As part of our fifteen year effort to restore all articles from the pre-MojoX days, I went and re-published my reviews of Mata Hari and The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition. Man, I wish I was you right now just so I could look forward to reading these a second time.

Special thanks to Remi and Zaarin for the various header image-making labors it takes to jump these articles to the MojoX plane. Look for articles of old to be resurrected at a brisker rate in the future. (Or at least mine; the other staffers can dust off their own crap.)

I speak of course of Darth Maul Me, a free mobile app that comes just in time for the theatrical re-release of The Phantom Menace in 3D!So is this why the trademark jokes in Monkey Island are so funny? Because they're true? Oh, sorry for invoking a non-Star Wars LEC property; I know it's impolite.

The Official Star Wars Blog reports that veteran English actor Ian Abercrombie, who voiced Chancellor Palpatine in the Star Wars: Clone Wars TV series (as well as LucasArts-published games adapted from it) passed away on January 26th. He was 77.

The blog post includes remembrances from some of the crew of The Clone Wars.

A peek at his filmography on IMDB reveals that you hardly have be a Clone Wars viewer to have enjoyed this man's work. Among a multitude of other roles, he played Mister Pitt, Elaine's needy millionaire boss on several episodes of Seinfeld, John Hammond's butler in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and the bearded wise man who sent Bruce Campbell to fetch the necronomicon in Army of Darkness (along with the poorly heeded instructions to speak three magic words).

A few Telltale forumites observed that, unlike previous Telltale seasons, the PC/Mac release of Law & Order: Legacy episodes did not come with information about the traditional end-of-season DVD. Sure enough, customer service rep Michael Parks replied with this:That's kind of interesting simply because I think it's a first. Is this a new trend, or does Telltale simply figure that Law & Order fans won't miss the perk of a collector's disc as much a fans of more geeky licenses (aka all their others) would?

It's being reported that Kalypso Media, which was scheduled to publish retail versions of Jurassic Park: The Game for PC and Xbox 360 on February 24th, will be dropping the Xbox version.

This probably means that whatever success that Jurassic Park has enjoyed has primarily been through digital distribution.

Double Fine Happy Action Theater? Released! Trenched Iron Brigade: Rise of the Martian Bear DLC? Also released! Today! Right now! I mean, my lord, get on your Xbox and download them both!

Update: And if that wasn't enough for you, then PC fans will be pleased to hear that Steam is offering 50% off their "Double Fine Pack" -- Today only! That includes Costume Quest (with the Grubbins on Ice DLC) and the updated version of Psychonauts for your PC. Half price!

Link: 50% Off The Double Fine Pack

The AGS Bake Sale Bundle is a bundle of games made with the popular Adventure Game Studio game creation utility. Like the Humble Indie Bundle and other similar bundles, the AGS Bake Sale bundle is available for whatever price you feel the games are worth, and proceeds go to charity (in this case Child's Play, a charity which helps sick children by giving them video games to enjoy).

All fourteen of the games in the bundle are all new and were designed specifically for the AGS Bake Sale. While all the games use the Adventure Game Studio, not all the games are adventures. There are a few games from other genres in there too, such as the Indiana Jones inspired platformer Indiana Rodent and the Raiders Of The Lost Cheese, starring a mouse in a tiny fedora.

So what are you waiting for? Name your price, help sick children take their mind off their illness, and get fourteen new games right here.

iPad owners can finally play "The Depths", the third episode of Jurassic Park: The Game, as it is now available at the iTunes store.

The rest of the platforms that Jurassic Park: The Game runs on received all of the episodes at once, but Telltale decided to release the iPad version on their usual monthly schedule of one episode per month. iPad users can stop worrying about playing catch up soon though. This is the penultimate episode, meaning only one episode still remains.

Sam & Max is hitting iOS. No no, don't be silly, we're not finally seeing the completion of The Devil's Playhouse nearly two years later, but rather episode one of Beyond Time and Space.

"What makes this version so special?!", you may cry. Well, there's a "Whack-da-Ratz" competitive minigame... And there's a soundboard... Soundboards are fun, right?

Really, though, Beyond Time and Space was a great season, so pick it up if you want to enjoy it on your favorite iOS device. It'll be the best $7 you ever spent.

In case you didn't catch this: Law & Order: Legacies is now available for the PC and Mac. The first episodes are, of course, already out on iOS. So hey. Choices!

Having played a bit of the first episode, I can say it's not a bad game, if you don't mind rather... simplistic... game mechanisms. We'll have a review soon. (-Ish.)

Remember Sam & Max Hit the Road and Curse of Monkey Island? Kind of? Well, now's your chance to be reminded about the two games's awesomeness. No, not by playing them yourself -- how 2011 is that?! -- but by watching 1UP play them for you.

The site has a "lunch break" feature, apparently, where they play classic games while streaming the experience live. You can also ask them questions about what the hell's going on.

Tune in tomorrow, the 25th, at 1pm for Sam & Max and the 26th for Curse.

Red Tails, the first non-franchise Lucasfilm production since 1994, is now playing nationwide in the U.S. and Canada. The long-in-gestation passion project for George Lucas, who probably influenced the result beyond what his story and producer credits suggest, is inspired by the real life exploits of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.

The reviews so far have been mixed to negative, which means it's probably one of Lucas' better efforts of the last two decades.

Popular games website Giant Bomb have put up a new QuickLook video, centering on Double Fine's new game, Happy Action Theatre. The video features Tim Schafer and someone dressed in a hotdog suit, don't you know.

QuickLook videos are GiantBomb's lovely way of showing you gameplay, and the games covered range from relative unknowns to big blockbusters. The Happy Action Theatre video shows a variety of levels, and gives a good idea of the kind of gameplay on offer here - minus, I think, Tim Schafer and a hotdog suit.

It's kind of amazing how many years of mileage the rumor mill has gotten out of Star Wars: Battlefront III, a sequel which is shaping up to have a damn near The Dig level of cyclical false starts.

A third installment in the hugely popular shooter franchise would seem a no-brainer, and indeed it was reported to have been being worked on a number of times by a number of different parties (on various occasions, rumors held that the contract was given to Free Radical, Rebellion, and even original Battlefront developer Pandemic), but the project never seemed able to gain any traction for whatever reason. I guess when a studio goes into transition as hyperactively as LEC does, it's more than the little games that suffer. Or maybe the game was just never turning out good, who knows.

Anyhow, the neverending story has entered a new chapter, or did a few weeks ago when everyone besides us reported on it. The latest developer associated with Battlefront III is Spark Unlimited, who turned in a Call of Duty installment several years back. Here's the evidence, as reported by Game Informer:It's been not unreasonably speculated that Spark Unlimited could in fact just be working on another Call of Duty, but the rumors persist. And the saga continues.

The production of the movie version of Bone, based on the celebrated Jeff Smith comic saga that Telltale was adapting before they weren't, looks to finally be starting in earnest soon now that a director has been signed. It is Australian director P.J. Hogan, best known for the 2003 live action take on Peter Pan. Its screenwriter is Patrick Sean Smith, a fellow with a number of television credits who'll be making his first foray into features with this project.

As previously known, the animated film will be produced by Lin Pictures and Animal Logic (of Happy Feet fame), with Warner Bros. holding the comics' film rights. There are no details on whether or not the adaptation will consist of multiple films, which was discussed at one point, but this news would certainly suggest that things are moving forward.

ArsTechnica have published an article, entitled Maniac Tentacle Mindbenders, which discusses how "How ScummVM's unpaid coders kept adventure gaming alive" (as opposed to the paid coders, those worthless hacks).

ScummVM, as you may know, is a program that allows you to run certain old school adventure games on a variety of modern machines and consoles, from your fancy new PC to your PSP. It's a lovely piece of software (open source and released under the GPL, I might add; if you think you can contribute, go wild), and it's nice to see a full-length article talk about it. It's so nice I'm going to link you twice.

And it is February 1st.

In other words, it is time to get that Kinect out of storage, as it look like this game could be fun. Joystiq has a good preview up of it.

You'd never know it (unless you're already subscribed to their podcast RSS feed) but Double Fine keeps releasing new episodes of their podcast, and not telling anyone about it.

The latest episode (number five, no less!) features Steven Dengler, the "shady-but-benevolent" investment partner who personally funded the Costume Quest PC and Psychonauts Mac releases.

Keep abreast of new episodes by entering the following URL into your favourite podcast/RSS software (or just by visiting it in your browser):

http://www.doublefine.com/rss/ActionCast/

But don't let Tim Schafer know I told you.

It's a new year, so probably about time for a new poll. This time we're asking our Mojo readers about their gaming systems... Just what hardware is the discerning Adventure Game fan packing in 2012?

As for "Which of Double Fine's Amnesia Fortnight games is your favorite?", all is finally revealed below! (Well, kind of... Iron Brigade has only just been released in Europe, and Once Upon A Monster isn't even on the list -- but, er, never mind!)

Which of Double Fine's Amnesia Fortnight games is your favorite?
I am ashamed that I haven't played any yet		19
Costume Quest/Grubbins on Ice		11
Stacking/The Lost Hobo King		11
Trenched (for those who've been allowed to play it)		0
Total votes		41

After being delayed since June, Trenched Iron Brigade has finally been released on the XBox 360 in Europe... or, it was on six weeks ago.

Along with this release, the US version of the game has been given an update. It's no longer known as Iron Brigade Trenched, but has been renamed to Trenched Iron Brigade, so that multiplayer can be enjoyed internationally.

As a reward for fans tolerating all these shenanigans, Double Fine have added a new Survival game mode and new Loot for free, as part of the patch!

And as an extra bonus, a new Iron Brigade T-shirt has been revealed in the Double Fine Store.

Still no release date for the "Rise of the Martian Bear" DLC, though!