Attn. Adventure Gamers: Monkey Island is Back!

While adventure games are nowhere near as popular as they once were in the classic days of PC gaming, Telltale games have been keeping the tradition going alongside a new concept in games – episodic releases.

Combine old with new and this summer and we’ll be getting Monkey Island. Telltale games will be making five monthly episodes of Tales of Monkey Island for the PC and WiiWare, with the first one launching on July 7.

Check out the trailer below:

LucasArts isn’t just dumping Monkey Island on Telltale, but rather it is working on a game for fans of the series. Also hitting this summer will be Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, which faithfully recreates every scene from the original release from 1990, but gives it an optional layer of fresh paint. Players can switch back and forth from the new painted art and the original pixilated renditions.

Check out the making of video below:

Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
  • Tindytim
    HHHHHHHHHH

    *breathing heavily*

    Please tell me this isn't a joke, if you're messing with me, I'm going into a murderous rage.
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  • anamaniac
    Remaking a classic - Good.
    Doing a horrid job - Bad.

    Seriously, looks like a flash game...
    If you're remaking something, make it modern.
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  • Tindytim
    anamaniacSeriously, looks like a flash game...If you're remaking something, make it modern.I would disagree, it maybe in a vector format though, which would be smart if you want to support all resolutions (so in the future, you could play at resolutions much greater than what we have now, and it would still work great).
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  • AdamB5000
    I loved the original.

    The only thing that appealed to me in that video was the music and his hot wife.
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  • Spanky Deluxe
    ZOMGZOMGZOMG!!!!!
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  • This has actually taken them much longer to get to than it should have. This was revealed much earlier in the week, possibly even monday, but definately tuesday.
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  • Herbert_HA
    It's just so freaking awesome! Let's hope the give the genre another try.
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  • Herbert_HA
    It's just so freaking awesome! Let's hope the give the genre another try.
    Reply
  • Master Exon
    anamaniacRemaking a classic - Good.Doing a horrid job - Bad.Seriously, looks like a flash game...If you're remaking something, make it modern.What flash games are you playing? I want to play these flash games with GC/xbox/Wii level graphics.
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  • dimar
    Awesome. I really hope they support widescreens ratios and high resolutions.
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