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It's ON!!! 09 Jan, 2008 / Comments: 15

By The Tingler


The time is up, the Final Countdown done, and thankfully I have a wonderful announcement to make - elTee's plausible suggestion was wrong. Pinch me.

In fact, the even more impossible has happened. Check out Grumpy Gamer first, then come back.

Yes, that's right. Unless Ron Gilbert is seriously messing with our innocence gullible minds, he's got a new publisher for his Adventure/RPG game! That new publisher is Hothead Games, who are also publishing the upcoming Penny Arcade Adventures game On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One that Ronny G is acting as advisor for.

The new game is (again, unless we're being totally messed with) DeathSpank: Episode I - Orphans of Justice, so presumably it's gonna be episodic. The game's described by Ron Nee Gee as "the perfect melding of a Monkey Island style adventure game with the wicked RPG game play of Diablo". There's already a temporary website up for the game up here.

Guess we need to update that 'Untitled Ron Gilbert Project' game in the database...



UPDATE: No joke, it's Official now. Yay!

Source: Grumpy Gamer

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15 Comments

  • clone2727 on 10 Jan, 2008, 11:09…
    http://www.gamershell.com/companies/hothead_games/390768.html
  • jp-30 on 10 Jan, 2008, 02:22…
    So is L. Ron Gilbert actually moving to Vancouver?
  • Gabez on 10 Jan, 2008, 08:15…
    Haha, JP: you are the KING of nick-names
  • jp-30 on 10 Jan, 2008, 20:13…
    I expect a new category in the Mojo 2008 survey.
  • The Tingler on 10 Jan, 2008, 13:03…
    Now all we need is a Church of Ron...
  • WorldMaker on 09 Jan, 2008, 23:39…
    Congratulations are in order to Ron in that he is now Hothead's new Creative Director (it's at the bottom of his post) and that could mean great things for Hothead's future.
  • jp-30 on 09 Jan, 2008, 22:23…
    A taster for things to come...

    http://grumpygamer.com/comic-1290


  • elTee on 09 Jan, 2008, 20:46…
    Update the games database?? UPDATE the database?

    Never!
  • jp-30 on 09 Jan, 2008, 20:06…
    I'll let my wife & kids know that I have a reason to live again!

    Also, the hotheadgames.com press release confirms it's episodic.
  • salty-horse on 09 Jan, 2008, 20:05…
    It's funny how the Penny Arcade game can be described (by me) as "Adventure meets Final-Fantasy RPG" and DeathSpank is "Adventure meets Diablo RPG".
  • Udvarnoky on 09 Jan, 2008, 18:15…
    woot.

    Also, Double Fine's minigame is genius.
  • neon_git on 09 Jan, 2008, 17:34…
    This is cool and all, but I worry about The Schafernator getting lonely. There's going to be a sad, unused desk in the corner of Double Fine where a great man used to sit.
  • MrSneeze on 09 Jan, 2008, 16:56…
    Just one thing: "innocence gullible minds"?
  • The Tingler on 09 Jan, 2008, 19:34…
    I originally was going to just use 'innocence' but then added 'gullible minds' to it. It's supposed to read 'innocent gullible minds'.
  • Gabez on 09 Jan, 2008, 16:52…
    Haha, DeathSpank! This game is going to PWN!