Console Monster writes: "On rare occasions, video games have been based on television programmes with already-established fan bases. Take the recent: "The Simpsons Game" for example. Whilst it released close to The Simpsons Movie, it was an entirely new game, with storylines that Simpsons' fans will not have witnessed before. The latest title to come from this diminutive genre is Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures. The game is the first of four episodes revealed last year by Telltale Games, who had obtained the right to release the series on the PC and the Xbox LIVE Arcade.
The first episode, titled Fright of the Bumblebees, sees Wallace and Gromit producing 50 gallons of honey for the tea and crumpet festival - how very British - to pay off their debt caused by one of Wallace's crazy conceptions, though the amount seems too much for the pair's bees to handle unless they can obtain enough flowers. Fortunately, Wallace comes up with a formula to increase the growth rate of some seeds, inspired by a muscle formula advertised on a leaflet he got through the letterbox. Being Wallace and Gromit, it was never going to be smooth-sailing and in growing the flowers, Wallace also grew the bees, causing unrest on West Wallaby Street..."
GamerZines: Telltale Games' Dan Connors has revealed that his company makes nearly 40% of its revenue from the various console platforms, proving that it's worth porting the likes of Sam & Max and Monkey Island to the PS3, 360 and Wii.
"We generally launch with one console partner during the run of the season, and usually does about 40 per cent of the revenue," Explained the CEO in a recent interview.
I love Sam and Max. I got the PC version but I caved in and also bought the PS3 version.
Following Sony's announcements of the April Foolishness Sale and PSP Favourites promotion earlier this week, Microsoft has today revealed a cost-cutting activity of their own. From today, eight top titles held on the Xbox 360's Xbox LIVE Arcade are available for half-price, and two further titles are set to be greatly reduced. These sale prices are limited however, available for only seven days.
... and nothing on that list really interests me. Bit of a disappointment.
When the hell are they finally gonna discount TrialsHD!?
Splosion man would be a good for me when it gets a price drop.
SSF2HD is not bad. Schizoid was pretty fun so maybe.
I love sales like these.
I will buy pretty much anything when it's around 4 or 5 dollars.
Trials HD is continually one of the best selling arcade titles week after week, i wouldn't imagine they would offer it on sale if they didnt need to
Well, I'm partly glad they actually didn't lessen the prices of XBLA games I've been wanting for a while because I didn't take my 360 away with me over this week.
...it's not "inventory", if it's only available as a digital download. Just sayin'....
From Gamertell:
"Telltale Inc. today (February 11, 2010) confirmed during the Macworld 2010 expo that it will, indeed, be releasing games for Mac.
Even better, the releases begin today (February 11, 2010) with Tales of Monkey Island."
Games can also vote on the next Telltale series style game to be release in March for Mac.
