"Remakes are cheap, easy, nostalgic and give younger gamers a chance to play a classic they missed due to being in the womb. After major gaming conglomerates (mostly Capcom) realized how much money they could make more and more have been popping up these days.
Within the next year gamers will see a good number of remakes; check out a handful that we can’t wait to get our grubby little paws on."
LucasArts and Telltale Games have announced that Guybrush Threepwood will return to Monkey Island once more, in two projects announced by the studios. The classic adventure series is revived!
LucasArts will be working on The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, which is to hit PC and the Xbox Live Arcade. It is a remake of the original game, sporting new HD graphics, remastered musical score, and full voice acting. The game's official site can be found here.
Telltale Games will ...
"GamerSquad advise approaching this juicy slice of speculation with some caution, but a couple of clues have led some Internet bloggers to believe that work on Monkey Island 5 could be underway, deep in some subterranean LucasArts laboratory."
