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Being in the middle of pirate themes nowadays, and being an old Monkey Island fan makes me go and search for the old stuff. Remember the funny “A Pirate I was Meant To Be” Song in Monkey Island 3?

Lovely isn’t it :). Well here is a new remake modern version of it: “A fanboy I was meant to be!”

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A nice and neat new feature from Google. Google Experimental lets you search for terms and see their results and events over the course of Timeline. The service is still new and you can see lots of empty gaps even when you search for Google. You can enjoy searching for your favorite topics like Monkey Island or Sam & Max. See how the Sam & Max comics started in 80’s, was turned into a game in 93, strange announcement from The Adventure Company and Telltale to bring Sam & Max season 1 to stores in 1996! (That’s one flaw) The real link points to PDF document dated 2007. How in 2002 there was a hope for Sam & Max 2, 2004 marked the death of adventure games at Lucasarts. It’s still in testing phase, but quite fun and useful too.

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The long awaited and anticipated A Vampyre Story adventure game, which has been delayed for months and months in failing attempts to sign a publisher, is now getting publishers fighting over after seeing the potential it has. It reminds me of the chicken that was planting seeds, only after it was fresh to eat people started gathering. For few days now, I have been getting alerts to the Google Alert I have “(vampyre story) OR amegames”. You can tell how much I am waitig for the game, and if you are too, I suggest you subscribe to the same news. Here is what I got today:

Google News Alert for: (vampyre story) OR amegames

Ascaron Brings ‘A Vampyre Story‘ to the UK
WorthPlaying.com - Oakland,CA,USA
“A Vampyre Story” is the creation of Bill Tiller and his new studio Autumn Moon Entertainment. A former employee of Lucas Arts, Tiller won himself a place …
See all stories on this topic

Google Blogs Alert for: (vampyre story) OR amegames

93 Games Publishing Vampyre Story
93 Games have announced they have secured the rights to publish A Vampyre Story in the UK.”A Vampyre Story” is the creation of Bill Tiller and his new…
news0r - http://www.news0r.com/index.php

Ascaron Signs A Vampyre Story
To be published by Ascaron.
GamersHell.com - PC News (Most Recent) - http://www.gamershell.com

Gallery: A Vampyre Story
By play.tm@ferrago.com (play.tm team)
Latest screens.
play™ - http://play.tm

Google Web Alert for: (vampyre story) OR amegames

IGN: A Vampyre Story Screenshots, Wallpapers and Pics
IGN is the ultimate resource for A Vampyre Story screenshots, wallpapers, pictures, photos, images and pics.

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Or should I say Happy Birthday Ron? This years marks the 20th anniversary of SCUMM, the scripting utility Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert created to aid in the development of adventure game Maniac Mansion. The utility became the foundation of many other adventure games, like the legendary Monkey Island. A virtual machine is in place now and is adapted to different platforms to keep the old franchise playable. Nintendo DS now is able to play the old games while you are on the move. Read a short interview with Ron Gilbert on IGN.

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Following the high reviews it received, and my friend Kroms’s nagging and pushing, I decided to ignore my demo perception and still buy Psychonauts. After all, how much would it cost? $9 only on Amazon. I didn’t want however to pay for the shipping, so I thought of looking for a downloadable soft version of the game when I landed on Double Fine (developing company of the game) and guess what? The game costs $40, and it even goes up to $50 for the signed version of it! How on earth does that happen? The game costs 4 times the price of Amazon, who are offering it through a reseller, where everyone is taking small part of the share. I’m not sure their shop is working for real, but obviously no one is updating it. Best top anticipated game launches at $49.99 at most (same applies for PS3 games here), one year later, even the best game’s price goes to as low as $12. New games are coming, no one is gonna look at the old games any more. Anyways, I had to go with the shipping cost option from Amazon, and on the way dropped a few more nice games in the basket ;).

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This is beyond the shadow of a doubt one of the best video game trailers ever made. The game it self is among the best as well. Somehow it didn’t get the attention it deserves. (Embedding YouTube videos stopped working on my blog for some reason, while Google Video still works, I had to hyperlink it)

Grimfandango was the last worthy adventure game from Lucasarts. After which, it was all gone and missed. If you still like to get your hands on it, or any other classic adventure game, GamePlanet New Zealand is having it with international shipping. Each game is worth $15. When they first promoted the classic games for sale, it was $7 only! Now it’s out of stock and rising in price. Can you believe the late 90’s game is now sold for the price of Prince of Persia!

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After the Youtube acquisition by Google, Google Video started returning search results from YouTube along the Google Video results. With the massive community of YouTube, finding Google Videos has become a difficult task using ordinary search. If you are a Google Video fan, or for any reason want to filter out YouTube results, you can do so simply by searching Google Video like this:

your keywords -site:youtube.com

Example: monkey island -site:youtube.com

While searching, I came across this Monkey Island 5 movie, from the WoW world :). It’s not awesome really, but the intro was a bit promising.

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