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News from Thursday, July 02, 2009 |
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Why don't you interview Tim Schafer, since you're so damn good at it? (Update: We're live!) Posted by Kroms | Source: Eurogamer | Comments: 11 |
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Here's something fun for the sane among you Tim Schafer fanatics: tomorrow, July 2nd, at 4PM BST (British Summer Time), you will get to submit some Brütal Legend/life and philosophy-related questions to Tim Schafer, courtesy of the nice chaps over at Eurogamer. Unfortunately for the crazier among you, there'll be a moderator who'll pick the questions that Mr. Schafer's asked.
It all goes down tomorrow, in this many hours (bookmark that site, it's incredibly useful). 100 Mojo Cookie Pirate points* to the first person who makes him laugh. *points not actually worth anything, possibly non-existant. Update: It's live! Don't forget to register and submit your questions! Go go go! |
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Latest headlines from the Mojo hosted site community: 
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 Brütal Legend - Wii version is probably off the cardsHighLand Productions - New orchestral remix from Day of the TentacleIndyJones.net - Staff of Kings all platforms review now up!Tales of MI.net - ToMI Gameplay Videos! |
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Move over, David Attenborough Posted by Kroms | Comments: 11 |
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You should check-out this somewhat spoilerific Brütal Legend walkthrough, narrated by Tim Schafer.
Part One, Two. Don't forget to submit your questions to Mr. Schafer in a few hours. |
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News from Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
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North American Mata Hari coming soon and coming cheap? Posted by Jason | Comments: 5 |
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Although the North American release of Mata Hari was finally and thankfully announced to be published by Viva Media, no release date was attached to it other than the promise of it coming out "this month." Well, a product page on Amazon of a bundle including Mata Hari and some Sherlock Holmes game alleges the rather near release date of July 14th.
The price of this bundle is listed at the quite cheap $19.99, which makes one wonder how much Mata Hari (now with cover art that does not recall Leisure Suit Larry) will go for riding solo. Surely even an underwhelming Falstein/Barwood effort is worth such trifling change? |
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Three new screenshots probably don't constitute TMI Posted by Jason | Comments: 4 |
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Telltale has released three new screenshots from the first episode of Tales of Monkey Island, which you can check out in the occasionally not broken Mojo gallery. Sweet.
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Brutal Legend Wii Cancelled, world surprised it even existed Posted by The Tingler | Source: Destructoid | Comments: 11 |
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While it was never more than an ongoing rumour, the rumour about that rumour is that the Wii version of Brütal Legend has been cancelled due to quality and technical issues. Anyone who's ever played the PS2 version of Psychonauts should being saying "fair enough".
This is all according to Destructoid. Apparently the port was in development at EA's own studios, but that's a big "was" now. I don't really mind this... as long as there's a PC version coming. Yes, I'm still banging that drum and I'll be doing it waaaay past Rocktober I suspect. |
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News from Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
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Exclusive TMI gameplay video Posted by Jason | Comments: 16 |
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You should probably just not watch this as the first episode of Tales of Monkey Island comes out a mere seven days from now, but those of you who want to plunder the spoilerific surprises of (I assume to be) the game's opening sequence can follow this link to Gamespot's exclusive video footage of it. Don't watch this.
Yarr! Update: It's no longer quite so exclusive, with Telltale putting it up on their blog in handy Youtube form. |
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Ron Gilbert at PAX Posted by Kroms | Comments: 4 |
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Monkey Island/Deathspank creator Ron Gilbert will be keynoting at PAX this year. What he will keynote about, and whether or not we can get a good transcript of said keynote, is a bit of a mystery at the moment. Still, Ron Gilbert! He had his name on the front of the Monkey Island box and everything.
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News from Monday, June 29, 2009 |
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A TMI kombo Posted by MrManager | Comments: 0 |
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Remember that Kombo Breaker web site? Nor do I, but they've recently launched a podcast episode with our friends and companions at TTG, Mike Stemmle and Emily Mort... Morgt... Morganti.
I mean, really, stop reading this, and go listen! |
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News from Sunday, June 28, 2009 |
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LucasArts celebrate Star Wars by refusing to release games in chronological order Posted by elTee | Source: Nickelstein / 1UP | Comments: 9 |
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So on the 7th, we get Tales of Monkey Island - then, a week later it's The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Well, at least if this is to be believed. Thanks to Nickelstein over on our forum for pointing this out. As many of you have mentioned, releasing the Special Edition after TMI seems like a bad move on LucasArts' part. The game is clearly ready to roll, and it's a digital distribution so... what's the wait? But LucasArts are experts on the adventure game marketplace, and I can't even figure out what time the sun sets on Melee Island. So we'll wait and see on this one, I suppose... But yeah, let's not end this on a sour note: the preliminary report is that MI:SE will be available from the 15th of July, and that is awesome. |
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News from Saturday, June 27, 2009 |
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Adventure Game Plug Posted by Gabez | Comments: 4 |
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Igor Hardy, comic creator and omelette eater, is making an adventure game! It's called "Frantic Franko: A Bergzwerg Gone Berserk" and he's just released a demo, which you can download on his web-site.
Igor would sure love some feedback, so if the game takes your fancy and you have a play with it, be sure to let him know what you think. Igor would also like some play-testers for the main game, so get in touch through his web-site or the comments here, if that interests you. |
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News from Friday, June 26, 2009 |
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Brütal Thoughts With Jack Black: Episode Three Posted by Kroms | Comments: 4 |
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It even has gameplay footage!
In related news: Schafer and crew say "Hi, thanks for joining the awesome Facebook group." In unrelated news: If you browse the Mojo forums you'll notice that some of you awesome readers are posting the Monkey Island Q&A's Telltale are doing on their special Monkey Island forums/Facebook. I'd link but I can't find them right now, but either way you should check them out. |
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News from Thursday, June 25, 2009 |
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MI:SE appears on Xbox Live UK Posted by elTee | Source: xgfx | Comments: 11 |
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Out of blue, from Microsoft to you: MONKEY ISLAND: SPECIAL EDITION - the E3 Preview Video.
You weren't expecting the actual game, were you? Still plenty of time for Marketplace Realities yet... Of note is the fact that they chose to use an image made by LucasForums member parabolee, rather than any official artwork. The Mojo lawyers are considering the legal impact of sending an ironic 'cease and desist' letter to LucasArts as we speak. Check it all out here. |
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Monkey Island RetroPerspective Posted by jp-30 | Source: Game Set Watch | Comments: 1 |
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On the lucas forums, user parabolee has pointed out that GameSetWatch has a nice overview article about the Monkey Island series. Tales of Monkey Island also gets a mention, as do Laserschwert's massive posters.
It’s a gorgeous looking game, though. Not just for something that’s almost 18 years old – it is genuinely stunning. I’m glad they never released it in EGA form, and really, it’s quite possible that they weren’t able to technically – the level of detail probably relies on things like, you know, more than 16 colours.If you're looking for that second link that's identical to the first link that we at Mojo tend to post after the quote, here it is. |
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News from Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
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A Tim Schafer Game Posted by Jason | Comments: 16 |
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Want to see the final Brütal Legend cover art in hi-res? Then you'll want to be heading over to Kotaku.
Quite brütal, if I may be so bold. Let's just hope that Double Fine's second consecutive lack of explosions doesn't hurt them again. |
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Vooju Preevu Posted by jp-30 | Source: Adventuregamers | Comments: 6 |
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Adventuregamers has a brand new Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island preview, and an interview with Bill Tiller.
the idea of Ghost Pirates came from an idea we bandied about at LucasArts to play three different Monkey Island characters in one game, to see the adventure through their eyes.Go read it. |
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Dam-dam-dam-dam Posted by MrManager | Comments: 5 |
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Want to see the TMI chapter screen?
Spoil ahead then! And don't tell me you didn't hum the chapter tune too. Now let's all tell Jake to clean his desk. (I assume it's his desk.) |
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A Grand Review Posted by Gabez | Comments: 11 |
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Continuing our unstoppable onslaught of articles in your face, we give you... a new Wallace and Gromit review!
In. Your. Face. |
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News from Monday, June 22, 2009 |
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Tales Q&A with Telltale's Mark Darin, Eurogamer interview Posted by jp-30 | Source: Facebook | Comments: 23 |
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A few days back Mark Darin, the Co-Lead Designer for Tales of Monkey Island, held a Q&A session on the Facebook wall of the Monkey Island Adventures page. It's buried now, and a bit of a jumble, so head on over to the Telltale forums where member tomo_cjt has cleaned it up and edited out the dross and posted it for your reading pleasure.
Tingler Updates: To save making another similar post, Eurogamer have an interview with Dave Grossman about the game, with a few new screenshots! Of particular note is why Tim Schafer's not involved (apparently Ron's involvement caused some legal problems) and Dave's surprised "no comment" when asked if they would be doing an Indiana Jones game... |
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Sam & Max 360 Posted by A Pirate! Yar! | Comments: 13 |
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Remember the days when we updated features at Mojo about once every two years? Those days are apparently long gone, what with another review, this time of the Xbox 360 version of Sam & Max: Season One: Save the World.
Oh just read it. |
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