Jun 5 2009NEW MONKEY ISLAND GAME COMING OUT
Let's kick this Friday off right, huh? THERE IS A NEW GAME IN THE MONKEY ISLAND SERIES COMING JULY 7th! Not only that, Lucasarts is releasing a remake of the original Secrets of Monkey Island, also set to drop this summer (for XBox Arcade, PC and Mac). Quick, grog me so we can cheers!
Tales of Monkey Island (PC and WiiWare) will be released in five monthly serials by Telltale Games beginning July 7th in the same fashion as the recenter Sam & Max and Strongbad games. You can preorder now for $35. I just preordered with two different credit cards in case I screwed something up the first time. And I may do it a third just to be safe. Now, granted the style of graphics really isn't my favorite, but that's okay. MONKEY ISLAND, YO! One of the Jonas Brothers could play Guybrush and I'd still buy it. Kidding, I'd cannonball myself in the face.
Hit the jump for two VIDEOS, one about each of the games coming out.
Official Lucasarts Site
and
Official Telltale Games Site
via
LeChuck Me: Monkey Island Returns [rockpapershotgun]
Thanks to Christina, JJ, StumpMan and ashums, who all agree that's the second biggest monkey head they've ever seen.
Reader Comments
1. suntoshgraphics - June 5, 2009 10:17 AM
First
2. catch22 - June 5, 2009 10:17 AM
YET YOU FAIL TO ANNOUNCE THE NEW METROID OR SUPER MARIO GALAXY.... OR WII FIT 2????
im appauled
3. xxii - June 5, 2009 10:18 AM
@1 sucks
4. dubba - June 5, 2009 10:19 AM
im still waiting for beyond good and evil 2
and fallout: new vegas
and the fallout mmorpg
YAY videogames!!!
5. Silver - June 5, 2009 10:20 AM
I once owned a dog that was smarter then you.
He must have taught you everything you know.
6. FIRSTTARD - June 5, 2009 10:20 AM
FIRST!
7. sokka - June 5, 2009 10:21 AM
so ummm... what system(s) is it for? im guessing sony ... or at least the pc
8. LSDiesel - June 5, 2009 10:32 AM
@4, I love Fallout 3. I have it on xbox, and don't have live (gasp) but I was pleased when I saw that they had decided to release the expansions (albeit late) in disc form.
20 bucks for Operation Anchorage and the Pit. A good deal for someone who doesn't play enough xbox to make buying xbox live worth it.
As for Monkey Island....well....
9. thechevron - June 5, 2009 10:33 AM
lol @ 6
oh my god, best news this year.
10. Weesil - June 5, 2009 10:34 AM
I LOOVVEE monkey island.
Super awesome game, bet you can't beat me:
http://weesil.mybrute.com/
11. Jawbones - June 5, 2009 10:38 AM
OH GOD YES.
This is amazing
12. dubba - June 5, 2009 10:46 AM
@8 yeah i have fallout 3 on the pc (gotthe pre oderder survival edition... (i may submit my pipboy3000 thats been retrofitted with an lcd)
wallmart sells the pitt and operation ancorage for $20 in a 2 pack
broken steel is also available
i totally love fallout all the way back to wasteland (except fallout tatics...thats the "star wars christmas special" of the fallout universe)
i will rock out the mmorpg with my cock out
stay out of the way of my gauss rifle beeyotch
13. -Lmega5- - June 5, 2009 10:47 AM
advertising much?
14. Pat - June 5, 2009 10:57 AM
Great news. But you know what game is ripe for a remake? Startropics! That would rock!
15. ChristoLG - June 5, 2009 11:02 AM
Good Heavens this is the best news i've heard this YEAR!
Coincidently, i just started playing the old ones again!
AWESOME!AWESOME!AWESOME!!!!
16. Timbo - June 5, 2009 11:02 AM
One day I'll play Monkey Island.... It looks awesome.
What else have I missed out on?
17. Daisy - June 5, 2009 11:20 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was fishing for a shark, and when he saw it he said we're gonna need a bigger boat.
18. Larrythefatcat - June 5, 2009 11:32 AM
@ GW
FAIL! 'Tales of Monkey Island' is coming out on WiiWare and PC... no Mac release is mentioned anywhere.
If you're writing for a site with 'geek' in the name, get your geeky facts right... sheesh! ;)
19. catch22 - June 5, 2009 11:46 AM
@18 being a mac owner is like being one of those douchebags in highschool who would spend their lunchperiod sitting at a table by themselves reading the dictionary like a novel because they think it makes them smarter
unless you work at a tv station owning a mac as about as much douchebaggery as owning a toyota prius and telling everyone that not driving a hybrid makes baby jesus cry (then they feel dumb 100k miles later when they pump $8 grand into a new battery supply)
theres a difference between being a geek and a dork
you my friend, are a dork
on a related note... mac sucks
20. RiotPorn - June 5, 2009 12:18 PM
YESSSSSSS
21. Mrowr - June 5, 2009 1:00 PM
YOU, SIR, HAVE MADE MY DAY!
22. Mrowr - June 5, 2009 1:02 PM
YOU, SIR, HAVE MADE MY DAY!
23. The Music Elitist - June 5, 2009 1:21 PM
This news BLEW my effing mind this week. So happy about the remake and the new game!
24. The Music Elitist - June 5, 2009 1:22 PM
@2 This news is way more important than the news about either of those games.
25. Guybrush Threepwood - June 5, 2009 1:34 PM
Cant Wait !!!
@Larrythefatcat - Dont some Macs have Windows (a friend of mine runs Windows as well as OSX on his Mac using something called Boot Camp)
p.s. "Your as repulsive as a monkey in a negligee"
26. Mr. Krinkle - June 5, 2009 1:56 PM
YES!!!! YES!!!! Wait a sec... Look out behind you, a three-headed monkey!!!
27. Larrythefatcat - June 5, 2009 2:02 PM
@19
I didn't say I owned a Mac (which I don't) but I do have a Wii (mostly because of Strong Bad's Cool Game 4 Attractive People)
And I may be a dork, but my post doesn't have much to do with that... I'm just saying that the GW should get his facts straight.
@25
Yeah, you can have Windows on a Mac, but that's an unnatrural spawn of satan... which sounds cool except for the fact that a Mac is still involved. But hey, no viruses!
28. GLADIATOR - June 5, 2009 2:37 PM
OMG! The first video shows the wife of the WWE Wresler Kamala! HAHAHAHAH
Come and join the short and easy game mybrute:
http://burpnassker.mybrute.com
The game takes less than 5 minutes to play!
29. Chris - June 5, 2009 3:05 PM
FINALLY!
30. jess - June 5, 2009 4:02 PM
oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh!!!! finally!!!! yaaay!
@ #2 you're an idiot. monkey island shits on all of those other things.
31. Darth - June 5, 2009 4:29 PM
Lol is Pirates of the Carribean based on Monkey Island?
32. Nero - June 5, 2009 4:35 PM
What's that with monkeys and pirates? Both are miles away from my civilized being.
33. Watch-303 - June 5, 2009 6:01 PM
WACKA WACKA DOO DOO YEAH!!!
34. Larrythefatcat - June 5, 2009 6:59 PM
Well let me tell you people, it wasn't long at all before my dream came true, because the very next day a local radio station had this contest to see who could correctly guess the number of molecules in Leonard Nimoy's butt. I was off by three, but I still won the grand prize: That's right -- a first-class one-way ticket... to
Albuquerque!
thanks 33
35. Shoka - June 5, 2009 7:46 PM
And to think that a matter of weeks ago, I buggered about getting the original floppy disk version of this running on my PC. Dangnabbit.
36. Captain - June 6, 2009 9:10 AM
Must See!!!
http://captain-hash.mybrute.com
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