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Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People 4: Dangeresque 3
Price: $8.95 (PC), 1000 Wii Points
System(s): *PC, WiiWare
Release Date: November, 17, 2008
Publisher (Developer): Telltale Games
ESRB Rating: “Everyone +10” for comic violence
Pros: You get to be a movie star! You can play as Dangeresque, Strong Bad’s action star alter ego. Plus you get to see what horrible actors the characters of Strong Bad are.
Cons: Not enough action. I wanted to blow stuff up but it just didn’t happen.
Overall Score:Two thumbs up; 98/100; A; * * * * 1/2 out of five.

This episode is the best in the series so far. Even if you didn’t like any of the other Strong Bad games, you will like this one…

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Sam and Max: Season One: Sam and Max: Season One
Price: $29.95
System(s): Wii
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Publisher (Developer): Telltale Games (Adventure Company)
ESRB Rating: “Teen” for Cartoon Violence, and Mild Language
Pros: Very funny, entertaining story lines, six games in one.
Cons: No mini-games, very dialog heavy and no tutorial for car chase scenes.
Overall Score: Two thumbs up; 97/100;  A;  * * * * 1/2 out of five.

Telltale’s Sam and Max: Season One for the Wii is finally out and ready to be

vandalized

played. Though originally an episodic adventure game available for download only for the PC (like most of Telltale’s games), this great six-episode set is now out for the Wii, revamped and ready to go…

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Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People: Strongbadia the Free: Telltale Games
Price: $8.95 PC, $10 Wii (WiiWare)
System(s): *PC, Wii
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Publisher (Developer): Telltale Games
ESRB Rating: E+10 “Everyone 10+“ for crude humor and comic mischief.
Pros: Very funny, fun game play, logical puzzles.
Cons: Not enough mini games, insane rating system,  short game play
Overall Score: Two thumbs up; 95/100; A; * * * * 1/2 out of five

It’s time for the second installment of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People: Strongbadia the Free. In this game you play as Strong Bad who was put under house arrest after the King of Town went power crazy an invented several new tax laws that Strong Bad has yet to pay.

Click through for the full review…

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It’s been a long time coming, but Sam & Max are finally going to arrive on the Wii. On October 7, 2008, Telltale’s Sam & Max: Season One will be available in stores for $29.99 - not bad, considering you’re getting six episodes. Fans of the game may have already picked up the PC version of Sam & Max: Season One when it came out in August, 2007, but the Wii version has a few improvements, like widescreen support.

The Wii version of Sam & Max: Season One also has a preorder deal through GameStop. If you place a preorder, you get an extra CD with your game that has…

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Mark Darin, one of the graphic designers for the newStrong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People was available for an interview at the Telltale Games booth at Comic-Con 08, where he was thrilled to talk about the game and share some new information.

“Strong Bad will be a full out adventure game, with extra goodies and side stuff.” Said Darin when asked about the game. Darin indicated that the sense of humor fans enjoyed in Homestar Runner will continue in Strong Bad. Each episode will be supplemented with a rich and realistic storyline (realistic for Homestar, anyway). Expect to have fun with the game as well as laugh, “These episodes will be very much based on the storylines, the humor of it will be an added bonus.” Says Darin.

Darin assured the players that, like the Homestar Runner cartoons…

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If there’s going to be a game based on a dog and a rabbit-type creature who go around busting up crime, there’s no better place for it to go than to the Nintendo Wii. Sam & Max Season 1 will be released Fall 2008 in the United States, Europe, and the United Kingdom.

Sam and Max Season 1 is a port of the popular PC point-and-click series with six episodes making up the entire game. You’ll be able to play the episodes in any order without mixing up the overall story. The hypnosis-themed plot of the game introduces off-the-wall characters with comedy to match.

Telltale Games is also giving out a free PC copy of the first Sam & Max Season 2 episode “Ice Station Santa.“ All you have to do is sign up for the company’s…

Click through for more information and a video of the game!

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Telltale Games, a haven for former Lucasarts talents, has just acquired two more with the hiring of longtime Lucasarts alums Mike Stemmle, Justin Chin and Brett Totsi.

For those following Sam & Max‘s history these past few years, Stemmle’s name should be more than just slightly familiar.  He directed Sam & Max Hit the Road the 1993 adventure game which started most people’s infatuation for the dog and rabbity thing duo, as well as the ill-fated sequel, Sam & Max: Freelance Police, which was…

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