Calling Vienna
For the past few years our fans in Vienna have held an annual Monkey Island Memorial party where they celebrate all things Monkey. This year, however, they decided with the announcement of two new Monkey Island games that they would change the party from a memorial to a revival. We could, unfortunately, make it in person to join them this year (maybe next year?) so instead we recorded a quick little message to them.
And check out pictures from past parties at: http://www.monkeyislandmemorial.com
Guardian UK Interview
Check out my latest Monkey Island interview on The Guardian UK's Games Blog website. Click the image for the redirect:
Destructoid Interview
Brief interview with Destructoid talking about the reasons for updating Monkey Island. Read the interview at: http://www.destructoid.com/producer-tells-us-why-lucasarts-updated-monkey-island-136578.phtml
Descent Forever?
Interplay has a brand new website up with dedicated pages to some of their previous games, including Descent! Not really sure where this image above comes from, but I assume it's new. Too bad they didn't get those Pyro-GX's quite right, but it's still cool to see something fresh from the world of Descent.
TFU is the Fastest-Selling Star Wars Game Ever
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed has become the fastest-selling Star Wars game of all time, according to a release from LucasArts, with the title selling 1.5 million copies globally across six platforms in the first five days of sale.
Click the picture for the rest of the article at Gamasutra.com
The Phoenix
Their website only has the image below, but it seems Interplay is about to rise from the ashes. Here's hoping they get their act together soon enough to make a totally kick-ass, next-gen uh, current-gen version of Descent!
Check it out for yourself at: www.interplay.com
Meeting Ralph McQuarrie
I had the great honor and privilege of meeting the legendary Ralph McQuarrie! For the uninformed check out the website of the man responsible for the incredible visual and conceptual design of the Original Star Wars trilogy.
Visit Mr. McQuarrie's site at: http://www.ralphmcquarrie.com
LEGO Star Wars II
There are a lot of perks at working at LucasArts. There are incredibly talented people everywhere! There's an amazing campus with a spectacular view of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Palace of Fine Arts, and downtown San Francisco. The dining commons offers a variety of different types of meals for lunch that change daily. Our on-site gym ensures that you can work off all those different lunches and the tasty desserts too.
But every so often the best perk we get is cool free stuff!
This past Tuesday saw the release of Lego Star Wars II for every game console and this year's collection of the Original Star Wars DVD's with the unaltered versions of the classics. Lego Star Wars looked pretty good and I was probably going to pick it up, but I wasn't so sure about the movies. Luckily, I didn't have to because at lunch they gave away a copy of the game (I picked the 360 version) and each of the DVD's for free!
Very Special Thanks, Uncle George!