On their spiffy new website (there's a lot of that going round) Gamesâ„¢ magazine have as one of their launch features a wonderful article called 'The Empire Strikes Out - LucasArts And the Death of Adventure Games'.
It mostly chronicles LucasArts of the turbulent 2003-2004 period, with some nice new insight to the making of Sam & Max: Freelance Police and Full Throttle: Hell On Wheels, although saying the latter received "an enthusiastic response" from fans is a bit of an exaggeration.
Sam & Max in particular has some nice info clarifying just how close the cancelled game got to what Telltale would later do. However, I'm not sure whether this was published early 2009 in the mag itself as mentions Fate of Atlantis being included with Indiana Jones & The Staff of Kings but makes no mention of Tales of Monkey Island.
Anyway, have a read for yourself.
Source: Gamesâ„¢
The stinger:
Mike Stemmle
I’ve often joked that the reason Freelance Police got cancelled is that thousands of European adventure gamers suddenly dropped dead. Which isn’t too far from what I was told.
a site with the cool name GamesTM has potential to be a portal equal to idlethumbs, a shame it isn't! :)
Good read otherwise though.