Look behind you! A Three-Headed Monkey!

Well, the unthinkable has happened: they're actually making a new Monkey Island game.

It's okay, I'll wait for you to glue your brain back together again just in time for me to BLOW IT APART: Tales of Monkey Island is being made by Telltale games, the dudes that made, among other things, the new Sam n' Max and the Strongbad Games. ALSO: they were the group of people who used to be the Adventure Game unit back at LucasArts in the old days when LucasArts made really good games, not highly questionable Star Wars shooters.

For example: the lead guy on the new Monkey Island is Dave Grossman, who was one-third of the team on the original Secret of Monkey Island along with Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer, not to mention the co-designer of Day of the Tentacle. And, they've brought a whole stack of the old team along as well, including Michael Land (the guy who wrote the music for the Monkey Island games and just about every other LucasArts game) and Dominic Armato (who played Guybrush in Monkey Island 3 & 4).

But wait, why stop there? At the same time, LucasArts is also releasing a remake of the original Secrect of Monkey Island, all tricked out for modern systems - but with the ability to switch back and forth to the old version.

Before you ask, Ron Gilbert has some awesome things to say about the situation.

Towards the end, he makes an excellent point. By the end of the year, he, Dave Grossman, and Tim Schafer will all have new games out. IS THIS THE END OF THE WORLD?


Its the end of the world for SUCKY GAMES, I can tell you that.