Great news, everyone

Monkey Island is back!
LucasArts, as rumored, are making an HD version of the original game, with hand-drawn 2D graphics and full voice-overs (starring at least the same voice for Guybrush as the last couple games)

Check out the video here: LucasArts Monkey Island site

Perhaps more interestingly, Telltale Games (who made the new Sam & Max series, the Strong Bad games, and the current Wallace and Gromit games) are making a new Monkey Island series as well! (Also starring the real Guybrush voice!)

More info here: Telltale Monkey Island site The trailer there isn’t too good, but the concept art is nice, and the “Team” page has some impressive credentials on it. Ron Gilbert was also consulted.

Finally, on a not-exciting-pirate-news note, the Beatles: Rock Band trailer looks great. Seems like a lot of song-specific effects are going into it, which is great.
Beatles: Rock Band trailer

osu! on iPod Touch using Pogo stylus

Thought you guys might appreciate some gameplay videos:

Mr Brightside
Girlfriend and Tom Sawyer
I’m On A Boat

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I’m really digging the iPod Touch. Tap Tap Revenge 2 is amazing for a free game, and there are a lot of really neat apps on there. Also, when going to the gym, it is pretty nice to have an mp3 player that isn’t my DS. And yes, the Pogo Sketch stylus is must-have. Actually touching a touch screen is such an uncivilized thing to do… but more importantly, the level of precision and intuitiveness skyrockets when using a stylus.

Game pages added!

Now that I have my own real website of sorts, I’ve added pages for my two fully playable games, the retro flash game “Knight of the Robots” and its downloadable sequel, “Atlantis Escape.” In the first, Martin the Adventurer must fight off an angry horde of 100 robots to protect his spooky space castle. In the second, Martin finds himself stranded in the ancient ruins of Atlantis, forced to battle mutant aquatic life, armed with nothing but the weapons he finds scattered around the ruins.

Play them both today! (They’re both pretty short!)

Knight of the Robots

Atlantis Escape

Failchess

After all these years, they finally make an officially licensed Super Mario chess set. Let’s take a look at the character choices, shall we? They’re different than what I would have chosen. We’ll start with the highest ranking and precede down the list until we find a complete travesty:

1. The king is Mario. Good choice.
2. The queen is Luigi. While I would have … picked …

WHAT THE ****?!