Today at the 2010 Game Developers Conference Telltale revealed the third season of its Sam & Max episodic adventure series. Titled "The Devil's Playhouse," the third series airs April 15 on the PlayStation Network, PC, and Mac. This is the first time Sam & Max are appearing on the PlayStation 3 and also the first time the series will debut on three platforms simultaneously.
The franchises that deserve another day in the sun - even if those who own them disagree.
Ironically Tell Tale was founded to give franchises like Sam and Max a second chance after LucasArts cancelled it. Now they've also gotten to big to want to touch the franchise.
Singularity, Bulletstorm and Snatcher come to mind. People Can Fly are rumored to be working on a Bulletstorm sequel though which makes me very happy :3
The last few years have been an interesting time for the adventure game genre. After a decade of disappointment, fans finally started to see more and more titles appear and most importantly, become successes. Big changes in the industry, such as the rise of digital distribution and the popularity of episodic content created a more favorable environment to craft these games in. More opportunities for indie developers started to appear as well.
Those wonderful individuals at Telltale Games have done it again! The new series of Sam & Max started out strong with the release of Episode 1: The Penal Zone last month, but AMO never imagined in a million years that Episode 2 would trump that prior outing so quickly. Yet, with The Tomb Of Sammun-Mak, they may well have done just that. Ladies and gentleman, the bar for this brand new series featuring our favourite crime solving anthropomorphic dog and his hyperkinetic rabbity thing sidekick has just been raised!
