A few Telltale forumites observed that, unlike previous Telltale seasons, the PC/Mac release of Law & Order: Legacy episodes did not come with information about the traditional end-of-season DVD. Sure enough, customer service rep Michael Parks replied with this:
While this may be something that changes in the future, as of right now, there are no plans to release a DVD at the end of the season.
Source: Telltale forums
It's being reported that Kalypso Media, which was scheduled to publish retail versions of Jurassic Park: The Game for PC and Xbox 360 on February 24th, will be dropping the Xbox version.
This probably means that whatever success that Jurassic Park has enjoyed has primarily been through digital distribution.
Source: CVG
iPad owners can finally play "The Depths", the third episode of Jurassic Park: The Game, as it is now available at the iTunes store.
The rest of the platforms that Jurassic Park: The Game runs on received all of the episodes at once, but Telltale decided to release the iPad version on their usual monthly schedule of one episode per month. iPad users can stop worrying about playing catch up soon though. This is the penultimate episode, meaning only one episode still remains.
Sam & Max is hitting iOS. No no, don't be silly, we're not finally seeing the completion of The Devil's Playhouse nearly two years later, but rather episode one of Beyond Time and Space.
"What makes this version so special?!", you may cry. Well, there's a "Whack-da-Ratz" competitive minigame... And there's a soundboard... Soundboards are fun, right?
Really, though, Beyond Time and Space was a great season, so pick it up if you want to enjoy it on your favorite iOS device. It'll be the best $7 you ever spent.
In case you didn't catch this: Law & Order: Legacies is now available for the PC and Mac. The first episodes are, of course, already out on iOS. So hey. Choices!
Having played a bit of the first episode, I can say it's not a bad game, if you don't mind rather... simplistic... game mechanisms. We'll have a review soon. (-Ish.)
But no, seriously, it doesn't look too bad, actually. Check out TTG's write-up, and learn that it's hitting iOS first -- as an universal app, which is nice -- before making its way to PC and Mac.
There's even a video!
JP Update: It's out now on iPhone and iPad. DUN DUN!
Source: App Store
Guest reviewer Max finally managed to get his iPad back from his pet edmontonia so he could finish his review of Jurassic Park: The Game Episode 1 for us!
Kalypso Media Group, a global apublisher of award-winning PC and console games, today announced an agreement with Telltale Games,the leading independent digital publisher and developer of episodic interactive entertainment, to distribute retail versions of Jurassic Park : The Game across European and many export territories such as Australia, South Africa and Far East Asia. Developed through a publishing agreement with Universal Partnerships & Licensing, Telltale's new game based on Jurassic Park will be available for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC in Q1 2012.
Source: Telltale Blog
Better late than never. Here's our review of all three episodes of Strandlooper and Telltale's trilogy Hector: Badge of Carnage by guest reviewer Igor Hardy. He runs A Hardy Developer’s Journal and has worked on the free adventure game Snakes of Avalon, so check them out!
Telltale CEO Dan Connors started a thread over on the Telltale forums yesterday, making himself available for questions in the wake of the company's rather eventful week. Folks have been eager to take advantage and some interesting responses have resulted. It's my obligation to reprint the quotes pertaining to the future of Sam & Max and Monkey Island, which was of course a question posed.
Right now we aren't working on either but it would be much easier for us to do something with Sam and Max then Monkey at this point. We are working on the plan for next year now so we will be talking about.
I wish we had the rights to do more Monkey but we don't. Right now what I gather is LA is focused on building AAA titles internally but honestly we don't talk much these days.
He seems to still be checking the thread, so what about you? Is there something that you need to ask Dan?
Source: Telltale forums
Jurassic Park hasn't fared supremely well with mainstream reviewers, but, as reported by The Escapist, Telltale's employees aren't shy about showing their love for the game.
Apparently some perfect user scores showed up on Metacritic, accompanied by reviews calling Jurassic Park the best thing to have happened to anybody ever. Long story short: The reviewers were -- dam dam dam! -- Telltale employees. Telltale employees who didn't identify themselves as such.
So. There's some sort of statement about it all from Telltale in the aforementioned article, but it's obvious to most of us that it's in bad form for developers to review their own games, particularly when they don't identify themselves as employees of the company.
Sad, really, and it doesn't really help piquing people's interest in the game.
Source: The Escapist
Today, finally, is the release day for Jurassic Park: The Game! Breaking tradition, the four episodes that constitute the game are all available at once. Grab Jurassic Park for PC or Mac here, for iPad via the Apple Store, for Playstation 3 via the PSN, or for Xbox 360 from your local retailer. Those last two are going to be true only if you're in North America, but they will be true for other territories "soon," along with a retail PC release that North America doesn't appear to be getting.
Anyway, go play the game! Hurry along now, before I'm forced to tell everybody on Reddit about that time you did that thing.
Source: Telltale Store
A man going by the handle "boomerjinks" is going around various places on the internet, posting about how Telltale Games have mishandled his "Jurassic Park Jeep". Boomerjinks - who builds these Jurassic Park Jeep replicas himself - apparently lent Telltale one such replica for their booth at PAX. When it came back, it was damaged. A little bit of detective work apparently traces this error back to Telltale.
Boomerjinks posted more on the story, and some photographic evidence, in this Reddit thread. He posted much the same on NeoGAF.
Hmm! What do you think, people of Mojo?
Update: Telltale CCO and co-founder Kevin Bruner responds. With some class, I think.
Source: Reddit
The first episode of the oddly titled Monkey Island Tales -- Tales of Monkey Island for the rest of us -- is now available for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Telltale recommends at least the 3GS to play it, though if history has taught us anything, the iPhone 4 will make it a whole lot more satisfying.
Download it at the App Store because your OCD will force you to get it for every platform possible.
Source: Telltale Blog
Telltale has made the deluxe edition of Jurassic Park: The Game available for pre-order from their web shop for $39.99, which is $10 off regular price.
The following is included in the deluxe edition:
The game is set for release on November 15th and any buyers of the deluxe edition can also download it from the website.
Source: Telltale Games blog
The retail release of Back to the Future: The Game for the Wii and Playstation 3 happened quietly yesterday. Both versions are retailing for $19.99 and are apparently hard to come by outside of Gamestop at the moment.
Man, how refreshing is it for us to be one day late on news?
Telltale just relaunched the official site for Jurassic Park: The Game, which is replete with stuff, things, and whatnots, but mostly just looks cooler.
Oh, and if you're looking to catch up on all the latest press coverage for Jurassic Park, you could always turn to Telltale's convenient roundup.
Sam and Max: Beyond Time and Space - or Season Two, as it was once known - will be available on the PSN Store tomorrow. (Or today, for those of you who live in the futuristic world of Far East Asia.*) It's available for $19.99, or $29.99 for those of you who wish to get it packed with Sam and Max: The Devil's Playhouse. More here.
Personally, I recommend getting the game - or games, if you own neither. They're funny, well-realized gems, and can be wonderfully brilliant at times. They are perhaps superior to Hit the Road, and they are definitely superior to Sam and Max Save the World (or "Season One" for you purists). You probably don't want to miss out. I'm happy I didn't.
(*Not that you can buy the game, Far East Asians. It's going to be available in North America only. Power to the border-destroying internet, and all that.)
Source: Playstation Blog
In an interview with Dan Connors, Gamasutra learns that Telltale has found considerable success with the iPad, with Connors revealing that as of last month, a staggering 30% of the studio's monthly revenue came from iOS devices.
As a result, the company continues to increase staff (they're north of 115 now) and will dedicate "considerable resources" to Apple platforms:
This November, when the first episode of Jurassic Park is released, the iPad will be included in that list of platforms. And before the end of the year, the company will release another 13 iPad titles, including Sam & Max Beyond Time & Space and the first cases in Telltale's Law & Order game.
That there is the first acknowledgment in a long while of the Law & Order series. While surely the least exciting of the several licenses Telltale announced this year amongst this particular crowd, there were nonetheless some concerns about the project's status in light of the cancellation of Law & Order: Los Angeles, the particular series in the TV franchise that Telltale's treatment is based on. Obviously, fans of the series should consider their fears allayed.
The article goes on to discuss the potential of the Google and Amazon tablet devices while assuring fans the Telltale's other platforms (meaning PC and consoles) will not be neglected as a side effect of the aggressive love affair with iOS. But I shouldn't give everything away.
Source: Gamasutra