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... and Monkey Island Tales 2 HD through Monkey Island Tales 5 HD (rearrange!) will be available tomorrow. (Though not for free.) Run and download and speculate wildly about the crazy titles.
GameSpot's latest episode of Sound Byte features a Q&A with AJ Locascio who voices Marty McFly in Back to the Future: The Game:
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Telltale wants to know a few things about your gaming habits and in return, they're giving away free copies of episode four and five of Tales of Monkey Island on WiiWare. Just follow this link to answer their questions and get your free episodes!
Update: This is only for Canadian and USA gamers, of course.
It only took, what, six months, but Pocket Gamer has word that "The Siege of Spinner Cay" is heading to the iPad like right now. Apparently New Zealanders should already have it, so it's assumable lesser markets won't be far behind.
Monkey Island Tales 2 HD (as we all know it as) should cost around $7/£4/€6.
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... and therefore they wrote up a preview of Puzzle Agent 2.
While we might have turned Telltale's franchise-obsession into kind of a punchline here, this is a game that has some of us excited. Seeing that Chuck Jordan -- the lead behind The Devil's Playhouse -- wrote the script based on a story by Graham Annable, Sean Vanaman, and the Jake Rodkin, this has the making of a good sequel.
Go read, damn it!
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As promised, both Jurassic Park and The Walking Dead were accounted for during Telltale's E3 presence. Naturally, there was considerably more to show off with regard to the Universal license, a non-playable demo of which was on display for attendees. Here's some video coverage of the presentation by G4, thrown to by a lady with seventy-five percent of a shirt.
In the case of The Walking Dead, Telltale didn't seem to have much more than some concept art and a bit of information on their two main characters, neither of which appear in the comics: an escaped convict named Lee Everett and seven-year-old girl he meets up with named Clementine. The best report I found on the project was this video interview with an unfamiliar Telltale face identified only as "Rich," which among other things touches a bit on how the games may connect with the source material:
Global superpower Telltale Games continues its growth with news that it just secured $7 million in private investment - not too shabby for a studio founded on the vision of an unproven model for games that have almost exclusively been, for goodness sake, straight-up graphic adventures.
Dan Connors states that the financing will be used to "aggressively launch" its announced high-profile franchises simultaneously on multiple release platforms, although one hopes that at least a few of the zeroes at the now seven year old company's disposal may go toward an original IP to keep Puzzle Agent company.
There's another Telltale-related bit of news worth mentioning. About a month ago, former Mojo staffer and present Telltale programmer Andrew Langley (aka telarium) Tweeted that he would be directing his first Telltale episode, and is thus now eligible for the distinction already attained by Jake, namely: One Prolific Bastard.
Source: Gamasutra
Telltale has set the release date for Puzzle Agent 2 to June 30th. The sequel to last year's Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent (reviewed by Mojo here) will see Nelson encounter new puzzles as he continues his investigations. Along with the release date, Telltale has opened up their store for pre-orders and if you order Puzzle Agent 2 before release, you will get the original for free. Just follow this link.
Can't wait for the 30th? Telltale is also running a contest where five people get the game two weeks early by writing funny captions to some pictures from the game. Full details on how to participate in the contest can be found in this blog post.
Telltale also released a teaser earlier this year which you can view below:
They think they're the developers behind the Hector games, that's who, and we took the time to ask them some further questions.
What?
You can see one of his two characters in this clip.
The final episode drops for PC & Mac on June 23rd. Also Episode 1 is Free on the iPad until July 31.
Update: Good on you Telltale, though a bit odd that this didn't all come together earlier in the series.
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(Thanks to Threepwood4Life from the forums for this news story. Again.)
Telltale's Sam and Max games are on sale on Steam. It's a 66% reduction off the original prices, which means Season One and Season Two go for $10.20 individually, The Devil's Playhouse for $11.20, or all three for $17.00.
A bargain. I know this is blasphemy to some, but I've come to believe The Devil's Playhouse tops even nostalgia-soaked Hit the Road. It is (in my opinion) destined to be regarded as a classic, and - unless you're one of those people who can't play a Sam and Max game that doesn't have some song in it or an overdose of returning characters - you shouldn't miss out on it, especially now.
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If you're hankerin' for longer, more professional gaming podcasts, then perhaps you should point your ears to the PC Gamer US Podcast #273.
This week their special guest is Chuck "Not the Plant or the Country" Jordan, LucasArts and Telltale adventure-game-veteran:
This week their special guest is Chuck "Not the Plant or the Country" Jordan, LucasArts and Telltale adventure-game-veteran:
We talk with Jordan about his history with LucasArts and Telltale and ask him all of our adventure-game questions. He also helps us tackle the week’s big news stories, like ArmA III being announced and Guild Wars 2?s new profession!
Remember how LucasArts teased us with Sam & Max: Freelance Police and rapidly made us go from ":-D" to ":-(" and then to ">:-("? Of course you do, and a crazy time it was.
With three seasons of Sam & Max now available from Telltale, it might be time to take a look at what could have been. Our ancient preview is once again available, as is our angry manifesto. The latter has been padded with some crazy hate-art from the gone but never (never!) forgotten Wibble-Wobble Hatstand.
One that might be a bit more obscure is our Freelance Police retrospective, now imaginatively (re-)titled " The Kinda, Sorta, But Not Really Secret History of Sam & Max: Freelance Police." In it we take a look at the history of the game, and show some of the test-animations from the game. Remember the Max butt-shave? If not, you should probably revisit it.
So yes, roll back in time, and think what could have been.
Posting only one review in a day is so 2009, therefore we decided to post a "Double Visions" review. Are there more puzzles to see than in the previous Back to the Future game? Are bugs still a problem? You could play the game yourself, but why bother when we do it for you?
The fourth and penultimate episode of Telltale's Back To The Future is totally now available. Yep, that's two games in one week for Telltale. Lucky that dinosaur one got pushed back otherwise there would've been three, and I don't think the world's ready for that much Telltale.
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