Why post real gaming news when there are free games to be downloaded? Telltale Games, the company sometimes credited for singlehandedly reviving the adventure genre, is observing Trogday by making Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People: 8 Bit is Enough absolutely free. For the next four hours. If you’ve never heard of Trogday, you [...]

In the launch wake of Tales of Monkey Island, complaints have surfaced about the Wii port’s framerate. A compromised port isn’t normally news, but one of Telltale’s programmers has responded (vi gamezine) to the complaints by drawing some unflattering comparisons to Nintendo’s Wii, and there’s no news like some juicy gossip. The programmer is registered [...]

Like an infatuated zombie pirate, The Monkey Island series has returned from parts unknown to perform unspeakable acts on your brains. It’s pushing eight years since the last installment, which was less well received than its three predecessors, so you may be wondering if this is a revival or betrayal of the brand.

In what is apparently an effort to put the point back into point and click adventure games, the first season of episodes from the Sam and Max games will be hitting the Wii on October 7. The series has been available on the PC for some time now and it’s a bit more expensive on [...]