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When  arrives later this year, players will finally discover the secret of Monkey Island. That’s the pitch series creator Ron Gilbert made in the game’s newest trailer, which premiered today during Nintendo’s . “My name is Guybrush Threepwood, and this is a story about the time I finally found the secret of Monkey Island,” voice actor Dominic Armato declares at the start of the clip. As you might imagine, the trailer is full of allusions to past Monkey Island games, including some of the series’ best gags. At one point,…

The first real bit of in-game footage for Return To Monkey Island has been released, alongside the reveal that the game is coming to Nintendo Switch. This new trailer was released today (June 28) during the Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase, with the game now confirmed for both PC and Nintendo Switch release this year. That said, there’s still no concrete launch date for the game apart from a 2022 window. You can check out the in-game footage below, or visit the game’s website right here.…

During the June 2022 Nintendo Partner Direct, which focused on third-party games coming to Nintendo Switch, Devolver Digital showed up with a new look at Return to Monkey Island. We also learned that Return to Monkey Island is a timed Nintendo Switch console exclusive, meaning that when the game launches later in 2022, it'll do so first on Nintendo Switch, as well as on PC. As shared earlier in the year when the game was announced, Return to Monkey Island is a collaboration being developed by Terrible Toybox in…

Photo: Chris Hondros (Getty Images)You remember in Disney’s Moana, when the people of Motunui wax lyrical about the benefits of the coconut, how they use “each part of the coconut, it’s all you need.” It’s a real jaunty tune.Now imagine that same song but it takes place on a Thai coconut plantation, where monkeys are reportedly brutally forced to knock the coconuts from the trees before being kept in cages or tied to posts for hours, and the lyrics about how the land “gives us what we need, and no one leaves,” takes on a…

Source: Short Sleeve Studio Voodoo Detective is a new point-and-click adventure that counts hit classic Monkey Island among its inspiration — and you can play it now on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. A premium game with a premium — for the App Store, at least — price tag of $14.99, the new Short Sleeve Studio release tells the story of Voodoo Detective as he visits a small island town to take on his latest case and it's sure to be his toughest mystery yet. Gamers can look forward to a full voice cast including professionals who…

Python is a dynamic scripting language. Not only does it have a dynamic type system where a variable can be assigned to one type first and changed later, but its object model is also dynamic. This allows us to modify its behavior at run time. A consequence of this is the possibility of monkey patching. This is an idea that we can modify the base layer of a program without modifying the higher-level code. Imagine you can use the print() function to print something to the screen, and we can modify the definition of this…

The human brain is said to be the most complex biological structure ever to have existed. And while science doesn't fully understand the brain yet, researchers in the expanding field of neuroscience have been making progress.  Neuroscientists have made substantial inroads towards mapping the complex functions of the brain's 85 billion or so neurons and the 100 trillion connections between them. (To put this astronomical number into perspective, there are upwards of 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.)Enter…

In a bid to consolidate its growing presence in the area of blockchain gaming, Web3 investment giant Animoca Brands has now completed the full acquisition of Melbourne-based game developer Grease Monkey Games — a studio that has developed a host of popular motorsport titles such as Torque Burnout and Torque Drift. Established in 2013, Grease Monkey Games' current pipeline of upcoming titles includes a major cross-platform racing game built with Unreal Engine 5 and moving forward, the game studio will be working closely…