Monkey island is kind of a legendary series. PC point and click adventure games from Lucas Arts that, while maybe not the best games the company ever made in the genre (I think that title either goes to Sam and Max hit the road or Grim Fandango) are endlessly funny and replayable games.

The series follows the misadventures of Guybrush Threepwood, in his journey to become a notorious pirate and also to defeat the plans of evil pirate LeChuck. For context, these games started in 1990, so no, it was not ripping of Pirates of the Caribbean, if anything Pirates of the Caribbean ripped off Monkey Island.

Lucas film games (not LucasArts, they were shut down a few years back when disney acquired lucasfilm, RIP) have recently confirmed a new monkey island game, Named “return to monkey island” will be coming soon, and will be lead by the original writer and director of the series Ron Guilbert.

Alongside Guilbert, the trailer also confirms some other names returning to the series, such as composers Micheal Land, Peter McConnel and Clint Bajakian, as well as Dominic Armanto as the voice of Guybrush. Rex Crowle of Little big Planet and Tearaway fame is onboard as the art Lead.

The game is scheduled for a release late this year.

Guilbert had actually announced on april 1st that he was working on a new game, although many dismissed this as a joke. However, today he posted to his Blog “I felt bad about the April Fools’ joke so over the weekend I whipped up the game so no one was disappointed.” and along with it showed a trailer that had just dropped on devolver digitals youtube channel.

Guilbert has not worked on a monkey island game since the second installment, however Lucasarts did make 3 more games in that time, such as cures of Monkey Island in 1997, Escape from Monkey Island in 2000, and tales from Monkey island in 2009, which was also developed by telltale games.

Guilbert himself has recently done some work with double fine, studio of former Lucasarts employee Tim Schafer, working on “the cave” in 2013, as well as making tumbleweed park in 2017 with his new studio terrible toybox.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment have reportedly made a 5% investment in the US indie game company Devolver Digital!

Devolver Digital has built something of a name for itself in the industry for usually specializing in action-based 16-bit combat games with modern gameplay innovations. A must-play of theirs on all devices (to my knowledge) is BROFORCE (not Broforce, not Bro Force, BROFORCE): A 2D platformer-shooter hybrid wherein you get to play alone or in co-op (online or local) as various “bro”-ified versions of 80s and 90s action heroes from film and TV. And I swear, the one-liners from the bloke in “story” mode are hilarious! And while a VR would require me to sell more kidneys than I physically have to get one, Gorn is also a suitably hilarious action-filled romp from Devolver Digital. Speaking of VR, we have plenty of compatible games here at the store, including Skyrim VR for PS4 and PS5, The Persistence, Here They Lie and more.

Devlolver Digital has recently made a splash in the London Stock Exchange (LSE) according to GameIndustry.biz reports that the company has been trading on AIM (a sub-market in the LSE) after a flotation that values the company at almost… One BILLION dollars. Fieldfisher, a Europe-based advising law firm to Devolver confirmed the company received:

“A significant strategy investment from a key industry player”.

Upcoming titles with gameplay previews and trailers for Devolver include Weird West (think Disco Elysium meets Fistful of Dollars meets Lord of the Rings), Shadow Warrior 3 and Demon Throttle (AKA, “ain’t no school like the old school” The Game). A sequel to the peculiar puzzle game The Talos Principle was also announced for development.

More famous titles from Devolver include Hotline Miami (psst, you can get the Hotline collection HERE), the Takeshi’s Castle-inspired Fall Guys and most recently, the “reverse-horror” game Carrion, seeing you play as a monster based on John Carpenter’s The Thing.

CEO of Devolver Digital Douglas Morin has made the following statements:

“An IPO is the right choice for us to ensure our continued growth and support even more wonderful games”.

“Being a public company gives liquidity to our amazing team, all of whom are shareholders. It also gives us access to capital markets to continue investing in our growth strategy and talent”.

[Becoming a publicly traded company] “means Devolver Digital will be able to continue to invest into all the games we’re working on now, partner on new ones that we’ve previously not been able to consider, and add more of the fine people we love working with into our cadre of consummate video game professionals”.

Sony Interactive Entertainment said last week that its development workforce has grown by almost 20% this fiscal year

Douglas also announced closer collaborative work with developers from companies Devolver has collaborated with in the past, such as Croteam, Dodge Roll, Nerial (who made a game based on George Orwell’s Animal Farm of all things and I am Here For It) and FireFly Studios.

He also highlighted that “full creative autonomy” would continue to be encouraged amongst those working on Devolver Digital projects, which has personally made my art-boner fly high in the sky.

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“Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout” was released back in 2020. The game is based on extreme obstacle course game shows, like “Total Wipeout”, “Takeshi’s Castle” and “Ninja Warrior”. Players compete in Minigames, with people being knocked out of the running at the end of each, until only a single player is left standing.

“Squid game” is a Korean tv series currently streaming on Netflix. The show centers around a number of people who are trapped into competing in a series of minigames in the hope of earning a large amount of money. People who lose these games are killed off.

With this in mind, it makes sense that Squids game success may be an inspiration for Fallguys going forward. In an interview with techradar, Games designer for “Fall Guys” Joe Walsh mentioned that they may consider resurrecting a scrapped minigame after it appeared in squid game.

One of the first games played in “Squid Game” is redlight/greenlight, which was also considered early on as a minigame for Fallguys. However, Joe Walsh explains that this gamemode was dropped due to difficulty in implementation. Standing still in a video game is a lot easier than it is in real life, as players can just put down the controller or take their hands off the keyboard. However, after seeing squid games success, the developers are considering reworking the minigame to try to get it to work.

There are actually a number of fan-made versions of Squid game in Roblox and Fortnite, so the developers could potentially take inspiration from those. However they will want to strike fast, as at the current time there is no mention of a second season of Squid Game being on the way.

If this minigame makes it in, it could potentially help revitalise fallguys, which has been floundering since launch. If this happens, it would be a good chance to bring one of the more unique battle royal games back into the spotlight.

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