Since we are all here enjoying the cozy privacy of the Internet, let me tell you a little something. Confidentially, of course… Well, here goes: this review (of sorts) would have appeared at least a week earlier had I not become hopelessly stuck while playing through the final installment of Sam & Max. You [...]

  It always boils down to discussing the Internet, and Sam and Max episode 5, you know, the one cunningly named Reality 2.0, just couldn’t avoid commenting on the whole cyber, MMO, Web 2.0, blog, spyware, online banking phase a modest but substantial part of mankind seems to be currently experiencing. After all, it only [...]

  Sam & Max’s fifth episode has them solve a mystery where a video game holds players hostage. To get to the bottom of it the Freelance Police have to enter the Reality 2.0 and figure out who is behind this before Reality 2.0 crashes. Past the break are more screenshots of the next Sam [...]

Since Telltale Games picked up the Sam & Max license they have been releasing the game in online episodes and through GameTap. If you’re the type of person who likes to buy a complete game or want a retail copy the Adventure Company is releasing Sam & Max: Season 1 for PCs in stores in [...]

Finally, a different setting!  That’s what I thought when starting this episode.  Sam & Max Episode 4: Abe Lincoln Must Die places our animal detective duo on the lawn of the White House.  Apparently, the president, who looks and talks suspiciously like our current president, has been acting a bit weird lately.  How else can [...]

  Point and click adventures, a genre PC gamers felt they could call their own, have been through a pretty tough phase those last 10 years or so. After Sierra collapsed and Lucasarts started milking the Star Wars franchise, adventurers never really enjoyed the same level of quality, polish or production values in their games. [...]

These screenshots are from Sam and Max’s third episode, “The Mole, the Mob and the Meatball”. In this episode Sam and Max go undercover into the Toy Mafia to see what is going on behind the scenes at Ted E. Bear Mafia Free Playland.  

The lovable anthropomorphic gumshoes are back in Sam & Max: Situation Comedy.  In this second episode, talk show host Myra Stump is holding her audience hostage and the detective duo have to get to the bottom of it. The old hangouts like Bosco’s store and Sybil’s office should feel familiar to people who played the [...]

In just a few weeks Sam and Max Episode 2 premieres on GameTap. “Situation: Comedy” starts right after “Culture Shock” finishes. Sam & Max head to a talk show that has become a hostage situation. The new episode comes out on December 21 on GameTap. Until then enjoy these screenshots of their continuing adventure.  

You know how after you get used to driving a stick shift car, then you switch to an automatic transmission, you’re all of a sudden thrown off and confused by the simplicity of it all? That’s what Sam & Max Culture Shock feels like.  In the age of first person shooters, third person RPGs, and [...]

Take me back to a simpler time, when men were men, vegans were confined to San Francisco, and adventure games only required one button.  A time when the word  “LucasArts” conjured up more than an image of an isometric scrolling of expository yellow text over the starry expanse of space (I’ve heard that John Williams [...]