.6.0 Release Testing page. Remember, stick to their release testing guidelines, and as always, happy adventuring!

Game Informer's print preview of Broken Age has been out for a while but it has only just been made available online.

It's a good long read, but if you're determined to go into the game knowing nothing at all, it may be best to steer clear - it does go into some details of the early plot of the game. In fact, it reveals more than has even been available to backers so far, though nothing I would regard as a big spoiler. To me, reading it recalled poring over those old LucasArts previews in the 1990s, trying to glean as much information as possible because we were so excited about this new thing. I've got a good feeling about this one.

If you want to get a good feeling too, visit Hot Youn-- er, I mean go here.

Cheese, who helps out running the Double Fine Game Club, interviewed Ron Gilbert back in January before their first playthrough if The Cave. Mojo, which always is on the ball about such things, reports on this today and tells you to go here posthaste to read it!

The same month, he also talked to Greg Rice and Nathan Martz from Double Fine and you can read that interview by visiting this page!

Well, is it better than the original? Find out what we think in our Poker Night 2 review.

Telltale has just launched their latest poker game worldwide, but only on Xbox Live. Steam will follow on April 26th and PlayStation Network users in North America will be able to join in on the fun on the 30th. Release dates for European PSN and iOS have yet to be announced, but you can shorten the wait by 1 minute and 35 seconds by watching the launch trailer:

GOG.com, once sellers of Good Old Games and now simply GOG, are featuring their catalogue of Telltale Games games (games) at 85% off!(!!) That's three (!!!) Sam and Max games, one Monkey Island, one Back to the Future game and one Wallace and Gromit game, plus an assortment of freebies thrown in for good measure, because that's what GOG does. Boy, does anyone else fancy a grog after saying GOG a lot? GOG.

The Steam Database once again proves itself useful in finding out future releases. Accoring to Brütal Legend's entry in the Steam database, versions for Linux and OS X should be coming soon.

If that's not enough Brütal Legend for you, you may be pleased to know that the Team Fortress 2 items that were available for pre-order are now available to purchase through Double Fine's Steam Workshop items. Those who pre-ordered (and who are concerned about such things) need not worry though, since only the pre-order items are marked with the "Genuine" quality.

About a week or so ago some saintly nobody unleashed his collection of rare, vintage videos of LEC press coverage by a Los Angeles morning news station onto Youtube. Dave Grossman looks about seven. Prepare to freak out.

Update by Mr Manager: Fast forward 36 seconds into the first video to witness a "never" before seen scene from The Secret of Monkey Island. We assume the view is of the cannibal village. When confronted about the scene being cut, Ronzo had this to say: "We cut stuff all the time due to flow reasons. It's not always space. I don't remember the exact reason it went away."

It's the question posed by my latest article.

Special thanks to Remi for the header image.