For the full game list, including the games planned for the future, check out the Museum of Modern Art's post about the exhibit.
It took a while because we had to wipe our tears and all, but here is our review of "No Time Left".
Aaaand, that's it! Read it if you like, though you've probably already finished the game, and our opinion probably won't do much to change your mind either way.
The final episode of Telltale's The Walking Dead, No Time Left, is out now on the PlayStation 3 through the PlayStation Network.
It will be out on European PSN, Xbox 360 through Xbox Live Arcade, PC, Mac, and even iOS tomorrow. Additionally, all five episodes will be released on disc at retail stores for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America on December 5th.
Update (November 21, 2012): It's out everywhere now already, including Telltale's store.So maybe they're not there yet, but Telltale Games, which has doubled in size in the last two years, is growing so big that their building literally can't contain it.
Telltale Games in October signed a five-plus-year lease for 22,000 square feet of offices formerly occupied by San Rafael-based design software developer Autodesk on the fourth floor of Marin Executive Center at 4000 Civic Center Dr. in north San Rafael. That nearly doubles the size of Telltale’s studio, currently located on the east side of the city.
“We’ve maxed out where we’re at,” said Dan Connors, chief executive officer and co-founder. “Civic Center will give us room we need to grow our team and take on more projects on a yearly basis.”
Telltale plans to move into its new home in March or April. The new studio will be able to accommodate 160 employees and satisfy company growth plans for the next few years, he said. The company plans to ramp up the staff in 2013.
The full article recounts the pretty remarkable and continued story of success that is the eight year old studio. Also: wow.
Source: North Bay Business Journal
There are three games by Mojo-related companies that are soon to be released. One has a firm release date. That one is the final episode of The Walking Dead, which will be released on November 20th for PlayStation Network in North America and on November 21st for XBLA, PSN in Europe, and iOS.
The next game that's coming very soon is Double Fine's Kinect Party, which according to True Achievements, now has a placeholder page on Xbox.com with screenshots and cover art (although they didn't reveal the url of the placeholder page, they did post the aforementioned images at their site).
The third incoming game is another Double Fine title: the free-to-play iOS game Middle Manager of Justice, which was featured as a recommended download for iOS in this months Game Informer (so either the editors of the magazine are just wishful thinkers, or the game is coming out soon).
GOG.com, the DRM-free digital game store, is having a 80% off sale this weekend on all of the games by Telltale Games that are part of their catalog. The games on sale are Sam & Max Save the World ($5.99 USD), Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space ($5.99 USD), Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse ($6.99 USD), Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures ($3.99 USD), Back to the Future: The Game ($4.99 USD), and Tales of Monkey Island ($6.99 USD).
As is the norm with iOS releases of their games, Telltale has not updated their blog about it, but the iOS version of The Walking Dead is finally caught up to the other versions. Episode 4 was released for iOS yesterday (and the iOS version of episode 3 was released on October 18th). The game can be purchased in a multipack or as a single episode inside of the application.
For those of you that haven't purchased Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse (is there even anyone reading Mojo that hasn't?) or for those of you who want to buy the game cheaply a second time to get it on Steam, the Indie Royale Halloween Bundle has it and four more games (Home, Pathologic, MacGuffin's Curse, and Evil Quest) for the minimum low, low price of less than $5 USD.
The Walking Dead is coming out on retail disc for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on the 4th of December in North America. IGN has a picture of the retail box, as well as information about a GameStop exclusive bundle that features exclusive cover art by Charlie Adlard (the artist on The Walking Dead comics), and includes The Walking Dead Compendium One which also features the exclusive cover art on its cover. The standard version will retail for $29.99 USD and the Collector's Edition will retail for $69.99 USD.
The article also has a confirmation that the fifth episode of The Walking Dead will be released digitally in November.
In other Telltale news, with The Walking Dead winding down Telltale is finally discussing Fables. There's no new news, but last week at the New York Comic Con, Telltale re-announced their upcoming Fables game. With The Walking Dead being finalized in November, it would be nice if the first episode of Fables could be released this December to tie in with the comic's tenth anniversary.
It may look like it, but we haven't completely forgotten our reviewing duties. elTee has returned with a review of The Walking Dead's latest episodes: Long Road Ahead and Around Every Corner!
What are you still reading this for? Go check out the review.
Three Telltale games are included in the bundle: Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and Jurassic Park: The Game, all of which are through Steam.
The other games and applications in the bundle are: Artboard, Bejeweled 3 (through Steam), Courier, DiscTools Pro, Evernote, HDRtist, Radium, and Scriviner. Additionally, Firetask will unlock for all bundle owners after 25,000 bundles are sold, and Bioshock 2 and Painter Lite will unlock after an unrevealed amount of bundles are sold.
The release dates for The Walking Dead episode 4: Around Every Corner have been announced. It's coming out in North America on PSN later today. Then, tomorrow, it will be coming out on North American XBLA, and on PC and Mac worldwide.
Release dates for the European market have not yet been announced, nor have release dates for episode 3 or episode 4 for iPad. Not much is known about episode 5 either at this point, but since the entire series is coming out on retail in North America on the 4th of December, the fifth episode will be out sometime before that.
Update: The fourth episode is now out on PC, Mac, and XBLA. Early reports say this is the episode where your previous choices come into play, meaning that the big choice in episode one is no longer the only choice that meaningfully effects gameplay. This is also the episode where the winner of the contest has a character modeled after them who dies and later becomes one of the undead. The runner-up winners are members of the zombie hoarde. So if you won, keep an eye out for yourself. :)
A few months ago, Telltale joined the DRM-free movement at GOG.com with 3 of their best series, Sam & Max Save The World, Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, and Tales of Monkey Island.
Now two more Telltale series are available DRM-free on GOG.com: Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse and Back to the Future: The Game.
Each of these releases contain bonus features, like the soundtracks of the first two Sam & Max seasons (still no Season Three soundtrack, not even in digital form), developer commentaries, animated shorts (Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions and an unknown short with Season Three - perhaps Our Bewildering Universe?), and more.
IGN's Up At Noon show has the premiere of the trailer for The Walking Dead episode 4 along with an interview with the writer of the episode, Gary Whitta. Skip ahead in the video to the 10 minute and 25 second mark to view The Walking Dead portion of the show.
Here's something to wash away the Monday blues: George Kitchen, known on YouTube as wdrpgwd - who you may remember as the person who did those lovely Tales of Monkey Island music remixes from three years ago - has been putting more time and effort into, well, making more remixes for Tales of Monkey Island. I recommend listening to the entire set, but will link you to my personal favourite song, a groovy number from "Lair of the Leviathan". Check-out wdrpgwd's channel for more, including remixes from Monkey Island 2, or download the albums of available songs off of MediaFire, here and here, though beware of pop-up ads appearing in the latter two links.
Source: YouTube
There's few things that Detective Inspector Hector enjoys more than drinking down enough pints to get himself sloshed. So, it's only fitting that The Indie Royale Oktoberfest Bundle includes the Straandlooper developed and Telltale published adventure game series Hector: Badge of Carnage.
You can pay whatever you want for the bundle as long as you meet the minimum price (currently just over $5.50 USD). The other games in the bundle include Chime, Adventures of Shuggy, Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble!, The Network, and the bonus game The Witch's Yarn. If you pay more than $8.00 USD, you will also get the music albums Calm Your Nerves and Chip unDeath.
Gaming Examiner has a glimpse of the first screenshot of The Walking Dead episode 4. They also have a statement, direct from Telltale, that the episode will be launching "very soon this October".
Telltale also has a video of their Walking Dead presense up at PAX, as well as a link to the a video of the complete PAX panel at the end of the video.
Thanks to a tweet on Telltale's Telltale's official Twitter, we now know The Walking Dead will be complete, barring any unforeseen circumstances, by the end of the year, since it will be coming to retail disc on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on the 4th of December.
Release dates for the retail version of the game in Europe have not yet been announced.
There's been a bit of news of the fluff variety, so like last month, I'm going to include all the tidbits in one post.
The development period for Telltale's The Walking Dead is brisker than usual for the series, as Nick Herman updated his twitter with news that the episode 4 playtest has already been completed.
On the subject of Telltale, a rumor that a second season of Back to the Future: The Game is coming comes straight from Christopher Lloyd, who announced at the Fan Expo in Canada that he's once again playing Doc Brown in an upcoming game in the series.
Finally, over at Double Fine, the lead artist of Middle Manager of Justice, Mark Hamer, posted about the art of the game, including some concept art. Along with this comes the news that this game started out as one of the Amnesia Fortnight titles which was refined from it's original seriousness and rigidity into the quirky title that it is today (or will be when it's released shortly).
As you may know, Sam & Max turn a quarter of a century old this year, and Telltale is celebrating with various discount offers on their three seasons across the various platforms they've made their way to over time.
Telltale CEO Dan Connors said "Steve Purcell created something unique, funny and enduring that continues to grab new fans every single year; now's the perfect time for gamers to see what all the fuss is about and for current fans to complete their collections with these special offers."
"Sam & Max have always had a happy home at Telltale", said creator Steve Purcell. "They just "get" what Sam & Max is about and so these games are the perfect place to enter their world. It's wonderful and gratifying that after 25 years, Sam & Max continue to make people happy and I'm excited that these offers provide gamers with an opportunity to play the marvelously inventive games that Telltale made. Here's to another 25 years!"
Honestly, this is a rather quiet way to commemorate the characters' 25th year of existence (and would it kill LEC to throw Hit the Road up on Steam?), but given that Purcell was recently canvassing for ideas about their future on his blog as well as expressing desires to see the duo adapted to other mediums, we may well be experiencing the calm before a tempest of Freelance Police mayhem in the upcoming years.
Source: Game N Guide