The Humongous Flash Bundle is on now, with a bunch of Humongous Entertainment games for cheap, with a portion to go to charity. Best of all, if you pay $20 or more, you can get all of the games that have been released on Steam so far (that's 1/5 of the usual price). You'll also get DRM-free versions for Windows, but if you run a different operating system, rest assured that most of the games run on ScummVM, so if you run the Windows versions of the game through ScummVM on the platform of your choice, you'll still be getting the same experience.
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In a move that surprised absolutely no one, Telltale's president Kevin Bruner and the creator of The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman, announced The Walking Dead: Season Three at this year's Comic Con. Since Season Two is not even finished yet, nothing was revealed other than the fact that Telltale is working on it. More details will likely come after the current season wraps up.
Chapter Two of The Journey Down, the adventure game inspired by LucasArts classics such as Grim Fandango, is scheduled to release on August 25th. If you pre-order now, it's only $5.99 and you get The Journey Down Chapter One as well (the key is transferable if you already own Chapter One). Half of all pre-order revenue will go to help the Mavuno girl's school project. Find out more about the pre-order deal and see a couple of scenes from the upcoming chapter in the trailer embedded below:
From recording tests with Noah Falstein as Bobbin Threadbare in 1992 to her present work voice directing Broken Age, Khris Brown has played a crucial role in making your favorite Mojo classics talk.
In a new interview with Gamastura, Brown discusses her career, sharing insights she gained from her decades in the field:
In short: know your stuff, be supportive, have no ego, and be ready to laugh. Do not give up after 3 takes. Do give up after 10 takes. We had 27 takes of Indiana Jones saying, "It's a cup full of lava." The actor was exhausted, and we ended up Frankensteining the line anyway (pasting two takes together to create our ideal).
Source: Gamasutra
The latest release of ScummVM, the interpreter that lets you play classic adventure games on modern (and not so modern) systems, is now available. This release adds support for 5 new games: The Neverhood, Mortville Manor, Voyeur, Return to Ringworld, and Chivalry is Not Dead.
In addition, the MT-32 emulator has been updated, an OpenGL backend has been added, many aspects of the GUI have been improved, the AGOS engine has been enhanced, Urban Runner's videos are now less CPU-demanding, tons of bugs have been fixed in dozens of SCI games, the Adlib sound in Loom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade has been made to sound more like the original, and platform portability for the Tony and Tinsel engines has been improved. The Steam versions of the four LucasArts adventures that were released on that platform are now supported as well.
You can pick up the latest version for your platform of choice at the ScummVM homepage.
Another Kickstarter is up for Kaptain Brawe 2, the adventure game with a story by ex-Revolution writer Steve Ince and art by ex-LucasArts artist Bill Tiller. This time they're looking for a smaller amount, so hopefully they'll make their goal this time. So go ahead and back it to help make their goal distance that much shorter.
The penultimate episode of The Walking Dead Season Two is coming out next week. It will be released for PC, Mac, and PSN on PlayStation 3 and on Vita in North America on July 22nd, on PSN on PlayStation 3 and on Vita in Europe and on XBLA on Xbox 360 worldwide on July 23rd, and on iOS on July 24th. Release dates for Android versions haven't been announced yet. As usual, Telltale has also released a trailer for episode 4, which is embedded below.
Your final excuse has just been abolished. Autumn Moon's first (of two) games is now on the one last digital distribution service it had been glaringly missing from. So get on it - aren't you hankering to know what all that fuss was about six years ago?
It seems Bill Tiller had some help getting the game fitted to Steam's specifications. I'm sure many of you share his gratitude:
Buy it for yourself and then a friend! Every million sales make a difference for that sequel's chances.
The Double Fine Action News page has been updated with news that the remastered version of Grim Fandango will will be releasing simultaneously on Windows, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, and Vita.
The final episode of Telltale's episodic series based on the Fables comics, The Wolf Among Us, is going to be released next week. It will be released for PC, Mac, and for PlayStation Network on PlayStation 3 in North America on July 8, on PSN for PS3 in Europe and on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360 worldwide on July 9, and on iOS on July 10th. Release dates for the Android and PlayStation Vita versions haven't been announced yet. The trailer is out now as well, which you can view below:
ScummVM, the program that allows you to run many adventure games from many different developers, such as LucasArts, Sierra, Revolution, Coktel Vision, and more, on modern operating systems, phones, tablets, and consoles, is gearing up for their latest release. That means that they have made quite a few improvements, and added new games, and they need your help to test them to make sure they play as they should.
The new games that will be added in 1.7.0 are Chivalry Is Not Dead, Mortville Manor, Return to Ringworld, The Neverhood, and Voyeur. They have also changed their Adlib player for the DOS floppy versions of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Loom, so they need your help testing these games as well.
If you own any of these games and would like to help out, then fire up ScummVM on your platform of choice and test. Let them know how you made out on the ScummVM forums and if you find any bugs, submit them on the ScummVM bug tracker. The results of testing will be posted on the ScummVM wiki.
In related news, keep an eye on the ScummVM Planet. The Google Summer of Code is going on now, ScummVM is a part of it again, and this year their sister project ResidualVM is involved too (with ScummVM acting as an umbrella for both projects). GSoC students are adding support for Sfinx and The Prince and the Coward to ScummVM, as well as improving support for Escape from Monkey Island and improving the TinyGL renderer in ResidualVM. They've already accomplished a lot on these tasks, so it will be really interesting to see what they manage to get done by the end of the summer.
Well, hell, Double Fine is remastering Grim Fandango -- what can you do to sustain this high?!
First, you can stop whining about it not being released for PC up front. You know it'll be available for non-Sony platforms soon enough.
Then! Then you can bask in nostalgia heaven!
For example, you can check out our various screenshots. Concept art, in-jokes, covers… It's all there. And you probably want to re-watch the trailer and enjoy a G4 special on the game too, right in our video section.
This is probably a good time to re-read Jason in-depth Secret History article too. (LEC might not have acknowledged Grim's existence, but, bizarrely enough, Disney has.)
Word has it that Thrik is resurrecting his Grim Fandango site. You should nag him to get that going.
And the soundtrack! Go listen to the soundtrack!
2 Player Productions has a retrospective too. What the hell?
Feel free to link to more Grim in the comments, or on Twitter. Tweet it to us and we shall retweet.
Kaptain Brawe 2: A Space Travesty is now on Kickstarter. It is an adventure game with a story by Steve Ince (who worked with Revolution on most of its games, and created the So Blonde series) and 2D art by Autumn Moon founder (and Curse of Monkey Island lead artist) Bill Tiller.
This seems like a perfect pairing, since just about everyone would agree that it's always great to see Bill Tiller artwork in adventure games, and Steve Ince has been nominated for multiple awards for his adventure game scripts. So, what are you waiting for? Go ahead and pick a tier to help get the game made.
While we were down, things kept right on going. So, here's what we missed during our downtime:
The Wolf Among Us Episode 4 finished releasing on the already announced platforms (PC/Mac/PSN/XBLA/iOS) and The Walking Dead: Season Two Episode 3 finally received a release date for PS Vita: June 3rd in North America and June 4th in Europe. Also, Telltale announced a bunch of disc versions of their games: PS4 and Xbox One will be getting The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and The Walking Dead: Season Two. There will also be disc versions of The Walking Dead: Season Two and The Wolf Among Us for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. No release dates yet have been announced.
And last but not least, Ron Gilbert's Match 3 puzzle game, Scurvy Scallywags, is now on Android, Tommo and Night Dive released 5 more Humongous Entertainment games on Steam, and bjbennyboy's Telltale Explorer now supports Poker Night 2, Law & Order: Legacies, and The Walking Dead: Season One.
The release dates for the fourth episode of The Wolf Among Us are now known. It will release for PC, Mac, and for PlayStation Network on Playstation 3 in North America on May 27. Then it will release for Xbox Live Arcade on Xbox 360 worldwide on May 28, and for iOS on May 29. Telltale is still waiting to confirm the release date for the PSN in Europe. Telltale also released a new trailer for the episode, that can be viewed below:
Source: Joystiq
After failing on Kickstarter, Trilobyte has regrouped and started up a new crowdfunding campaign for The 7th Guest 3: The Collector, through Crowdtilt. They started the Crowdtilt campaign in December, shortly after the end of the Kickstarter, but did not go public with it until now. This time they are only seeking $65,000. This will fund The 7th Guest 3: The 1st Story, which will be the entire first floor of the mansion.
From there, the campaign will remain open indefinitely, and there will be stretch goals. The first stretch goal will be for development of the second story, and the second stretch goal will be the funding required to fund the full game. So, if you're interested in getting a new chapter of the full motion video horror adventure series, head to the crowdfunding page for The 7th Guest 3: The Collector and pick a pledge tier.
The Humongous releases just keep coming. Steam now has more Humongous Entertainment games for sale: Putt-Putt Travels through Time, Freddi Fish 3: The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell, Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat from Your Head to Your Feet, Spy Fox 3: Operation Ozone, and Putt-Putt and Fatty Bear’s Activity Pack.
There are still 10 games to go, which will release in two batches, on May 29th and June 6th. If you want to get them all now, Steam also has a pack for each franchise as well as a pack for all 28 games, which costs just shy of $100 USD.
The third episode of Telltale's The Walking Dead: Season Two has received release dates. It will be released on Tuesday, May 13th for Windows and Mac, as well as for the PlayStation 3 on Playstation Network in North America. Wednesday, May 14th will see the European Playstation Network release, as well as the worldwide Xbox Live Arcade release on Xbox 360. Then, on Thursday, May 15th, iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch users will get the game on the iTunes App Store. Telltale also released a launch trailer, which you can watch below:
The crowd funded full motion video detective adventure game, Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure, is now available. Along with the original Tex Murphy, series creator Chris Jones, returning in the role, other actors include television, stage, and cinema legend June Lockhart, Kevin Murphy (of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 fame) and Seinfeld's Soup Nazi, Larry Thomas.
The first fifty times someone mocked up their favorite property in the form of an old-school graphic adventure it was kind of cute, and maybe for you it still is. An UK illustrator has made some Monkey Island 1-esque screenshots of what Buffy the Vampire Slayer might have looked like coming out of 1990 LucasArts.
Find it droll, damn you.
Source: The A.V. Club