Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's an alternate, game-driven reality where the most famous pop-culture pirate of the 21st century isn't Jack Sparrow but is ...

Everyone who enjoys playing video games has at least one series that they'd call a favorite; a series they almost never miss; games they reliably go back to every now and then; something they use as a ...

The Monkey Island series holds a special place in my heart. I fondly remember exploring Mêlée Island as a child, not quite sure what I was doing, but enthralled with the witty point-and-click ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally for the best part of a decade. Although he ...

For whatever critiques you could level at the Monkey Island franchise, you have to admire its utter refusal to die. Today’s release of Return to Monkey Island marks 13 years since the last game, ...

There's pressure on any sequel that builds on a beloved game to live up to the standards set by its predecessor, but when that original game is more than three decades old, the pressure reaches a ...

Return to Monkey Island is a point-and-click adventure game that sees the return of Guybrush Threepwood. Developed by Terrible Toybox and published by Devolver Digital, it launched on September 19, ...

The point-and-click adventure game genre hasn’t always been well-received by a modern gaming audience, but it has certainly made some strides in recent years. And when you have Guybrush Threepwood ...

A palpable fondness for the first two Monkey Island games emanates throughout every three-headed monkey gag and bout of insult swordfighting in Return to Monkey Island. It’s the kind of love that ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally for the best part of a decade. Although he ...

It would have been easy for Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman to simply trot out any old nostalgia-bait threequel to the legendary Monkey Island games and sit back to reap the benefits, which is what ...

A gaming journalism veteran of ten-plus years and four-time IGF judge, largely attracted to indie games, new IPs, and in general, what could very well be the gaming world's next surprise hit. Divorced ...