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If you love classic and new adventure games and also want to contribute something to society, Telltale Games has a deal for you. Today the developer launched The Great Adventure Game Bundle 2010 where you can purchase six game title for just $19.95. The games included in the bundle are The Whispered World, Jack Keane, King's Quest Collection (with three games in the King's Quest series) and Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode 1.

In addition to the cheap price Telltale will give 25 percent of the proceeds from the bundle to five different charities (Child's Play, The World Wildlife Fund, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Nyota e.V., and the Electronic Frontier Foundation). You can pick which charity you want to support when you purchase the bundle. If you don't choose the money will be spread evenly among the five organizations.

Finally if 5,000 bundles are sold, Telltale will throw in access to its own game Puzzle Agent for free and will also provide Sam and Max: Across Time and Space for free after a second, unknown, amount of bundles are sold. There's no word on how long the bundle deal will last

The mysterious new Telltale Games title that was teased over the weekend now has a name. It's Poker Night at The Inventory and it does indeed feature characters from four different game and game-related universes: The Heavy (Team Fortress 2), Tycho (Penny Arcade), Max (Sam and Max), and Strong Bad (Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People).

At the moment there's not a lot of info on what kind of poker or gameplay features the title will have but there's little to complain about in terms of the price. Telltale and Steam are both taking pre-orders for the game for a mere $4.95. You will also get a 25 percent coupon when you pre-order that can be used on most of Telltale's other products. The game itself is due for release later this fall.

This week, leading up to both PAX Prime and the Labor Day weekend, represents a bit of a lull in new PC game releases. However starting next week we should have lots of new titles coming out every week until sometime in late November-early December as the traditional fall/holiday flood of games begins. In the meantime we get two adventure games, both of which were made by former team members from LucasArts.

Sam and Max: The City That Dares Not Sleep: The fifth and final chapter of the third season (also known as The Devil's Playhouse) of adventure games from developer Telltale Games is due to be released via download later today. Will there be lots of wackiness? We sure hope so.

We've seen some minor game crossovers in the past but apparently something is coming from Telltale Games that, well, could be (and we emphasize COULD) one of the biggest game crossover events ever. GameTrailers has posted up a teaser trailer that, as you can see from the screenshot, seems to show the silhouettes of Tycho from Penny Arcade, Max of Sam and Max, Strong Bad from Homestar Runner and the Heavy player character from Team Fortress 2.

So what in the wild, wild world of sports is this teasing us for? Is it for an upcoming game? Is it for a comic strip? Is it for an animation project? We have no idea but from the teaser video it looks like more info is coming on Thursday, September 2. Color us confused, intrigued and excited. You can check out the embedded trailer after the jump:

It's been perhaps the best Sam and Max "season" since developer Telltale Games has revived the classic adventure game series. And now the fifth and final chapter of The Devil's Playhouse is close at hand. Telltale has announced that the finale, The City That Dare Not Sleep, will be released on Monday, August 30.

The final chapter sees Max turned into a monster who is attacking a city. After dealing with a ton of clones of himself, the crime fighting dog Sam dog has to now stop his rabbit partner from, well, causing more havoc than Max normally does. Remember, Telltale has just reduced the price of Season 3 down to just $19.95 which makes it easy to get all five episodes at once.

Fans of the Sam and Max episodic series have been awaiting word on when the final chapter for Season Three, The Devil's Playground, would be released. The blog site for the game's developer Telltale Games states that a release date for the final episode, The City That Dares Not Sleep, will be revealed "soon". You can see a screenshot from the final episode above this news post.

However if you have yet to purchase Season Three yet, now's a good time to do so as Telltale has lowered the price for all five episodes, including the unreleased fifth chapter, to just $19.95 via the developer's online store. In addition you can get Sam and Max: Complete Collection with all three seasons included for just $39.95.

Developer Telltale Games has given Big Download an exclusive demo launch today. For now this is the only place where you can grab the demo for Sam and Max Beyond the Alley of the Dolls. This demo gives players a slice of the recently release fourth episode in the latest "season' of adventure games starring the dog and rabbit duo created by Steve Purcell.

This is not just a demo of the fourth episode. It's also a demo to the next-to-last chapter in this Sam and Max "season" that been under the umbrella name The Devil's Playground. In this episode Sam and Max find themselves barricaded in a ramshackle diner as they try to avoid an army of zombie-like canine clones. However there might be something else going on as well.

If you want to purchase the entire season of The Devil's Playground, you can do so with a 10 percent discount. Simply enter the code BIGD-NJX8-7SG6-LW5F at checkout at the Telltale web site.

Download the Sam and Max Beyond the Alley of the Dolls demo at Big Download

The San Diego Comic-Con may be over but a previously unknown Comic-Con related sale over at Telltale Games is still going on as we speak. The downloadable game maker has put several of its recent and older titles on the price chopping block but because we didn't know about it until just now you may only have a few more hours to take atvantage of it.

The current season of Sam and Max: The Devil's Playhouse is on sale for $24.95 and the one shot game Puzzle Agent is on sale for $8.96. Sam and Max Season One and Two are on sale for just $9.95 each and the entire season of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is available at the rock bottom price of $4.95. In addition a number of Telltale merchanice are also on sale.

It's the middle of the month and that usually means there's a new Sam and Max game episode to check out. Fortunately, developer Telltale Games doesn't disappoint as the fourth episode of the current season of the adventure game series is now available to download.

The fourth episode of The Devil's Playground season is titled Beyond the Alley of the Dolls. It's a bit of a different tale as our loyal dog and rabbit members of the freelance police find themselves barricaded in a ramshackle diner as they try to avoid an army of zombie-like canine clones. But is there something else going on behind the scenes? With just one episode remaining in the season, expect things to come to a head here.

While developer Telltale Games may be doing big time licensed games like Back to the Future and Jurassic Park in the near future they are still working on their tried and true titles. This week the developer announced that the third episode in the current "season" of Sam and Max: The Devil's Playground will be released on June 22.

This chapter is titled "They Stole Max's Brain!" and yes, Max's brain does indeed go missing so its up to Sam to find it. As you can see Sam is determined to find Max's brain, even if he has to shoot anyone and everyone to do it.