Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal Review: Back To The Island

The original “Monkey Island” games have always held a special place in adventure gamers’ hearts. It introduced a humorous perspective on voodoos and pirates as they controlled Guybrush Threepwood into all sorts of crazy situations. Now that Telltale Games has decided to resurrect this franchise after an eight year sleep, will “Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal,” the first episode of the series ready to set sail or will it just sink? [Continue Reading]

PS3 Episodic Comedy ‘Rat Race’ Comes Back From The Dead

It’s not often that a game comes back from being canceled, but it looks like that’s exactly what’s happened for the episodic comedy game “Rat Race.” The game, which was announced in late 2007, quietly faded into obscurity when the president of Sony’s Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, was quoted as saying it was canceled at last year’s E3. However, “Rat Race,” which is being developed by Super-Ego Games, may be about to come back to life. Last week I spoke with Bo Lasater, one of Super-Ego’s co-founders, and asked him whether or not “Rat Race” was dead, and he responded with, “Is Rat Race dead? No, it is not dead. Is it 100% alive? Maybe the patient is coming out of a coma.”

So, if one of Sony’s studio presidents declares your game dead, and you say it’s just in a coma… where do things really stand? In terms of “Rat Race”’s future, things look pretty good, so much so that the first episode of the game could come out next week. But it won’t. Aside from being in the queue at Sony for certification, the game technically has no has yet to announce a new publisher to release it (”Rat Race” does in fact have a publisher), since it’s no longer a first party Sony title. [Continue Reading]