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Telltale partners with Big Fish Games 20 Dec, 2005, 21:06 / 7 comments

By Jason


Further expanding its online distribution avenue for customers, Telltale announced in a press release today that it has teamed up with Big Fish Games to offer Out from Boneville as well as future Telltale titles. As the press release points out, this new outlet is in addition to Yahoo! Games, Direct-to-Drive, Trymedia Systems, Boonty, CNET, and the developer's own Telltale Now to expand the availability of Telltale's games and to hopefully reach an even bigger audience.

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  • jp-30 on 21 Dec, 2005, 06:44…
    I wonder if this means that "Telltale Now" isn't work as well as expected (either technically or financially)?

    Or is this new partnership analagous to the game(s) being sold in a new, different retail outlet?
  • Udvarnoky on 21 Dec, 2005, 16:52…
    I think the partnership was just to add yet another way for people to get the game.
  • Udvarnoky on 21 Dec, 2005, 02:41…
    Oh, and I should mention that for a few extra bucks Big Fish will send you a CD with the game on it, which should satisfy the three idiots who refuse to play the game any other way.
  • counting_pine on 21 Dec, 2005, 23:26…
    I suspect it's just a CD in generic Big Fish packaging, with the game's installer written to it. If you want the full version, you'd still have to unlock it.

    I don't buy music online for reasons like this. It's much nice to have the original CD. It's a physical product, you can play it on whatever computer/CD player you want to, and generally comes with nice artwork.
    This is a lot better than, say, if HMV decided to stop selling the original CDs but instead provided a bunch of generic "HMV CDs", containing all the album tracks in protected WMA format, which you would then have to unlock, at a price, through their web site.
  • jp-30 on 22 Dec, 2005, 09:14…
    Never been to the iTunes Music Store?

  • counting_pine on 23 Dec, 2005, 00:18…
    Actually, I do occasionally. Sometimes I want to hear a 30 second clip of something. That's one of the places I look for it.
  • jp-30 on 21 Dec, 2005, 04:14…
    But does it come in a gigantic shiny [i]box[/i]?