In Episode 1: Culture Shock, dog and rabbity-thing crime fighters Sam & Max must round up a gaggle of unruly child stars who are wreaking havoc in the neighborhood. The new Nintendo Switch demo includes almost the entire episode, and save files carry over to the full game. This first case plants the seeds for a six-episode story arc that will put the Freelance Police on national TV, get them inducted into the Toy Mafia, trigger an emergency presidential election against the reanimated Lincoln Monument, bring down the internet (oh, the horror!), and culminate in a blissful showdown on the moon. Yes, it s exactly as weird as it sounds.
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After the 2017 release on Steam and the distribution on consoles from 2018, the debut title of CINIC Games,
The Wardrobe, arrives on Xbox One and on the latest generation consoles of Microsoft, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S from May 5th 2021.
The protagonist of
The Wardrobe, a 2D point and click adventure inspired by pillars of the genre such as Monkey Island , Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max: Hit the Road , is Skinny, a boy who was killed by mistake from his best friend, Ronald. After the accident, Skinny s body was brought back to life by some mysterious forces, forced to live forever in Ronald s wardrobe. Like a skeleton in the closet. To save his best friend s soul from eternal damnation, Skinny will be forced to reveal himself to Ronald and convince him to face his guilt.
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Trilby Beresford
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British studio Variable State opens up about its chapter-based, dialogue-driven game that features overlapping stories with a supernatural twist.
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British game studio Variable State teased its upcoming chapter-based narrative adventure
Last Stop during a press demo, describing the game as a dialogue-heavy anthology story, with points of reference, at least in terms of structure, being films like
Magnolia or
Heat Vision
breakdown The game features three playable characters and three converging stories that vary happen concurrently but vary in tone. Its set in a fictional borough of London, which developer and company co-founder Jonathan Burroughs said is an amalgam of lots of little out of the way parts not the tourist trap sights and sounds like the Houses of
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Great gouts of steaming magma on a beeline for the orphanage! Sam & Max Save the World is getting a physical release! Skunkape Games, a studio founded by former Telltale developers to remaster the episodic Sam & Max games, have teamed up with Limited Run Games for three forthcoming physical products:
Nintendo Switch Standard Edition ($34.99) Sam & Max Save the World game cartridge in snap case
Nintendo Switch Collector s Edition ($74.99) big box with goodies plus Sam & Max Save the World game cartridge in snap case