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iPad gaming update for January 29, 2012
The iPad gaming update is Gamertell’s weekly look at the previous week’s iPad games released in the Apple App Store. We cover them all – good and not so good. The list is available every Monday, right as you are about to start that long work week. Jurassic Park: The Game 3 HD continues the more »
Telltale gives its fans iOS sales for Thanksgiving 2011
Attention iTunes shoppers, there’s another big app sale you need to know about! It’s from the current king of adventure games, Telltale Games. The company’s heart has grown three sizes this Thanksgiving and that’s a very good thing. It’s getting into the spirit of giving by sharing some great Thanksgiving weekend deals for your iOS devices! Between now and November 30 2011, you can get episodes from some of the most popular series for a discounted price.
The sale primarily applies to Telltale’s ample library of iPad games, so let’s start there…
Telltale puts some of its best iOS games on sale
We’ll kick off today’s holiday sales with a handful of discounts from Telltale Games. No, Back to the Future: The Game isn’t on sale. This sale is for iOS devices only. From now until January 3, 2011 four Telltale games (two for iPhone, iPod Touch and two for iPad) are on sale for $0.99.
Telltale’s crossover game is about poker
Earlier this week, Telltale Games teased us with a video starring four characters from different games. Tycho from Penny Arcade Adventures, Max from Sam and Max, The Heavy from Team Fortress 2 and Strong Bad from Homestar Runner would somehow find a way to gather in the same place. There will be no team deathmatches or mysteries to solve this time. All these characters want to do is play poker.
Gamertell Review: Sam and Max: The City That Dares Not Sleep
The clones are gone, but now Max is a horrible monster who is devouring the entire city and causing great panic to the state of New York. Sure this doesn’t sound any different then Max’s normal everyday functions but this time he is under the control of something else.
The only option the city seems to have is to destroy the monster but Sam can not let his best buddy be destroyed so it up to him to save Max the only way possible: By forcing Max to eat him.
Gamertell Review: Sam and Max: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls
The world is finally (hopefully) safe from the evil space ape Skunkape, but now thousands of half naked Sam clones (doppelgangers) are terrorizing the city and they won’t stop until they have found all the ancient toys of power. What a night!
The real Sam and his buddy Max must find a way to stop the clones and rid the world of the evil Devil’s toy box once and for all!
Telltale planning the ultimate crossover
Gamertell Review: Sam and Max Episode 3: They Stole Max’s Brain
Someone stole Max’s brain and Sam is furious and vengeful. He won’t stop until he finds the culprit who stole his best buddy’s cranium.
As Sam, you have to interrogate perps (with the help of his old buddy Detective Flint Paper), and eventually use what you got to get back your buddy’s brain. You also get to play around with some of those ancient toys, too.
Gamertell Review: Sam & Max: The Devil’s Toy Box Episode 2 – The Tomb of Sammun-Mak
What do a toy box, an ancient mummy and a bunch of mole-people have in common? Why the second episode of Sam and Max, of course.
In this episode, you don’t control Sam or Max but, instead, their great grandfathers Sammak and Maximus. The game starts with the boys finding two skeletons that look like them and a few film reels. The reels show their grandfathers going through a series of events on a train and in a pyramid, all to find the Devils toy box. You spend the rest of the game traveling back and forth between the reels to get the whole story of why Sam and Max’s grandfathers are now skeletons.
Gamertell Review: Sam and Max season 3: The Penal Zone for PC
Oh no! A giant space ape is trying to take over the world, and Sam and Max are the only hope for humanity. Oh crud!
Telltale’sSam and Max: The Devil’s Playhouse is the third season for the dynamic duo. This season will be similar to Telltale’s Tales of Monkey Island where all five episode will be part of the same big story. Each episode will continue after the previous one, which is different then the stand alone episodes you are use to with the series, giving you a five episode long story.
In the first episode The Penal Zone, you are treated to a couple cut scenes (which is also unique to this season) that show a huge alien ape destroying airplanes and buildings from his space ship. Our hero’s are locked in a hamster looking cage and of course you need to get them out. Also, Max inexplicably has telekinetic powers, and Sam has a device that sends people to the “Penal Zone” which is not explained yet either. There is also a narrator that resembles a caricatured Rod Sterling from the Twilight Zone. He also gives you a tutorial on how to use Max’s new powers and how to play the rest of the game.
