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Maybe Telltale will announce Tales of Monkey Island for iPhone/iPod Touch? I'm not sure if the device can handle it, but Pocket Gamer has been posting this rumor for some time now:
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/The+Rumour+Mine/feature.asp?c=18592

No Mac or Wii love?

Ronzo: It's-a coming to Mac. Check his reply to Red Dye.

I'm not talking about DeathSpank. The article was about MI2:SE.

From Alexandra Boyd's twitter page (http://twitter.com/ecowarrioress):

Alexandras ep of New Tricks on BBC1 mon 9pm. FROM PARIS WITH LOVE opens fri & new series of Monkey Island starts recording on Tuesday!! 3:50 AM Feb 21st via Twitterrific

Nice catch. I think that may refer to MI2, though.

I'm sure it is.

I anxiously await to see how they tackle the well documented and speculated-over issues of the game's background art and soundtrack.

Also, it'll be really interesting to see if LEC and Telltale do some sort of joint announcement at GDC. LEC's MI2 announcement, for example, would make a good time for Telltale to pimp any MI-related project they might be doing. Likewise, LEC could ride off of any official Season 3 announcement and Season 2 retail launch with a carefully timed and cross-promoted Hit the Road re-release. It's actually pretty exciting to think of the possibilities that are now possible due to LEC and Telltale having some kind of relationship.

I honestly can't imagine Telltale announcing anything related to Monkey Island already. The previous season finished just a few months ago, and I can't see them doing anything else but Sam & Max right now (at least as far as the public is allowed to know). You're right though, this relationship is interesting, and a HtR-remake would certainly make sense right about now. I think Telltale's next Monkey project might coincide with the re-release of Curse or Escape rather than this one. It's just way, way too early.

Let's just hope they'll do the same for Maniac Mansion/DOTT. Or Indiana.

Oh man, I need a shower.

I'd peg a new Monkey game later this year, assuming that's the next thing they do. However, there's a rumor they're already working on something else, so I assume it's going to be Sam and Max -> Unknown -> Monkey. There's a few games to re-release between here and CMI, anyways, including DotT.

Well, yeah, Connors has been talking about a more serious, more current series for a while now, so I guess we'll get that before we get another Monkey Island. Telltale has also been dropping hints about them wanting to do more with Strong Bad. If I had to guess, I would say it's going to be S&M -> Serious Thing -> Strong Bad -> Monkey. Oh well, time will tell.

Yeah, even if LEC is done with special editions after this, they've still got to re-release the rest of their adventure catalog on Steam.

I hate to sound so negative again but honestly I pray that LucasArts don't do a MI2:SE. I'm still having difficulty sleeping after the first one. Telltale are more than welcome to do whatever they want but the Monkey Island IP should be taken out of LucasArts' hands as soon as possible.

Why? It's not like a remake will destroy the original - which, presumably, is just one click away. I appreciate the remake. It got a lot of my friends to try out the Monkey Island games - and most loved them.

Fair point. I just see the first two games as being brilliant because of many things, one of which is attention to detail. Beautiful quality control is one of the pillars of the original monkey island games. They feel polished, finished, perfect. MI1:SE great as far as the general idea goes, and the music and voice work is great, but the graphical errors and omissions are inexcusable. I played halfway through it and then fired up the old version again, which is far better.

We've also now seen some amazing fan work on MI2, including that incredible 3D demo a while ago (Guy.brush I think his name was). It will be a cold day in hell (or 1992) when LucasArts themselves put out something even nearly as good as the fans could. If we could have the original graphics with voiceover, that would be 10/10. Just please don't let the current LEC artists loose on my beloved MI2 art. Please.

Omg! I knew that Mi2 would get a special edition this month (thanx to the leak from lucasarts in the retro gamer magazine)

It's probably just an announcement.

Telltale will be at GDC? Great. I'm sort of surprised they haven't announced S&M season 3 yet, what with that pre-order forum appearing over a week ago.

They hid it. Haha, honestly, it's like the inverse of the Monkey announcement. That came out of nowhere, whereas we've already had a sizeable amount of info re:Sam and Max 03.

Sam & max 3 hasn't been announced yet?

lol,such common knowledge. I guess that's one for the fans, being kept in the loop.

Well, not "officially". There hasn't been a press release.