Rock Band & Monkey Island!
Rock Band Party - June 20th
For those who read the blog, we are having a Rock Band party the 20th of this month. Like the last 2, it will be held at my co-worker Sara's house.
We will have a costume contest again. The costume can impersonate a famous musician or you can make your own unique costume. I will be sending out the official Socializr invite sometime in the next week or so when we have the details figured out.
For those of you in the Portland area that didn't get an invite the last 2 parties, just let me know at ophidiann At gmail d0t com. :)
Monkey Island
Two awesome announcements regarding Monkey Island have been made! First, they are bringing the first Monkey Island game to the PC and 360 back with updated graphics.
http://www.lucasarts.com/games/monkeyisland/
Then, Telltale games (who have been doing the Sam & Max games, the new Wallace and Gromit games, and StrongBad adventure games) are doing a new series of Monkey Island games!
http://www.telltalegames.com/monkeyisland
I've always loved the Monkey Island series and I believe Telltale has done a good job with the Sam & Max games (which I have). There are so few companies that do good adventure games nowadays... that it's always fun to see the old Lucasart adventure games comeback. Now they need to start a new set of Space Quest games!
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I never played Monkey Island, but really liked Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and Dig. They should make sequels for these games too, in addition to Monkey Island. The production cost has to be almost nothing to do it, since the graphics are so simplistic by today's standards.
Rock band
Nat and I can't commit to the Rock Band party, because we don't know how busy we will be that week (that will be a crazy week!).