Before I saw It this September, I only had a vague idea of the plot. "I know there's a clown in a drain, and it's after kids," I said. "Just stay away from the drains, then!" I have now seen the film, and am ready to concede that it was a little more complicated than that.

Kicking off in 1986, Lucasarts presided over an era (running until around the year 2000) in which they were the adventure game Kings, releasing a string of titles that remain all-time classics even decades later.

Indiana Jones And The Fate of Atlantis is one of the great point and click adventure games. Now, a fan remake has stopped production after being contacted by Lucasfilms.

Video: Indiana Jones superfan Patrick Schoenmaker has, for the last five years, been working on this animated sequence which imagines the intro to an Indy cartoon series that never actually existed.

Goddammit. Just when you thought you'd buried memories of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull deep enough in your sub-conscious, Disney go an and announce this.

Steven Spielberg will Direct Harrison Ford in a brand new Indiana Jones movie set for release in 2019.

Someone make it stop.

Steam's Autumn sales -- even though it started in the Australian spring, and it's technically summer now -- are usually smaller than their mid-year efforts and the shenanigans that ensue right around Christmas. But that doesn't mean there aren't some good deals to be had or cheap games to purchase immediately prior to Christmas. But if you're going to take the plunge in the current sale, you only have until 10:00AM PST. That's 5:00 AM tomorrow morning, or 2:00 AM if you live in Perth.

But what's worth buying? Let's take a look.

Dayshot: Here's a coloured tattoo commission done by professional artist Jayson Hotchkiss. It's a Mario-Indiana Jones mashup titled "The Temple of Shroom", and it is gorgeous. The crappy GIF doesn't do it justice, so make sure to look at the full-res version below -- and here for more of Hotchkiss' work. (via XombieDIRGE)

There's an Indiana Jones restaurant? There will be this fall at the Walt Disney World Resort. But don't get your hopes up just yet. Actually, don't get them up ever.

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis has a part, in the beginning, where you can play the initial titles or credits sequence at the beginning of the game. I find myself wishing that way more narrative-based games would do this adorable moviesque thing.

Mickey Mouse now owns both Han Solo and his whip-bearing twin Indy -- Disney has purchased the rights to the Indiana Jones franchise from Paramount, the film group that distributed the first four films in the beloved action/adventure series.

Figma figures are about the best figures on Earth if you like putting characters in rad poses. There will soon be an Indiana Jones Figma. Yes.

LucasArts might be gone, but the characters from its classic adventure games live on. In YouTube user Felipe Machado's video, the worlds of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones and almost everything else LucasArts did in the 90s collide for terrific a mini-adventure.

The 16-bit era had unique visuals. Simple yet bright and colourful, we could always get lost in the tiny details. Taking parts of these memorable games and mixing them with a real life environment might sound odd, but if done right the results are beautiful.

Indiana Jones is not the only one solving annoying ancient puzzles in haunted caves, armed with a whip and dynamites, far from civilisation. A setting like this is perfect for video games, so it is no surprise that many were influenced by the character, and the similarities in some cases are amazing.

Theres a big auction going down in Hollywood this weekend for a range of official props, photos and film from classic films like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Alien, Indiana Jones and Star Trek.

From an interview with The New York Times.

Remember last year how Harrison Ford helped Sony market Uncharted 3 in Japan? Well, those clips have been remixed into something way better.

One of the most popular video games on Facebook will be renamed this week. The game formerly known as Adventure World will be renamed for George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's renowned hero Indiana Jones as game company Zynga adds the most extraordinary character to one of its games since FarmVille got a visit from Lady Gaga.

Indiana Jones' next video game will be on Facebook. He's going to appear in Adventure World, the actually pretty good quest game from Zynga, makers of FarmVille. It'll happen some time this October, according to a Zynga blog post.