Telltale website down, new Monkey Island almost here!

Ok, I just got back from going out for drinks and checked to see if the new Monkey Island is out in order to buy and download the first episode from the telltale website. The site appears to be down. This can mean one of two things. Their servers could not manage the traffic 'cause tens of thousands of people are trying to do the same thing as me, or they took the site down for maintenance to upload the new game. At either case I initally got a maintenance screen and after a few minutes I could not even connect which meant the their server was down.

This is what telltale website is showning at the time of writing

At any rate the new Monkey island is almost here. This with the Lucas making their old loved adventures, such as Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and Loom, available for purchase from Steam tommorow feels excellent. Adventures have just come back to mainstream and are making headlines again...Hoorey!!!

UPDATE:
The game is out and available for purchase from both telltale website and Steam.

New Monkey Island games!

One of the greatest adventure games series is back with not one but two games!

Telltale Games is creating Tales Of Monkey Island which will be released in 5 monthly episodes starting July 7. Here is the trailer for the game:



The second game, created by Lucas Arts, is Secret Of Monkey Island: Special Edition and it will be a remake of the original game with HD graphics, remastered score and voiceover work. It will also have a cool feature where you will be able to swap between the old and the new look of the game any time you want. For more info and a look of the game there is a very interesting making of video on the official site.

This is a very good chance for younger people to discover one of the best games ever created and a chance for older people to re-discover the Secret Of The Monkey Island.