News

Monkey Island Remakes Coming Back Once Again

The high-def remakes of Lucasarts’ first two Monkey Island games are being combined in the one box and sold at retail. Included as a sweetener will be concept art, soundtracks and, best of all, material from an abortive attempt at making an animated Monkey Island animated movie.


January 25, 2011
PC

The Best Way To Stop Game Piracy Is With Stupid Pirate Heads

Video game piracy is seen by the industry as a dire problem, so much so that many PC games these days are burdened with digital rights management (or DRM) systems. They suck. Pirate heads are way better.


January 19, 2011
In Real Life

Monkey Island Honoured With… Porn Game Tribute

Monkey Island? More like Spunky Island.


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 29, 2010
News

I Am Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty… Jedi Apprentice?!

LucasArts has revealed a somewhat unexpected addition to the cast of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, the star of comedic adventure game series Monkey Island. Either some cloning procedure has gone horribly wrong or Guybrush really is that mighty.


September 28, 2010

Humour Finds Hope In Indie Game Development

Humour in video games can be a brutally serious thing.


News

Tim Schafer Hires Ron Gilbert, Gets Funnier

Video gaming’s best known funny men are back together again under one roof, having a “hell of a lot of fun”, making jokes and perhaps even developing a game or two.


July 8, 2010

I Pitched A Monkey Island Movie To Hollywood

“Why do you think this video game is so great, Lisa?” asked Dan Schneider, executive producer at Nickelodeon.


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!


September 18, 2009
News

Get Tales Of Monkey Island Free On Talk Like A Pirate Day

Telltale Games and LucasArts have teamed up to make this year’s Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19—same day as Rosh Hashanah) memorable with a free download of Tales of Monkey Island, Episode One.