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Accelerate your DeLorean up to 88 mph* and go download Telltale's Back to the Future Episode 1: It's About Time (provided you shelled out the money for it previously).

For those who haven't bought it, it's only $24.95 (USD)** for all five episodes on the store.

*142 km/h for the rest of the world

**Considering the US dollar value it's probably like 0.01€, but you should just look it up

UPDATE: Zaarin's lightning quick haxx0rz skillz allowed him to post mere seconds before me.

Source: Telltale Games

So, why are you reading this?

Go play.

Source: Telltale Games

The madness of Steam's wallet-emptying Holiday Sale is now upon us! Let's check out the games you should be interested in.

1. 50% OFF The LucasArts Catalogue. Tightly doesn't include The Force Unleashed II. You'd think they actually didn't want the game to sell.

2. 73% OFF The Telltale Holiday Pack. Includes Sam & Max Seasons 2 and 3, Puzzle Agent and Poker Night. Not sure what makes them holiday games (barring Ice Station Santa and the fact that there's a lot of snow in Puzzle Agent), but it's a good deal nonetheless!

3. 33% OFF DeathSpank and 25% OFF DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue. These games are already great for the price (they're huge and lots of fun), now they're on sale despite only being out recently (TOV only came out three weeks ago!). THAT is how you get people to buy your new game, LucasArts.

4. 90% OFF The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom. That's 39-49 pence for a great puzzle game. What's this got to do with us? It's a storybook puzzler similar to LucasArts' Lucidity, and reportedly (by us, though I can't find it now) the teams of both games maintained a close relationship throughout development.

5. 50% OFF Time Gentlemen, Please + Ben There, Dan That. Two genuinely funny comedic adventures purposefully done in the style of LucasArts adventures, with a Use Partner gameplay mechanic lovingly ripped off from Sam & Max Hit The Road. Buy. The first game's free if you want to try it first though. The second game has Nazi robot dinosaurs.

6. 50% OFF Mata Hari. An adventure made with assistance from the Fate of Atlantis Dream Team of Hal Barwood and Noah Falstein. Flawed, but good for this price.

7. 50% OFF Jolly Rover. Another great comedy adventure that's obviously strongly influenced by (and with plenty of references to) LucasArts, specifically Monkey Island. If you're pining for the days of quality funny adventures from LucasArts (if not, why are you reading this site?), Jolly Rover and Time Gentlemen Please are essential purchases.

BONUS SALE: While it's not part of the Steam sale, seeing as Autumn Moon or their publisher have an irrational fear of hot water vapour, A Vampyre Story is £7.49/$9.99 at Games For Windows.

Source: Steam

Back to the Future: The Game is coming in two days and Telltale has released five more sceenshots which you can find over here.

Jinn over at Pixel Joint has also imagined how the game would have looked in LucasArts' SCUMM engine.

Well, tough.

You remember that free episode of Back To The Future Telltale were giving out? If you went for that and were expecting to play it the same time as regular buying folks on the 22nd, I've got some bad news: according to the latest issue of The Telltale Interloper (it should be in your email box now if you subscribe) the free episode won't be available until February.

Hopefully there will still be a demo of the first episode next week for those still undecided about the game.

But yes, we're back up again... For now.

Meanwhile, the first episode of Back to the Future, "It's About Time," is set to launch on December 22nd.

And if you're still looking to buy more Tales of Monkey Island, PC retail copies are apparently going to hit UK, Australia, New Zealand and Europe on March 25th with "bonus content and items" bundled. Woo!

Let's never talk about this downtime again.

... confused iPad owners ask, "Where the hell are the four remaining episodes of Sam & Max?"

It's kind of an odd move, isn't it? After only releasing one episode of The Devil's Playhouse, what is to suggest that the same won't happen with Tales of Monkey Island?

Anyway, if you're a sucker like me, you can download "Launch of the Screaming Narwhal" from iTunes for $6.99, then keep your fingers crossed that the four remaining episodes will be released also. Odds are dim if history is anything to go by, although TTG claims we'll see more next year.

(Oh, also only one episode of Wallace & Gromit is available on the iPad. Is this all part of... )

At least, mine did. Got the email today.

And that, my friend, is news.

Want some more Back to the Future gameplay footage? Of course you do! Run over to the TTG blog for some Doc Brown goodness, as well as further interviews with Christopher Lloyd, Bob Gale and Dennis Lenart.

I said run!

Telltale Games have a Wiiware game giveaway, similar to ones they've run a few times in the past.  The free episode is Tales of Monkey Island – Lair of the Leviathan (the 3rd episode of the season). 

There is a short survey to fill out to qualify, and it's for North American Wii owners only.

surveymonkey.com/s/telltalesurvey

Quantities are limited, so be in quick. Also, for obvious reasons your Wii must be connected to Internet (Wii Shop Channel) in order to redeem the free game.

Source: Telltale Games

Telltale have updated their Back To The Future website at last, with Character and Episode pages now up.

On the character pages you can look at concept art, read a short bio (for character and actor), and even listen to voice clips. Characters currently available are Marty, Doc, George McFly, and for the first time, Biff! Sadly Tannen(s) will not be voiced by the iconic Tom Wilson, instead Telltale veteran with a great name Kid Beyond will be doing the voice. There's at least one other character still to be revealed - we haven't had a woman yet, so Jennifer, Clara or Lorraine perhaps?

Also excitingly on the site are short plot synopses for each of the five episodes! I won't post them here in case anyone wants to remain unspoiled (plus it's a flash site so I can't just copy and paste them like the lazy git I am), but episodes 2 and 4 do contain concept art of two other characters - mafia gang boss Kid Tannen and a mysterious woman (Clara?).

Go see! Allons-y! (sorry, wrong time traveller)

UPDATE: There's also a new interview up at GameTrailers focusing on story and gameplay! Haven't seen it myself yet, but it seems like it detail just how the game is going to play, which is something a lot of people (myself included) have been wondering.

Source: Telltale

Telltale tells us Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is heading to PSN (December 21st) and Mac (soon!). That's great, really, as it's now available for pretty much every major gaming platform.

Other than the 360 that is.

And not to get too Tingler here, but it'd be nice to see TTG release some more games for that platform too. I'd buy 'em!

If you pre-ordered the Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse DVD -- and if you didn't the terrorists have won -- you will receive the goods shortly.

While you wait, enjoy some bleep-filled outtakes that also will be seen on the disc.

Sorry, I meant Back To The Future Trailer! Make like a tree, and go and see it right now!

What, you want me to post it right here? Oh, all right, if you insist.

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Source: GameTrailers

Using Benny's newly updated and super-handy Telltale Speech Extractor, some mischievous rascals decided to give Poker Night at the Inventory a workout and apparently stumbled upon some evidence that Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People might be getting ported to Playstation and the iPad.

Don't tell Mom.

Source: Telltale forums

Telltale’s latest Pilot Program title is a hark back to their first ever game, the pleasant Telltale Texas Hold ‘Em, except this time you’ll be playing against four famous gaming and internet characters who have never shared the screen before now (except the Heavy wearing Max’s head in Team Fortress 2 of course).

We dutifully review it within just a week of its release! Wow!

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In a desperate attempt to grab headline space on Mixnmojo after a rush of not-Telltale news (see some Double Fine and Deathspank-related announcements below), Telltale Games has released four screenshots of their upcoming Back to the Future game on IGN. See Doc, Marty and a conversation tree. Go. Click there. See. We don't care. Mojo owns IGN, according to my colleagues, though they didn't clarify whether it owned it in the business sense of the word. We probably make all the ad money anyways.

Source: IGN (again)

Poker Night at the Inventory is out on Steam and from Telltale's site. Those who own it from Telltale can also play on Steam. Enjoy!

Two new BTTF interviews to report. The first is this Italian one, the Google translated version being here.

Second is an interview with AJ LoCascio, the voice of Marty, by Alternative Magazine Online. Can its brevity be forgiven by its closing promise of more to come?

Sometimes news is succinct.

Source: Telltale Blog