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Sam & Max Save the World Remastered: out now
Skunkape releases the remastered first season of Telltale’s Sam & Max adventures, with reworked graphics, lighting and audio.
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Sources: Skunkape · press kit
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Monkey Island 30th Anniversary Anthology: announced
Limited Run Games announces a physical Monkey Island 30th Anniversary Anthology during LRG3, celebrating the series’ first three decades.
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Sources: Limited Run Games · LRG3 2020
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Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure: out now
Delores returns as a Nickel News photographer in Terrible Toybox’s free mini-adventure, a prototype for Ron Gilbert’s new engine using Thimbleweed Park artwork.
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Sources: Steam · Terrible Toybox
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Escape from Monkey Island · GOG: a new destination
Escape from Monkey Island returns as a DRM-free digital release on GOG, reopening Guybrush’s fourth adventure to new and returning players.
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Sources: GOG
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The Curse of Monkey Island e Maniac Mansion · GOG: a new destination
The Curse of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion arrive on GOG as DRM-free digital releases, bringing two generations of LucasArts adventures back to players.
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Sources: GOG
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Thimbleweed Park · Nintendo Switch: a new destination
Thimbleweed Park arrives on Nintendo Switch, bringing Gilbert and Winnick’s investigation to Nintendo’s hybrid console.
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Sources: Nintendo · Thimbleweed Park
Thimbleweed Park · Update 1388.918
The creators introduce new conversations between the protagonists and an in-game hint phone line, expanding how players follow the investigation.
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Sources: Thimbleweed Park Blog
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Full Throttle returns in Remastered version
Double Fine brings Ben and the Polecats' journey back to life with high-resolution graphics and an overhaul of the audio and music. The Remastered edition brings back one of the most recognizable adventures in the LucasArts catalogue.
Learn more: Full Throttle's card
Sources: Double Fine · The release trailer
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Thimbleweed Park, a new town to explore
Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick's adventure comes to players: a town full of mysteries, different protagonists and the pleasure of exploring dialogues and enigmas. It is a work distinct from Monkey Island, but it belongs to the creative path of some of its authors.
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered is available
Bernard, Hoagie and Laverne return in the edition edited by Double Fine. The restoration renews the presentation of the 1993 adventure and offers an opportunity to rediscover the enigmas built around time travel.
Learn more: The Day of the Tentacle card
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Broken Age · PlayStation 4 / Vita: out now
Double Fine releases Broken Age on PS4 and PS Vita, weaving two young protagonists and two worlds into a hand-animated adventure.
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Sources: PlayStation Blog · Double Fine
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Grim Fandango Remastered reopens Manny's path
Grim Fandango returns in a remastered edition published by Double Fine. Manny Calavera's journey to the Land of the Dead once again becomes a meeting point between fans of the first edition and new travellers.
Learn more: Grim Fandango's card
Sources: Double Fine · Grim Fandango Lives
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Thimbleweed Park · Kickstarter
Thimbleweed Park’s campaign closes with $626,250 from 15,623 backers, exceeding its $375,000 goal and funding Gilbert and Winnick’s adventure.
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Sources: Kickstarter
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Tim Schafer · Grim Fandango: behind the adventure
Tim Schafer discusses Grim Fandango Remastered with PlayStation Blog and explains why Manny’s adventure can appeal to a new generation.
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Sources: PlayStation Blog
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Thimbleweed Park: announced
Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick launch Thimbleweed Park on Kickstarter: a new point-and-click adventure built around characters, puzzles, verbs and large pixels.
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Lucasfilm · GOG
GOG announces its Disney and Lucasfilm agreement. The first releases include Sam & Max Hit the Road, Monkey Island Special Edition and Fate of Atlantis.
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Sources: GOG
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Broken Age · Act I: out now
Broken Age’s first act reaches players, following Vella and Shay through two different worlds in Tim Schafer and Double Fine’s hand-animated adventure.
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Sources: Steam · Double Fine
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LucasArts ends internal game production
-04.04.2013 Videogames, Disney closes LucasArts! Stop production. Just five months after the billion-dollar acquisition. Production of games suspended, including Star Wars 1313. A piece of history that is disappearing?
Walt Disney closes LucasArts, the video game publishing company founded by director George Lucas, and halts production of all new releases, including the announced and highly anticipated Star Wars 1313, due out later this year, and Star Wars: First Assault. The announcement was made Miles Perkins, a spokesperson for Lucasfilm.
LucasArts, founded 31 years ago, was acquired last October by Disney together with the film company of the same name. The cost of the operation was 4 billion dollars. The closure of the company will also lead to the loss of an unspecified number of jobs (according to the Kotaku.com website at least 150 people), while a "small team" will remain due to partnership issues, Perkins explained. The characters and stories will be outsourced to other developers, although the source cited by Kotaku even considers this hypothesis unlikely.
LucasArts had become famous throughout the world for the production of graphic adventures such as The Secret of Monkey Island (and the related series), the Indiana Jones PC saga, those based on flight simulators (the accurate historical trilogy Battlehawks 1942, Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe) and the first 3D attempts (Grim Fandango). At the beginning of the nineties the first Star Wars games were born, with X-Wing, Dark Forces, and so on up to Star Wars: Battlefront, the most famous edition, based on the previous Battlehawks. The last game in the series was released in 2008, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (and there are also "little brothers" in the Lego version). Seven years later, fans of the series were waiting for 1313 with enthusiasm. At the very least the project will be postponed, probably outsourced.
(from Il Corriere della Sera.it)
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The Cave · Xbox 360: out now
Ron Gilbert and Double Fine bring The Cave to Xbox Live Arcade: choose three of seven adventurers to explore a cave with a story of its own.
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Sources: Xbox Wire
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Double Fine Adventure · Kickstarter
Double Fine Adventure closes with $3,336,371 from 87,142 backers, exceeding its $400,000 goal for the game and development documentary.
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Sources: Kickstarter