- Some Telltale games pulled from sale as company continues shutdown - 15 November 2018
Telltale’s The Walking Dead , Monkey Island , Jurassic Park , and Back To The Future games have have been pulled from sale on Steam, though folks who already own any can keep playing them and other stores do still sell ’em – for now. This comes as the company goes through the final motions of legally shutting down, settling assets, and all that after laying off most employees in September and those remaining in October. (more…)
- Nintendo Switch Fan Takes Console Skydiving in this Bananas Video - 23 May 2017
The Nintendo Switch is obviously a gaming device and that is its main purpose, but that doesn't stop people from doing some creative experiments . The latest creative endeavor is a short film from Russia that involves a Switch, a banana and, among other things, skydiving. The video, created by Valera Boluchevsky and Richard Chirkin is straight out of a drug-induced hallucination, with the Switch being offered as an upgrade to an old SNES. From there, you get a variety of short adventures, from playing on an apartment roof, to playing while riding on a bike and a train. They then jump out of a plane, which is apprently the first time a Switch has been taken skydiving. The good news is that they apparently remembered to pull the ripcord. And, all the while, the banana and a mysterious helmet-wearing man in yellow follows them around. A plunge into the water sans Switch breaks the supposed…
- Daily Deal - Back to the Future: The Game, 75% Off - 21 October 2015
Today's Deal: Save 75% on Back to the Future: The Game !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time
- The Walking Dead and other Telltale adventures fall victim to the Humble Weekly Sale - 31 May 2013
The shambling Humble menace has claimed fresh victims. Not content with sucking the price out of assorted indie games for the excellently varied Humble Indie Bundle 8, they've also ambushed Telltale - creators of the brilliant The Walking Dead adaptation - in order to feed their Weekly Sale. Can they ever be stopped? Remember to aim for the wallet. In addition to The Walking Dead - which is available to those who beat the average price - you can pay whatever you want to get: Back to the Future: The Game Sam & Max: Devil's Playhouse Poker Night at the Inventory Hector: Badge of Carnage Puzzle Agent 1 & 2 Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventure Which, combined, is a seriously large selection of adventure, both episodic and otherwise. Not all are great, admittedly, but there is fun to be had, even outside of the developer's masterful zombie tale. The Humble Weekly Sale will run for the next six…
- Indie Royale’s Lunar Bundle contains Back to the Future, Cargo Commander - 29 April 2013
That's no moon. No, really, some of the games in the Indie Royale Lunar Bundle take place in space, but none of them appear to be set on - or are even about - the Moon. Still, nonsensical titles can be forgiven when the upshot is a four pack of pay-what-you-want indie games, including Back to the Future and the enjoyably tense zero gravity platformer Cargo Commander. Here's a rundown of the bundle's lunacy: Pid: A 2D puzzle-platformer in which you use gravity beams to explore a "peculiar planet". That's planet. Not moon. Review here. Cargo Commander: A space-based roguelike-like about exploring randomly generated giant crates for weird loot. Still no moon. Review here. Back to the Future: Telltale's five-part adventure update of the Back to the Future series. It's possible you can see the Moon during night scenes. Review here. Dungeon Hearts: A fantasy match-three strategy game. Almost…
- Telltale talks about its future beyond The Walking Dead - 4 January 2013
What other stories should Telltale turn into games? The adventure veterans at Telltale Games are keeping themselves busy fashioning the second season of The Walking Dead (which earned our Best Writing of 2012 award), but they're making it clear that they want to develop a narrative-driven game for another major franchise. Telltale co-founder Dan Connors told Red Bull UK he'd like the studio to work on something larger in scale, citing Half-Life and Star Wars as examples. "Coming from LucasArts, we always felt we could do a great Star Wars story game,” he said. “We also love the idea of building out a deeper story to a great game franchise—something like Half-Life stories or Halo stories." Telltale Senior Vice President of Publishing Steve Allison later elaborated to VentureBeat that the examples Connors used didn't confirm any intention to contribute to those franchises. "Will we do thi…
- Grand Theft Auto 4 mod requires 1.21 gigawatts for fully functional Back to the Future DeLorean - 29 August 2012
Just when it seems the mod scene for Grand Theft Auto 4 lets off the gas from implausibly gorgeous visual upgrades and gravity-mocking hijinks, it surges back with an amazingly dedicated homage to Back to the Future's time-traveling DeLorean. Crafted by YouTuber "seedyrom34," the mod mixes a custom cocktail ("There is no single download link," seedy states) of heavily altered files, sounds, and tweaks cobbled together to form the onslaught of awesome in the video below. Sure, other DeLorean mods existed long before this one, but seedy's extra dose of functionality and polish -- particularly with the spot-on fire trails and inventive randomization of street traffic and time-of-day after hitting that 88mph sweet spot -- definitely presents an exciting future for Grand Theft Auto 4 and 5's skilled mod community.
- Steam Potato Sack sale strikes back, 13 indie games half-price again - 13 June 2012
Come with me, back into the distant past. Don't mind that wibbly blurry effect and that "WooOOoOOooOO" noise, that's just what happens when you go back in time. We're almost there. All you have to do is click this link and make the transition to April 4 2011! I've always wanted to say that. If you just took the trip, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. You'll also have a good idea as to whether or not you'd like to purchase the games going in the return of the potato sack sale on Steam.
- Midweek Madness - Back to the Future: The Game 60% off! - 25 October 2011
Back to the Future: The Game is available at 60% off now through Thursday at 4pm Pacific Time. Includes all 5 episodes of Back to the Future: The Game Episode 1: It's About Time Episode 2: Get Tannen! Episode 3: Citizen Brown Episode 4: Double Visions Episode 5: OUTATIME - Finale!
- Telltale becomes Wii publisher, bringing Back to the Future to retail - 24 August 2011
Telltale has also announced an agreement with Sony. This'll see Telltale publish retail PlayStation 3 versions of its PlayStation Network games, also starting with BTTF, also at $20. Adventure game aficionado Telltale Games will be bringing its Back to the Future: The Game to Wii this October as a $20 retail release, after signing up as an official Nintendo publisher. Being on a disc should let Telltale avoid the problems that troubled its previous WiiWare releases. "The voices and textures are the way they are because we're limited to 40 megs for WiiWare titles," one Telltale member said of Tales of Monkey Island Episode 1 . "The PC versions of our games are usually 150+ megs, and most modern games range anywhere from 1-10 gigabytes or more. Talk to Nintendo about this one." Being a retail disc, Back to the Future on Wii should hopefully look and sound a lot better. It was originally r…
- Back to the Future review - 15 August 2011
There are moments in Telltale’s latest episodic adventure series that will remind you exactly why you love Back to the Future. And you do. By law, you do. The little twinkling sound as the story starts. The sheer joy of seeing Marty and Doc reunited for one last adventure. The moment the DeLorean hits 88mph. Nostalgic hits like that fondle the old geek glands like nothing else, and just for a split second, a game that offers them can do no wrong. Unfortunately, Back to the Future is five episodes long, and those warm fuzzies are a distant memory by the end of the first. For the rest of the game, you have to make do with Telltale at their least inspired, clearly focused more on hammering their latest licence around their standard adventure game template, rather than working out how best to turn Back to the Future into a game. There are no cool time-travel brain twisters like the ones bac…
- Daily Filter: June 28, 2011 - 28 June 2011
Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis. Today's Filter includes dev diaries for Assassin's Creed Revelations and Driver: San Francisco along with new videos for Ace Combat: Assault Horizon , FIFA Soccer 12 , Back to the Future , and Orcs Must Die . Assassin's Creed Revelations Orcs Must Die Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Driver: San Francisco FIFA Soccer 12 Back to the Future
- New Release - Back to the Future: Final Episode - 23 June 2011
Episode 5: "OUTATIME" for Back to the Future: The Game is now available. The season finale features a very special guest star, Michael J. Fox! Six months after the events of the third film, the DeLorean Time Machine mysteriously returns to Hill Valley - driverless! Marty must go back in time and get aid from a resistant teenage Emmett Brown, or else the space time continuum will forever be unraveled!
- Michael J. Fox to cameo in final Back to the Future episode - 3 June 2011
Telltale's episodic Back to the Future games have been wonderful offerings of fan service. AJ LoCascio's portrayal of Marty McFly, in particular, helps cement the experience as an authentic continuation of the classic films. But, Telltale has one more secret to share: Michael J. Fox will be making an appearance in the final episode of the series, OUTATIME. The developer isn't revealing exactly what character Fox will play, but apparently Marty has met this character in the original film series. Can you figure it out from the screen above? The final episode will be available on PC and Mac on June 23. iPad and PS3 releases will follow shortly.
- Back to the Future episode 4 due next week - 21 April 2011
Telltale Games revealed today that the fourth episode Back to the Future: The Game will come next week. "Double Visions" is the last episode before the finale, "OUTATIME."
- Back to the Future: Episode 1 is now free - 4 April 2011
The first episode of Telltale's series of Back to the Future adventure games is now free to all. You can download it from the Back to the Future site. You'll need to sign up for a free Telltale account first, but once that's done, the game is yours. Episode 1 is called "It's about time," and has Marty travelling back in time in the trusty Delorean to save Doc from trouble. Episode 3 of the 5 part series came out last week.
- Download Back to the Future: The Game Episode 1 for free - 1 April 2011
Telltale Games is using the power of love on PC gamers, offering the first installment of its latest adventure series, Back to the Future: The Game, completely free! Sure, this isn't our favorite of Telltale's episodic adventures, but you'd be an April fool to turn down a free game. Read on for a download link—it is your density. I mean, your destiny. It's no prank—Telltale has a history of generously giving away game episodes in the past: Episode 1 of the Tales of Monkey Island series was free on Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19th, for all you landlubbers), and the fourth episode of Sam & Max season one, Abe Lincoln Must Die!, is free to all indefinitely. Now why don't you make like a tree, and download Back to the Future: The Game Episode 1 - It's About Time now.
- New Release - Back to the Future: The Game - 23 December 2010
Episode 1: It's About Time of Back to the Future: The Game is now available on Steam at 10% off. Marty McFly and Doc Brown return in a completely new Back to the Future adventure. Six months after the events of the third film, the DeLorean Time Machine mysteriously returns to Hill Valley - driverless! Marty must go back in time and get aid from a resistant teenage Emmett Brown, or else the space time continuum will forever be unraveled!
