#GamingNEWS Return to Monkey Island - Official Announcement Trailer

I hadn't posted the "Monkey Island 6" trailer over here YET, but I gotta I'm hyped!

Devolver Digital makes great games. Ron Rilbert is back to helm the series. It's another classic 2D point and click again, which is a nice return to form even though I love Escape and Tales. And it's appartently already coming this year!!

Even though the game is a mystery, we also know Michael Land is back on music duty and Dominic Armato as well as Guybrush.

#Kickstarter NEWS! Thimbleweed Park

Hooray!

The Twin Peaks-esque spiritual successor to the all-time classic LucasArts original adventure game, Maniac Mansion! - has reached its target goal!

Thimbleweed Park is an upcoming kickstarter-funded retro point & click, in the pure tradition of ol' adventure games, and developed by the man behind it all, Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, etc.).

Here's the original trailer:



And a link to the kickstarter.

It's looking great so far! Can't wait to hear more from it!

#SEGA NEWS! announcement of The Cave - Double Fine & Sega team-up!

After some teasing for a while on Ron Gilbert's part, Double Fine's all-new title has finally been properly announced!

And what a twist, it will be produced by Sega!

Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert discuss about adventure games

Not just glad to have launched a successful kickstarter project, Double Fine's Tim Schafer made this little video in which he and classic adventure game legend Ron Gilbert discuss about the genre and their carreer at LucasArts.

A very nice insight video with lots of little trivia and memories from the golden age of the genre, enjoy!



I really hope this turns out good, but the best of the genre's been coming from Europe these last bunch of years mostly.

Let's see what these master can come up with!~

Gamin' NEWS! first pic of new Ron Gilbert game

Here's the first pics of the new game from Monkey Island daddy Ron Gilbert:

Since he left LucasArts in the 90s, he's been mostly heading Hothead Games as creative director, where he produced for example the excellent DeathSpank series.
He came back to Monkey Island at Telltales recently and has now left with Tim Schafer for Double Fine studios.

His first game with Double Fine is slowly being revealed. And it already really looks like a Ron Gilbert production.

Ron Gilbert released the first two pieces of concept arts on his blog.

Here are a couple of fine pieces of concept art from the game I'm making with the amazing folks at Double Fine.  I'm so excited.  This is an idea that has been in my head for a long long long time.  It predates Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island.  It's a game that needed to be made.
These are two of the playable characters.  That's all I can say right now, but more will follow later. 

Oh, my! How intriguing!

VGR LeChuck's Revenge

And here's MONKEY ISLAND 2!

Very great sequel! One of the best example of how good a sequel should always be, even if they released it only a year after the first one!

(note: This review was written a long time before the recently released 2010 Special edition)

Edit29/12/2010: Edited this old review with my current template, instead of the huge jpg picture I previously had... 

VGR Secret of Monkey Island

Here's the 1st original Monkey Island game (not the modern remake)!

Edit29/12/2010: Edited this old review with my current template, instead of the huge jpg picture I previously had...