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Monkey Island 2: Special Edition On Its Way? (Rumour)
March 8, 2010
We could be about to see an announcement from Lucasarts on the re-release of Monkey Island 2. Following on from the success that Lucasarts had from re-releasing the first Monkey Island: Special Edition, why would they not do it for the second? Which was arguably a better game?
Of course if they did re-release the second of Guybrush Threepwood’s adventures, I sure it would get a graphical overhaul as well as audio for the characters in the game.
I’m a big fan of Monkey Island of have them all set on my shelf including the latest Tales of Monkey Island, so to get to play Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge with better visuals sounds like fun to me.
Continue reading »Free Tales Of Monkey Island – Episode 1!
September 18, 2009
The Tales of Monkey Island episodic release started a couple of months back for PC and via WiiWare (currently we’ve had 2 of 5 episodes released). Now for a limited time only, the first episode will be completely free as of midnight tonight!
Why I hear you ask? Well it’s to celebrate this year’s ‘Talk Like a Pirate Day! Aaaarrr mateys!! All you need to do is register over at the Telltale Games website and you’ll receive a reminder email letting you know when you can download it.
Continue reading »LucasArts Announce Classic Game Re-Releases Via Steam
July 7, 2009
As you can probably tell from reading the Tales of Monkey Island preview I wrote the other day, I’m eagerly awaiting the release of the first chapter/episode of this five part series of Monkey Island goodness, and then this morning I read about how and when we can expect to see the Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition released – oh yeah and just a bunch of other games too!
‘Tales of Monkey Island’ Preview
July 5, 2009
The time has nearly arrived for the first of the new Monkey Island episodic adventures featuring everyone’s favourite pirate; no not Captain Jack Sparrow, Guybrush Threepwood of course!
The Tales of Monkey Island will be launched with the first chapter, “The Launch of the Screaming Narwal” on the 7th July 2009! I for one am eagerly awaiting the chance to return to this beloved franchise which will see Guybrush a Voodoo Pox that is infecting people across the islands of The Caribbean, including himself!
Continue reading »Tales of Monkey Island – Guybrush Threepwood Sets Sail Again!
June 4, 2009
We recently brought you news of a new and revitalised Monkey Island Special Edition game, but now we have even more news to bubble your bootlegger blood. Telltale Games have teamed up with Lucas Arts to bring you a brand new swashbuckling adventure called Tales of Monkey Island, available in five episodes available to download each month – the first of which shall be released on July 7th for PC and Nintendo WiiWare!
The good news is that we’ll all be getting more Guybrush than we can handle this summer – I know I’ve never shied away from making him shiver my timber at my own beck and call. The bad news is that if you finish your latest installment within a week, ye’ll be three sheets to the wind fer three whole weeks befor ye can grab some more of that ol’ booty!
Continue reading »The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
June 2, 2009
The Secret of Monkey Island franchise is one of my all time favourite gaming series which I started first started playing way back in the day on my trusty Commodore Amiga, the original was such a great game – in between all the floppy disk swaps!
Well now Lucasarts have brought back what must be their premiere adventure gaming franchise in the form of The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition! The guys over at Lucasarts (many of which played the original and it was a driving force for them wanting to make games) have basically taken the original game, which was admittedly looking very long in the tooth now that it’s almost 20 years old and re-made it for the current generation gaming systems.
Continue reading »Commodore Computers Are Back!
March 13, 2007
I remember being rather young when I first got a Commodore 64 with its squealing cassette player that you left loading a game for 15mins or so while you went and did something more interesting.
I then moved onto the Amigas, firstly the A500 (it had a floppy drive and everything!), I remember losing many night’s sleep to Civilization – one of the best games of all time! Later came my more modern-looking (it seemed it at the time at least) A1200 with an internal hard disk – it certainly made playing Secret of Monkey Island 2 with its 12 or so floppy disks a bit easier going!
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