Sam & Max heading to PlayStation 3

By Robert Purchese Published 12 March, 2010

Five new episodes in Devil's Playhouse.

Episodic emperor Telltale will finally venture into PS3 territory this April with the launch of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.

The Devil's Playhouse is title of the overarching series. The first episode will be known as The Penal Zone and be released next month.

There will be five episodes in total and pre-orders are being taken from 18th March. Buy the lot and you'll receive a bulk discount, paying $29.99 for what usually costs $34.99.

Telltale is calling The Devil's Playhouse "the biggest, strangest and most epic" Sam & Max series "to date". Max will find himself shape shifting, teleporting and reading minds before the story concludes.

Telltale Games has established an enviable episodic business and turfed out content based on Sam & Max, Strong Bad, Wallace & Gromit and even Monkey Island over the last few years. PC has been the host platform, but Wii and Xbox 360 have seen their fair share of content.

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse will be available on PC and Mac as well.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Lee_Morris #1 2 years ago

    If they put up the first 2 seasons I'll bite on the 3rd but not before.

  • Doctor_What #2 2 years ago

    I've somehow completely missed all previous Sam & Max games, so would this make any sense to me?

  • Jonathan_Fakenham #3 2 years ago

    The seasons are completely stand alone. Might be there are 3 or 4 jokes you won't get completely, but you'll still laugh at them.

  • TopKatt #4 2 years ago

    I wonder if these will work with the Move? Seems like they would be ideally suited to it.

  • Murton #5 2 years ago

    Seems a strange decision to make the third available on the PS3 but not the first two.

    Brother gave me his disc for the first one on PC a couple years ago but I misplaced and then forgot all about it until season 2 was released. Will probably wait for some sort of bumper pack with all of them in one box now.

  • uzivatel #6 2 years ago

    What? No drama about Sony buying (timed) exclusivity?

  • Monkey_Puncher #7 2 years ago

    Am I alone when I say that I really didn't find the first 2 seasons of Sam and Max very funny?

  • RobotRocker #8 2 years ago

    What? No drama about Sony buying (timed) exclusivity?

    Not really. Telltale have been really smart and rotate exclusivity around for each console like WiiWare getting Strong Bad and Tales of Monkey Island first. XBLA getting Wallace and Grommit first and now PSN getting Sam and Max series 3 first. They eventually want to have all their games out on all the services and the games have some fairly low specs (Though Sam and Max season 3 is getting an obvious visual boost) that most mid-range PC's could run effortlessly so if someone wanted one of the series now, they could just get the PC version and not have to wait.

    They have done it really well so no one misses out and they don't attract fanboyism. Of course Destructoid could find some far flung corner of the internet for Fanboy Friday but no one wants to make Telltale cry. They are such nice people :3

    Am I alone when I say that I really didn't find the first 2 seasons of Sam and Max very funny?

    Season 1 was a bit dry till "Abe Lincoln Must Die!!" which was absolutely hilarious. Season 2 was a lot funnier and with their recent output, they seem to have really hit their stride in delivering the funnies. You should give Strong Bad or Tales of MI a go.
    Edited by 1 at 12/03/10 @ 18:54

  • TopKatt #9 2 years ago

    Jinx!

  • Diomedes #10 2 years ago

    Point and click would be great with Move controller..

  • TopKatt #11 2 years ago

    ^^

    Good point, well made.

  • WinterSnowblind #12 2 years ago

    But it's not a point and click game.

    Unfortunately they're using the same control method from Tales of Monkey Island. I assume the PS3 version will just have you directly controlling Sam & Max.

  • uzivatel #13 2 years ago

    @RobotRocker: They want their games on every platform possible ... which is great.
    That said if the game was not called Sam and Max, but lets say, Call of Duty, the comment section would be pretty nasty by now.

  • Murton #14 2 years ago

    Telltale have been really smart and rotate exclusivity around for each console like WiiWare getting Strong Bad and Tales of Monkey Island first. XBLA getting Wallace and Grommit first and now PSN getting Sam and Max series 3 first.

    This is their first outing on the PS3 though. The Monkey Island port is nowhere to be seen and neither are the first two seasons of Sam of Max. While it's certainly a good idea to give first dibs on rotation it doesn't really work in this particular instance where the previous games are MIA on the current "first dibs" platform.

  • WinterSnowblind #15 2 years ago

    I don't really buy the whole rotation thing either.

    TTG in the past have said they had difficulties with the PS3, but have wanted to bring their games to it. I don't think Tales of Monkey Island performed particularly well on the Wii, and the episdoc format of Wallace & Gromit on the 360 turned very expensive. Since then they've simply released the games in full seasons, once all the episodes are out, which is what I suspect they'll do again here.

    The choice to go with the PS3 first seems to simply be because they can make it episodic, you pay the full price and get each episode as they're released, just as on the PC.

  • JeroenZM #16 2 years ago

    Still waiting for Season 2 to arrive on the Wii.

  • KDR_11k #17 2 years ago

    I've somehow completely missed all previous Sam & Max games, so would this make any sense to me?

    Yeah but I'd still say you should play the earlier episodes because they're good.

  • RobotRocker #18 2 years ago

    The choice to go with the PS3 first seems to simply be because they can make it episodic, you pay the full price and get each episode as they're released, just as on the PC.

    Actually David Grossman (Telltale's design director) told EG before that ""Normally what we do is PC and one of the other platforms, and we've been bouncing back and forth between them."

    [link url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/xbla-tal es-of-monkey-island-possible
    ]http://ww w.eurogamer.net/articles/xbla-t...[/link]

    It really is just PSN's turn for an exclusive now Telltale have the capability to develop for PSN.

    The Monkey Island port is nowhere to be seen and neither are the first two seasons of Sam of Max.

    The first two Seasons of Sam and Max are out on the Wii as discs and XBLA as downloads. They will probably hit PSN soon after Devil's Playhouse is finished so they can complete the set while Wii and XBLA get Devil's Playhouse as a disc and season pack respectively. Tales of MI is probably going to get a season pack on XBLA/PSN around the time that Monkey Island 2 SE is released. Wallace and Grommit will probably get a PSN season pack and a Wii disc as well. Its all down to TTG's time and resources but they generally are committed to getting their games on every download service.

    A Strong Bad season pack is probably going to arrive too though 360 and PS3 owners don't seem like they would be capable of handling Strong Bad's style. Trufax.

  • Moribundman #19 2 years ago

    Buying every single season on PC, then on XBLA too. Telltale can do NO wrong.

    Brilliant that they are releasing all their games on the Mac now too... If you own Monkey Island on the PC you can download it for the Mac and use the same licence key for a copy there too!

    Between this and Steam, publishers are seriously going to give the PC a run for its money between keeping console gamers and Mac gamers happy with games released for PC. Not sure whether this is a good thing or a bad thing...