Kotaku: Telltale

Jurassic Park: The Game Delayed, Full Refunds and Freebies Served As Apology

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:40:00 EDT

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Telltale Games' take on Jurassic Park was supposed to hit in April, bringing prehistoric episodic fun to gamers. But the company behind Jurassic Park: The Game now expects the title to hit this fall, according to an e-mail sent to those who pre-ordered the game. More »

Telltale Games Nabs Law & Order: Los Angeles For Its Latest Episodic Series

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:30:00 EDT

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The Telltale Games factory has added one more property to its lengthy episodic games portfolio, NBC crime procedural Law & Order: Los Angeles. With Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, The Walking Dead and many, many more episodic series on its plate, why Law & Order? More »

These Screens Will Send You Back To The Future

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:00:00 EST

Back to the Future will take players back to Hill Valley with Marty McFly and Doc Brown. It's hard to know if the game will get up to 88 miles per hour, but these latest batch of screenshots look promising, future boy. More »

Yep, An Ewok In A Delorean

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:30:00 EDT

As part of a promotion for Telltale's Back to the Future game. As seen on CNET via Bleeding Cool. More »

Sam & Max & Season 3 & PlayStation 3

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST

Telltale, developers of the episodic series of Sam & Max, revealed today that not only is there a third season of the dog & rabbit detective series on the way, but that for the first time it'll be on PS3. More »

Some Good News, And Bad News, For Mac Users

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:30:00 EST

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! More »

Monkey Island Comes To Wii...Today!

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:30:00 EDT

Pretty sure that regardless of where you are on this rotating ball of dirt, as you're reading this, it's Monday, July 27. And that means the new Monkey Island will be out on Wii today. More »

Tales Of Monkey Island - Not One Of Those Wet Bones

Mike Fahey — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:20:00 EDT

Take a look at how well Telltale is handling being responsible for the continuation of one of the most beloved adventure game franchises of all time. More »

Taste Hot Monkey Vengeance!

Mike Fahey — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:00:00 EDT

Prepare to meet your frosty, carbonated maker in this E3 trailer for Telltale's Tales of Monkey Island. More »

Telltale Tells Tales Of Monkey Island

Mike Fahey — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:00:00 EDT

With LucasArts busy recreating The Secret of Monkey Island, Telltale is bringing us Tales of Monkey Island, an episodic adventure that picks up where the fifth Monkey Island game left off. More »

New And Old Monkey Island Adventures In The Works

Mike Fahey — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:40:00 EDT

The rumors of a remake of the original Monkey Island for Xbox Live Arcade are true, but it gets much better, as LucasArts and Telltale team up to deliver all-new episodic Monkey Island adventures. More »

Strong Bad Sales Double With Wii SD Card Support

Mike Fahey — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Nintendo's addition of SD memory card play to the Nintendo Wii has done amazing things for WiiWare developers, with Telltale announcing that sales of their Strong Bad series have doubled since the GDC announcement. More »

Sam & Max Nominated For An Eisner Award

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:00:00 EDT

For those who don't read/follow comics that closely, know that the Eisner awards are, for want of a better metaphor, the Oscars of comics. Know also that Sam & Max are up for one! More »

Sam & Max Hit The Xbox Live Arcade

Mike Fahey — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:20:00 EST

Telltale brings their dog and rabbity-thing adventures to a whole new audience, announcing both seasons of the award-winning Sam & Max series for Xbox Live Arcade. More »

First Wallace and Gromit Screens Impressively Clay-like

Mike Fahey — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:40:00 EST

The plasticine engineering duo come to life again as Telltale releases the first in-game screenshots of their latest episodic adventure series, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventure. More »

Strong Bad Season One Ends In Burnination

Mike Fahey — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:40:00 EST

Oh this is it. The one you've all been waiting for. There's just two episodes left in the first season of Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People, and Telltale has saved the best for last. Episode four, due out November 17th, will be Dangeresque 3, the long awaited final installment in the low-budget action movie trilogy, written by, starring, and directed by Strong Bad. Help Dangeresque defend the world from his arch nemesis, Uzi Bazooka, unlocking special deleted scenes from the film you can only access once the final credits roll. And after that... More »

Telltale Designer on Strong Bad, Episodic Gaming

Maggie Greene — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:30:00 EST

Telltale Games has been churning out the episodes of their Sam & Max and Strong Bad series; GameSetWatch talked to Mike Stemmle, LucasArts veteran and current Telltale writer and designer, about the Telltale design process, the veteran-friendly atmosphere (unsurprisingly, the Telltale ranks are full of other LucasArts veterans), and the potentials for non-licensed IP. On the inner workings of Telltale, Stemmle has this to say: More »

Telltale Offering Loaded Sam & Max Collector's DVD

Leigh Alexander — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:40:00 EDT

Telltale, creators of the Sam & Max episodic adventure series, announced a collector's DVD set for Sam & Max Season Two available today, packed with tons of extras. Telltale's announcement focuses on the game's collector's edition getting the same treatment that a TV series boxset would. More »

Lunchtime With The Brothers Chap: Strong Bad's Creators Speak And Eat

Mike Fahey — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EDT

Way back in 1996, two University of Georgia students, Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel, created The Homestar Runner Enters The Strongest Man In The World Contest as a parody of the chidlren's books of that bygone era. Shortly after this the characters introduced in that book - Homestar Runner, Strong Bad, Strong Sad, and Pom Pom - would make their console debut as a cartoon created in the Super Nintendo game Mario Paint. In 1999 Mike Chapman and his younger brother Matt launched Homestarrunner.net ("It's Dot.Com!"), creating what could possibly be the most family-friendly flash humor website available on the internets. More »

Strong Bad's Cool Game Slips To July

Mike Fahey — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:40:00 EDT

I just returned from a very pleasant lunch at a posh Dunwoody Georgia restaurant with Strong Bad creators Mike and Matt Chapman, where we discussed the upcoming WiiWare episodic adventure game Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive people, and while the meat of said lunch (mainly beef) will be revealed next week, I did learn that the first episode of the game won't be making the original June window. From the voice of Strong Bad himself, Matt Chapman: More »

Sam and Max Hit Retail In August

Mike Fahey — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:20:07 EDT

Telltale, the developers of the Sam and Max episodic adventure game, have announced a partnership with JoWooD Productions to bring the popular series to retail shelves this August. Sam and Max: Season 1 will collect the first six episodes into one retail boxed set, to be released worldwide in five languages, bringing many their first-ever taste of the dog and bunny detective duo. It is a delicious taste. More »

Clip: Sam and Max Episode 4 Trailer

Mike Fahey — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:40:07 EST

The President has gone crazy, and only one man can take care of the problem, and that man is Sam and Max. Technically a dog and a rabbit...thing, but if you stack them, perhaps. Here is the trailer four episode 4 of Telltale Games' series, which launches February 22nd on GameTap. More »

Telltale Working on Wii Adventure Game

Brian Crecente — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:00:12 EST

Go Nintendo points out that Telltale games is looking to hire a Wii systems programmer ASAP. More »

Sam & Max & Siliconera

egauger — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:20:23 EDT

Siliconera got to the recently-released Sam & Max via Gametap and are in the process of writing a comprehensive review, but a few key details made it out today: More »

Sam and Max: Culture Shock Goes Gold

egauger — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:40:16 EDT

Well, it's finally done and the newest trailer makes me even less excited than I have been. This nutless voice acting and subdued animation is just not up to the Sam and Max par, and frankly I'm just not looking forward to it anymore. More »

Sam & Max Hit the Wii (Maybe)

egauger — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:20:49 EDT

As iffy as I am on the graphics and voice acting in Telltale's new Sam and Max adventure, playing adventure games on the Wii is a fun prospect. Says Computer and Video Games: More »

Sam & Max Gameplay Videos

egauger — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:20:42 EDT

Telltale Games, developers of the upcoming Sam & Max Episode One: Culture Shock, have posted three gameplay videos in their blog. More »

The Return of Sam n' Max

egauger — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:55:42 EDT

GameVideos has a quiet little video of interviews with the folks at Telltale, who are currently working on the new Sam n' Max episodes. Each episode will be about an hour and a half, and from what I'm seeing here, it seems like these guys have a handle on what made the originals so good. Let's hope for some invovation without desecration, yeah? Eliza gauger More »

Race That Cow. Race It!

kotaku.com — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:40:00 EDT

Adventure game fans will be happy to hear that Bone: The Great Cow Race from Telltale Games is now available for download. Big-name studios have been neglecting the good old puzzle adventure of late, but indie developers are picking up the slack. There's a demo available to try before you buy, but remember: the better this does, the more likely they'll make a Sam and Max sequel. More »

Sam and Max Live!

kotaku.com — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:40:00 EST

Readers of taste and erudition may remember the LucasArts game Sam and Max Hit the Road, widely recognized by people welcome in my home as the finest puzzle-adventure game ever. LucasArts recently cancelled a Sam and Max sequel, and Steve Purcell — the creator, artist, and writer of the series — is instead creating new strips for Telltale Games. The strips come out irregularly, and involve awkward mousing to actually read the dialogue, but fans of Purcell's work don't really have a lot of options. The latest strip is out, so if you haven't already done so, start with Chapter One. More »

Sam & Max Back On The Road?

Michael McWhertor — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:30:02 EST

Rabid Sam & Max fans (and they're seemingly all rabid) got a bit of good news on the on-again, off-again sequel: it's really ON again. Telltale, who own the rights to the franchise, will be releasing episodic content for future Sam & Max adventures, but don't expect it for a long time. More »

Telltale CTO Talks "Storied Adventures"

lsmith — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:50:16 EST

Next Generation talks with Kevin Bruner, CTO of Telltale, on the company's outlook for distributing episodic content and digital distribution. Telltale, the company behind Grim Fandango and Monkey Island, is using a distribution model that circumvents publishers and gets products into the consumers hands quickly. "The old adventure games [we used to do at Lucas] we look at as feature film production. What we're doing here is more television studio-like," Bruner said. Episodic content that retains the adventure game-style of their previous work, I'm interested. More »