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Monkey Island To Return
Briareos was one of several readers to write with news that TellTale Games, along with LucasArts, will be bringing new Monkey Island games later this year. Tales of Monkey Island will be a series of episodic games released for PC and WiiWare in the coming months, and The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition will be a remake of the original 1990 game, available on the PC and Xbox Live. A trailer is available for the former, and this is what the press release says about the latter: "The development team at LucasArts is bringing the game into the modern era with all-new HD graphics, a re-mastered musical score, full voiceover, and an in-depth hint system has been added to help players through the game's side-splitting puzzles. Purists will also delight in the ability to seamlessly switch between the updated HD graphics and the original's classic look." Grumpy Gamer has a nostalgic look back at the franchise.
Its true, prior to the discovery that "money" existed Lucas Arts was actually the North American department of Santa's Workshop. There happy elves toiled day and night to produce a completely free product, motivated only by the joy of smiling children, gumdrops, and the caressing wand lashings of the fairy godmother supervising overlord. But then one day the great evil awoke after his long post-Jedi slumber and devoured all the elves as a breakfast snack. Subsequently, all decisions made at the newly minted "business" or "corporation" involved making more money. Gone was the lost ideals of yesterday where only peals of laughter out of the focus group of well-fed orphans would guide corporate decision making. Truly a tragic loss.
Or maybe you just grew up.