I just got the piece of gaming news I’ve gotten so far in my life:
Lucasarts is releasing a special edition of the best adventure game of all time (Monkey Island 2: Lechuck’s Revenge) this summer 
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Monkey Island 2 – Lechuck’s Revenge
Thursday, March 11th, 2010A new Hobby
Sunday, February 21st, 2010I’ve recently started a new hobby, which involves tiny plastic beads 
Everyone used to make stuff with “Hama Perler” when they were kids, but now that I’m grown up, it’s actually way more fun.
I’m currently making all the main characters from Monkey Island 2 (Just Guybrush and Stan so far), but Elaine, Herman Toothrot, Lemon head and the others aren’t far behind.
I’ll be adding pictures of the stuff I make on this picasa album
The Secret of Monkey Island
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
In addition to the brand new game, a remake of the original Secret of Monkey Island with better graphics/audio will be released on Steam in 7 hours from now. I’m really looking forward to this as the graphics in the original is not really great and does not compare well to Monkey Island 2 (which still looks great)
I guess this is the summer of the Monkey, which is AWESOME
Update – June 20th
Now I finally played trough the whole thing, and it was great!
The new graphics/effects/music/speech really made it much more playable than the original version, which really has started to show signs of old age with pretty gloomy and ugly graphics.
The game only cost 9€ on Steam.. I would gladly pay 30€ for a similar remake of Monkey Island 2 which is 5 times better than the first one, but I think I might start playing the second game now anyway, since the graphics there are way better than the original Secret of Monkey Island.
Tales of Monkey Island
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009The latest Monkey Island game called “Tales of Monkey Island” came out about a week ago. The game is divided up into 5 episodes, and one episode will be released monthly by telltale games.
I am a HUGE Monkey Island fan, and have played all the game several times, but I was somewhat skeptical of this new game. I had previously tried the Wallace & Gromit and the Sam’n'Max game from Telltale games and I hated them (both were the demos on steam).. Did not like them.. The controls were awkward and I did not like the game engine at all. The stories also did not seem very good.
Luckily after playing for 10 minutes I was glad to know that the first episode of the game “Launch of the screaming narwhal” was nothing like this.
The gameplay was fun, but maybe a bit to easy (used a little under 4 hours on it) compared to the other games. I like the environment, the atmosphere and the gameplay. It really feels like a Monkey Island game and is definitely worthy of the Monkey Island name
update: May 10th 2011
So, I just finished chapter 5 (last one).. I must say that Telltale did a really good job on all of the chapters and stayed true to the Monkey Island feeling. The story was great right up until the very end. Also I might also have a crush on Morgan LeFlay now
Fedcon 2009
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Tomorrow I’m leaving for Bonn, Germany to attend my first ever Star Trek Convention, the convention is Fedcon, and I have no idea what I’m going to do there
Better have Summer Glau sign a Firefly dvd cover, don’t know why, but life is like playing Monkey Island.. you just do stuff because it’s there, and hope it will pay of later.
Either way it should be fun, maybe I’ll catch a glimpse of this swine flu that the media has been hyping the entire week.. Influenza kills like 1000 people in Norway each year.. 30’000 in the US, and a new influenza virus spreads across the planet every year without people yelling about a pan(dem)ic.
