In Real Life

How Appropriate, You Fight Like A Boy Who Never Grows Up

Monkey Island’s Guybrush Threepwood gets a lesson in swordplay he can’t talk his way out of. By Aled Lewis, as seen on GamOvr.


October 25, 2010
In Real Life

See Guybrush Threepwood In Action; Learn How To Unlock Him

Spoiler Alert. On the next page you’ll see video of the location of the Guybrush Threepwood costume holocron in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. You’ll also get detailed instructions on finding it, and see Threepkiller in action.


October 1, 2010
News

Will We Get More Monkey Island From Monkey Island’s Creators?

When news hit that Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer were working together again at the same studio, all thoughts seemed to shift to Monkey Island.


September 28, 2010

Humour Finds Hope In Indie Game Development

Humour in video games can be a brutally serious thing.


July 8, 2010
In Real Life

Not All Pirates Were As Nice As Guybrush Threepwood

The release this week of Monkey Island 2: Special Edition has many people revisiting the lighter side of piracy in the Caribbean. If only real pirates had been that funny!


June 17, 2010

Lucasarts, This Monkey Island 2 Trailer Was A TERRIBLE Idea

Why? Because now, as nice as the special, revamped 2010 remake of Monkey Island 2 looks, I want it to look like this clip instead.


May 21, 2010
In Real Life

Video Game Sound Has Come A Long Way, Baby

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It may seem ridiculous now, but there once was a time when it was tough work getting sound out of a PC. We’ve come a long way since then, something this clip does a good job of reminding us.


March 30, 2010
In Real Life

LeChuck Piece Makes All Other Tattoos Walk The Plank

Not sure how we missed this tattoo of Monkey Island antagonist Le Chuck last year. Maybe it was so fantastic it burned clean through our collective consciousness. As seen on Geekologie.


February 12, 2010
News

Monkey Island, More Telltale Games Head To The Mac

Which do you want first, Mac users? Bad news? OK, bad news first: the upcoming Starcraft II beta won’t be gracing the Mac later this month. For now, it’s PC only. Sorry. Now for the good news!


November 10, 2009
News

Monkey Island: The Deleted Scenes

Movies have deleted scenes, everyone knows that. But it’s rare we see deleted game scenes, because they’re normally just 1s and 0s, and if they’re not in the final game, we don’t see them. Unless we’re talking Monkey Island!