Do you remember all your swordfighting insults? You might need them

Great news out of Telltale Games today, who’ve announced that the second episode of Tales of Monkey Island, “The Siege of Spinner Cay”, will be available for download on the 20th of August.

Apparently the decision was reached after completing work on the Wallace and Gromit series, and several letters with “disarming emoticons and well-intentioned threats” (oh, they got my letter!).

If you haven’t had a chance to avail yourself of the new series, you should really check out the website.  Until then, for everyone like me who bought the series, it’s just a matter of waiting out the thirteen days.

You can also check out our review of the first episode, “Launch Of The Screaming Narwhal”, just in case you missed it!

Details on the next episode are a hard to find, but Telltale have also posted up a brilliant little flash movie made by one of their fans, Majus, with a few ideas of just what might happen.  I had a hearty chuckle, and it’s a nice piece of animation, so I suggest taking a look.

If anyone is still in doubt that adventure game producers read my site and hang on my every word (and they do, we all know it), Steam has announced that Activision (who now own all of Sierra’s old IPs) is bringing out both King’s Quest and Space Quest game packs.

This is great news for US gamers.

And I don’t mean US as in “all of us” I mean US as in United States.  Imagine my surprise when I went to take a look at the details and found this message:

An error was encountered while processing your request:

This item is currently unavailable in your region.

So apparently, when they say that Activision has added these games to it’s online catalogue, they forgot to add “and only in America, fuck everyone else”.  So you know, if you’re Australian or European, just ignore this post completely.

And if you’re a lucky American who loves old school adventure, check out Steam!