The International House of Mojo

Back to the Future: The Game will be coming to retail in European countries, thanks to a deal Telltale reached with publisher Deep Silver. This is Telltale's biggest selling game so far, so it's highly unlikely that it will suffer the same fate as the planned European retail release of Jurassic Park.

As is usual with the retail versions of Telltale's titles, it will include all 5 games. It is set to release for Wii and PlayStation 3, and on PC in some territories in the first quarter of this year.

Source: Adventure Gamers

The Law & Order: Legacies universal app which includes Episode 1: Revenge is now free for a limited time for iOS users.

The remaining 6 episodes are available in a multi-pack from within the universal app for $12.99 or individually for $2.99. Episodes 1, 2, 3, and 4 are available now. Episode 5 is scheduled to be released on iOS later this month. Episodes 6 and 7 will be released at an as-of-yet unannounced date.

Law & Order: Legacies is also available for the PC and Mac, although there's no sale there. The PC and Mac version is only available in the multi-pack which is available at The Telltale Store for $19.99. Only episodes 1, 2, and 3 are available to computer users. There is no word yet on when episodes 4 and 5 will be released on PC and Mac.

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:

That's kind of interesting simply because I think it's a first. Is this a new trend, or does Telltale simply figure that Law & Order fans won't miss the perk of a collector's disc as much a fans of more geeky licenses (aka all their others) would?

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!

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!

Check it out!

Jurassic Park: The Game is spreading to European retail next year for Xbox 360 and Windows, courtesy of Kalypso Media: The approving cries from Far East Asia are particularly deafening.

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.

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.

Jurassic Park: The Game has gone gold, and IGN is celebrating the release next month with this behind-the-scenes video:

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:

• All four episodes of Jurassic Park: The Game for PC/Mac on disc
• A replica InGen staff ID badge as seen in the movie and game
• A replica of the movie brochure/map, updated to reflect what you'll see in the game
• A replica Jurassic Park staff patch (yes, it's wearable)
• An InGen Field Guide, packed to the brim with content welcoming you to the park
• Exclusive Limited Edition Packaging
• Exclusive access to digital content including the game soundtrack and behind the scenes videos

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.