Sam & Max Episode 102: Situation Comedy

Telltale Game's website is hinting that detective duo Sam & Max could return in 2010.

The first season of Telltale's episodic adventure series Sam & Max is to be released via Xbox Live next week.

Telltale Inc. plans to unveil a new adventure series at E3, following the million-episode-selling success of Sam & Max, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People and Wallace and Gromit.

Telltale Games' Kevin Bruner admits that the schedule for Sam & Max episodes was "unrelenting", but says he wouldn't have it any other way.

Telltale Games has revealed details of the sixth Sam & Max crime-caper that will bring the first season of episodic games to an end.

The fifth crime-caper in the Sam & Max series will be available in Europe on 12th April, although those of you in North America and Canada will be able to get it via GameTap on 29th March.

Telltale CEO Dan Connors fully expects the episodic Sam & Max adventure series to continue into a second series, and has confirmed that the developer is working on games for Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii - and aims to produce for all three next-gen consoles.

JoWooD's revealed it will be boxing all six Sam & Max games in one handy package for retail consumption this August.

Telltale has admitted it would "look closely" at releasing a potential Sam & Max project via Live Arcade.

We've always wanted to kill Abe Lincoln, which is why we're grinning like drunken park-bench inhabitants this morning at news that Sam & Max Episode 4 will be released on 8th March.

In a similar deal to previous instalments, the game will go live on GameTap first (22nd March), then become available from the Telltale Store for US$ 8.95 - about four and a half potatoes in real money.

Sam & Max Episode 4: Abe Lincoln Must Die once again rejoins detective dog and rampant rabbit as they ship off to Washington to take care of a doolally president. It's down to you to sort the old bean out, whilst dealing with uprising powers intent on exploiting the man's weakness.

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Much like an Italian mobster wobbling a flabby paunch down to the local family deli, you can head over to the Telltale Store and get yourself Sam & Max: Episode 3: The Mole, The Mob, and The Meatball.

Sam & Max developer is hunting around for a Wii programmer. THEY MUST BE MAKING SAM & MAX FOR WII THEN!

The names of the next three Sam & Max crime capers have emerged on the Telltale Games website.

Having Sam & Max back in our gaming lives is gift-wrapped joy. The fact that Telltale can, in 2007, stay true to the original point and click adventure premise is probably the most remarkable thing about Sam & Max's belated comeback after an absence of some 13 years. Everything else - including the quality of the gags on offer - is one hell of a bonus.

What made us all the more giddy was how - for little over £4 - Telltale reunited us with our favourite fictional crime-fighting duo in such heart-warming style that managed to nail so many of the reasons why we loved the original. In many ways, it was like they'd never been away, complete with a long list of typically unhinged quips from Max, a faithfully updated visual style, spot-on voice actors (in the regrettable absence of the original cast), unobtrusive interface and even a jazz-tinged soundtrack. With three or so hours of chucklesome gameplay provided for the price of a rubbish cup of coffee, who could argue?

Well, evidently a few miserable sods in Nothing's Ever As Good As The Original land still had a few words to say against Episode 1 - Culture Shock. A few noted (fairly) that the puzzles weren't all that challenging, that there weren't enough locations (again, fair comment), while others opined (bizarrely) that it was Officially Not Funny, while others mused (strangely) that they'd rather have one long game than six short ones. Honestly, there's no pleasing some folk. Here's a small company that needs all the support it can get trying its hand at The Future, charging very little and still getting stick. Someone's got to try it, and what better than a game based around discrete, self-contained narrative nuggets?

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The second episode of the new Sam & Max series is now available for GBP 4.60 (EUR 6.88) from the game's website, along with a free trial version.

The demo weighs in at 71MB and contains the entire episode's content, unlockable by purchasing a licence key online.

Situation: Comedy tells the story of a talk show host who's gone berserk and is now holding her unsuspecting audience hostage. Detective dog and rampant rabbit are called in to find out why, but first they'll have to prove that they're worthy of the limelight if they want to gain access to the stage.

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Sam & Max's second episodic return will be called "Situation: Comedy", according to developer Telltale Games, and you can expect to buy it on 5th January.

That's if you're using the developer's official website, of course - if you're using GameTap instead, you can grab it from 21st December.

For more on the new episode, be sure to hit the episode two website, where you can also read the following blurb, which we're reprinting here in case there aren't enough paragraphs:

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The first instalment in Telltale Games' episodic revival of LucasArts' adventure classic Sam & Max is now available to download and buy on the developer's website.

Individual episodes in Telltale's first "season" of Sam & Max will cost just US$ 8.95, the developer announced this week - with all six available for US$ 34.95.

As previously announced, Telltale's done a deal with digital distribution company GameTap, meaning that the first episode, Culture Shock, will debut there on 17th October before it's made available at Telltale's website on 1st November.

After that, the other five episodes will follow at monthly intervals, each enjoying 15 days of GameTap exclusivity.

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Telltale Studios is inviting fans to write letters and emails trying to get Nintendo interested in a Sam & Max game for Wii.

The long-awaited return of cult adventuring duo Sam & Max is only just over a month away, with the first of six planned episodes nearly ready for download.

Telltale Games has announced that the first episode in the new Sam & Max series will be making its debut in time for Christmas.

And to celebrate, they've released a new trailer - it's available for viewing right now over on Eurogamer TV.

It's been a long time since S&M's last point and click adventure - more than a decade, in fact. Little is known about the new title, other than the fact that it'll be released in the form of a series of episodes via GameTap and is nothing to do with the Sam & Max project that LucasArts pulled the plug on just over two years ago. Here's hoping we'll get some new info soon...

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Telltale Games has launched a website to promote the new Sam & Max game that's currently in development.

It features a concept pic of the daring duo and some answers to some FAQs, along with a link to the new S&M message board.

Probably the best news for fans of the classic point and click adventure is that series creator Steve Purcell will be working closely with the development team: "Sam & Max are very near and dear to Steve, so he will be very involved in the projects," the website states.

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Telltale Games has confirmed to Eurogamer that a new Sam & Max game is currently in development.

In a recent interview at Gamesutra, Sam & Max creator Steve Purcell (currently working for film animation studio Pixar) expressed that he would like to get back into games development: "Would I get back into games? Sure. The [Sam & Max] license is back in my hands now so we'll see what happens in the near future."