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Monkey Island: The Deleted Scenes
11:30PM Luke Plunkett | 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! More »
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Ron Gilbert On DeathSpank: Why Play Two Games?
1:30AM Mike Fahey | Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion creator Ron Gilbert was at PAX 2009 to talk about his upcoming action RPG meets adventure game DeathSpank, discussing melding the two genres and accusing me of witchcraft. More »
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Scenes And Screens From Ron Gilbert’s DeathSpank
1:30AM Mike Fahey | Behold screenshots and a trailer for Ron Gilbert’s DeathSpank, due out 2010-ish for too many platforms to mention. More »
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Scene From PAX: Ron Gilbert Inspires
7:20AM Stephen Totilo | Wil Wheaton was a hero. Online porn was primitive. His parents got him a computer when he was a kid that had 8K of RAM. Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island co-creator Ron Gilbert is on stage at PAX reminiscing. More »
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A Good Look At Monkey Island Creator’s New Game
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | Ron Gilbert’s latest game, Deathspank, isn’t new. We’ve known about it for ages. But all this info and screenshots, well, they’re very new. More »
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Monkey Island’s Ron Gilbert To Keynote PAX
3:00AM Brian Crecente | Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert plans to keynote the sixth annual Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle in September, the organisers said today. More »
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9:30PM Luke Plunkett | With both a new Monkey Island and a remake of the original on the way, people once again have the classic series on the brain. What better time, then, to catch up on where it all started! More »
The Making Of Monkey Island
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | With both a new Monkey Island and a remake of the original on the way, people once again have the classic series on the brain. What better time, then, to catch up on where it all started! More » Ron Gilbert on Episodic Gaming and the Film Industry
6:00AM Maggie Greene | Ron Gilbert is probably best known for his work at LucasArts, where he worked on such favourites as Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island, and Day Of The Tentacle. Most recently, he’s worked on Penny Arcade Adventures and has a forthcoming title called DeathSpank. Gamasutra sat down for a somewhat lengthy interview, discussing the episodic model, working within the current industry framework, and moving outside the current studio framework into a more ‘Hollywood’ type model. On this aspect (shifting to a more ‘team’ based approach where people come together to work on specific projects), he’s got this to say: More »
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