Update: Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People has been removed from sale on Steam. Meaning it's now Strong Bad's Cool Game For People Who Bought It Before June 1st.
Original Story: Telltale can “no longer sell” the 2008 episodic comedy Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People, the developer announced in yesterday’s blog post. The studio have apparently lost the rights to the game and the series may or may not be pulled from storefronts soon, based on the slightly unclear wording of their notice.
]]>The sad saga of Telltale's fall is due one last tragic chapter. GOG have just announced that all of the defunct choose-your-own-adventure studio's games will be de-listed next Monday, May 27th at 11am BST. That includes Telltale's own games like Puzzle Agent, and all three seasons of Sam & Max adventures, as well as licensed games like The Wolf Among Us, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Batman, and the excellent Tales From The Borderlands. The last of which has already been removed from Steam, though publisher 2K Games are working to bring it (and it alone) back, as reported by Eurogamer.
]]>Following yesterday's initial reports that Telltale Games were effectively shutting down, the studio behind licensed story 'em ups including The Walking Dead and Batman: The Enemy Within have confirmed the bad news. All but 25 Telltale employees have been let go (that's 250-ish people gone, former members report), cut down to a skeleton crew to "fulfil the company's obligations to its board and partners." The studio say they've had "a year marked by insurmountable challenges." Telltale haven't yet confirmed quite what will happen to their past, present, and future games, saying they'll talk about their portfolio "in the coming weeks", but I wouldn't expect much more from them. What a sorry mess.
]]>Trogdor is a dragon borne of the Internet, like something out of Shadowrun, and January 13th saw him turn 15 years old. Trogdor, for the uninitiated, is a 12-year-old’s awesome notebook doodle, a dragon shaped like the letter S with an inexplicably beefy human arm coming out of his back. He's a recurring character from the webseries Homestar Runner, cartoons which followed the childish obsessions of a gang of funny little scribble men, including the supernaturally stupid Homestar and the real main character, Strong Bad, whose main hobbies are checking his email and antagonizing his fans. Let's take a look at the Homestar world’s relationship with nostalgia and its impact on PC gaming history.
]]>Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.
Homestar Runner is alive again! Not nearly as alive as it once was, but there have been Halloween cartoons the last two years, and hints that the Brothers Chap are learning HTML5 to replace the aged Flash site. Which is all a very good reason to embrace what was previously the animation's swansong, a series of adventures made with Telltale.
]]>You know that there are adventure games, and you know that some of those adventure games are better than others. But do you know which one is best, and which one is twenty-fifth best? Well, at last you can find out, with our definitive, unimpeachable breakdown of adventure gaming's best moments.
]]>Lauri was the first to mail us with news that Telltale are teasing us furiously via the medium of Gametrailers. A short footage stating "Bet you never thought these guys would get together", followed by silhouettes of Him from Penny Arcade, Him from Sam 'n' Max, Him from Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People and - unless our eyes deceive us - him from Team Fortress 2. Holding - er - cards? They seem to be cards. What could it be? A videogame, that's what. It's not going to be a fridge decoration. We'll know on September 2nd and the teaser trailer follows...
]]>I'm not sure for how much longer this will last, so get in quick. Telltale's best series, Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People, is currently available in full (all five episodes) for £4 on Steam. That's... all five for less than the price of one episode on release. It's 82% off the full price. Each game takes a couple of hours, so by my maths that's ten hours for four quid. Or 40p an hour. What else can you do for 40p an hour? Park in Malmesbury, that's what. But I'm going to contend that SBCG4AP is even more fun than that.
]]>Well apparently it's Trogday. If you're a fan of Homestar Runner, you're probably as sad about the lack of new content on the site as me. Just because one of the Bros. Chaps had a baby doesn't mean they can miss a Decemberween cartoon, the lazy buggers. If you're not a fan, you've no idea what this is about and you're thinking of clicking away. But wait! A great way to find out would be to get a free episode of Telltale's really fantastic Strong Bad adventures. For today only they're giving away episode 5 (the last in the series, oddly) for free. And it's well worth getting hold of.
]]>To conclude our Pulitzer Prize nominated coverage* of the war that has broken out between Telltale and made up company Videlectrix (made up of moustachioed geniuses, that is), below is our interview with the CEO of Telltale, Dan Connors, in which we grill him about the controversy in a way that makes other games journalists look like the frightened, corporate-bought cowards they truly are. But before that, learn more about the torrid situation with the third and final part of Behind The Bad - the behind-the-scenes exposé of life at Telltale working with Strong Bad.
]]>While there was almost another Telltale-related controversy yesterday, it remains completely shadowed by the rift between Telltale and Videlectrix that we first reported last week. For those unaware, Videlectrix claim to have been making cutting edge videogames for the last thirty years, and more recently have been closely affiliated with the Homestar Runner website. Their output includes classics like Salad Daze, Pigs On Head, and of course Thy Dungeonman 3. It's literally impossible to calculate their impact on the gaming industry. Creative differences over the direction of the Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People episodic adventures have spilled over into the public in an ugly foray. Determined to prove there's investigative journalism alive and well in the games media, Rock, Paper, Shotgun conducted a world exclusive interview with both developers at Videlectrix, in an attempt to uncover the Whole Truth.
]]>The final episode of the good fun Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People series is out now, with a demo available. It's the second best of the five (the fabulous Episode 3 beating it), with some top-notch nonsense, and Mike Stemmle Chuck Jordan on puzzle duty, with Mike Stemmle at his side. And of course features the mighty Trogdor, as well as many other favourite Videlectrix characters, including the world of 20X6. A tip-top episode, well worth your money. However, there was briefly some controversy afoot in that regard.
The Strong Bad episodic adventures come to an end later this month with the final chapter, 8-Bit Is Enough. In the meantime, there's something of a spat occurring between developer/publisher Telltale and their development partner, Videlectrix. The details are below, along with statements from both companies, and a trailer for the next episode.
]]>Telltale's Strong Bad episodic adventures continue to prove themselves leagues ahead of the disappointing Sam & Max series (yeah, want to fight about it?). Episode 3 was completely stunning, some of the finest adventure gaming I've had in a very long while. In case you missed it, you can get the demo here. And now the demo for the next episode is out, and here's the full title:
Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People: Episode 4: Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective
Is that a record?
]]>Monthly releases come around so quickly. There's another demo for the freshly available second episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People. Definitely worth checking out.
]]>Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People: Episode One - Homestar Ruiner is out, and blimey, it's good. It's not been much of a secret that I've not been a big fan of Telltale's Sam & Max games. So I'm delighted to report that I enjoyed Strong Bad's game. I'll say no more, as reviews are due to appear in printed form. Meanwhile, there's a demo, so you can see for yourself. I'd say a fondness for the Homestar Runner cartoons is a bit of a must - if you don't like them, you'll likely not get much from the game. But if you don't like them, then you're a dreadful sort and it serves you right.
]]>Telltale have released details about the first episode of the Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People, as well as the first gameplay footage.
Screenshots (click on them for fullsize) and details lie below.
]]>A few weeks back we heard the splendid news that LucasArts alumnus Mike Stemmle had joined Telltale. As one half of the team that created the original Sam & Max: Hit The Road, who better to get involved? So we got in touch and spoke to the man, finding out what he's been up to in the meantime, what it's like to return to S&M after all those years, the potential for the modern adventure, and how former colleague Sean Clark should have been a lot more careful at Mike's wedding.
RPS: The last time I saw you was in the depths of LucasArts, midway through the development of Monkey Island 4. So my first question has to be, does your office still look like this?
(Click for the full glory)
]]>Coming to you live from San Francisco, on a Top Secret Mission for RPS, I'm excited enough to struggle with typing out a post on my EEE (sausge fingers vs. tiny tech) to tell you that there's to be an episodic game featuring Strong Bad. Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People.
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