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The newest season of Sam & Max, called The Devil's Playhouse, will address the most frightening question yet: What kind of chaos will ensue if Max receives amazing psychic powers? Fans will have a chance to find out when the new adventure starts with the release of its first episode, The Penal Zone, on April 15th for the PlayStation Network, PC and Mac.

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Even as Telltale Games was revealing the first info on their third season of Sam and Max, they also announced plans to release a collected DVD edition of their last episodic game, Tales of Monkey Island. This time the developer will offer folks a Standard and a Deluxe version of the collection which continued the classic LucasArts adventure series.

The $34.95 standard edition contains all five game episodes on one DVD along with some extras like a highlight reel with commentary from the development team, a production art gallery, trailers for the game, a collection of five "I Wonder What Happens" videos, a preview of Sam and Max Season 3 and more. The $49.95 Deluxe version contains the game and even more extras like a map of Gulf of Melange, a new card from the Voodoo Lady, a commemorative button and more. It also comes in a slipcase designed by Sam and Max creator Steve Purcell. The game collection will have both PC and Mac versions.

It's been two years since Telltale Games' second "season" of Sam and Max game episodes but in about a month the wait will be over. IGN, reporting from GDC, states that the first epsiode of the third season will be available for download on April 15 for both the PC and the Mac. It's the first time that any Telltale episodic series will launch for both PC and Mac platforms at the same time (oh, it's also coming to the Playstation Network too).

There will be five episodes for this season, which apparently has the overall subtitle The Devil's Playhouse. Telltale will let folks pre-order the full season for $34.95 but it looks like they won't be selling individual episodes yet. Anyone who does pre-order will get some special stuff such as a free episode from any of Telltale's previous games, access to a special preview section, a private forum with chats with Telltale's team and Sam and Max creator Steve Purcell and more.

Adventure game developer TellTale Games launches onto the Mac platform with the Tales of Monkey Island series. To mark the occasion, a playable demo for Launch of the Screaming Narwhal, the first episode in the series, is available for download. Now both PC and Mac gamers can both play pirate. Owners of the games on the PC can download the full Mac ports from TellTale for free.

"While explosively stripping the evil pirate LeChuck of his demonic mojo, Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently infects the entire Caribbean with the arch-fiend's expelled voodoo, which threatens to transform buccaneers into unruly pirate monsters. Pursued by a notorious cut-throat Pirate Hunter and a creepy French Physician who believes that Guybrush's eerily-infected hand holds the secret of eternal life, Threepwood sails the seven seas in search of La Esponja Grande, a legendary sea sponge with unparalleled voodoo exfoliating abilities. But little does Guybrush know, his quest is part of a larger, more sinister plot, and good and evil are not always as they seem..."

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There have been hints that Telltale Games was about to get into the Mac games selling business and today that day is here. The developer's official web site has now posted up word that Tales of Monkey Island, their latest episodic game, is now available for purchase and download for $34.95 for Mac users

If you already own the PC version of the game and also own a Mac you can go ahead and download the new Mac version for free. Telltale is also holding an online poll to get the public to voice their opinion on which game from the developer (Sam and Max, Strong Bad or Wallace and Gromit) should be released for the Mac next.

While we wait for Telltale Games to launch the third season of their episodic Sam and Max series, their second season is finally coming to retail stores via publisher Atari. A note on Atari's web site states the retail collection of the five episode season will ship to stores for both the PC and the Wii on March 9.

This is not the first time Telltale's Sam and Max games have been sold in retail stores. The first Sam and Max season was sold in stores via The Adventure Company. Of course, Telltale previously released Season Two in downloadable form and then sold a mail order DVD collection of the season on their web site.

It's one of the worst weekends of the year; the weekend in between the NFC and AFC championship games and the Super Bowl. Sure there's the Pro Bowl but that game is worse to check out than a junior high league football matchup. However we do have one thing that will make the weekend cool; some great game sales including a way to get a PC game for free.

That free game offer comes from Telltale Games who, as we reported earlier today, is offering the first season of Sam and Max for just $4.95 from now until Sunday. Telltale is also giving folks a chance to get one free game episode from any of their many episodic titles if they complete an online survey. The survey should take five to 10 minutes to complete. The free game offer is valid until Telltale gets enough data from the survey so if you want your freebie you need to move quickly.

In other PC game sales news, Steam is offering two game bundles for just $2 each for this weekend. One is for the Freedom Force bundle (with both of Irrational Games' super hero RPG titles). The other is for the X-Com bundle (with all five games in the sci-fi series). In addition Tropico 3 is on sale this weekend for just $13.60. Finally, while not a weekend sale, Steam has added a new bundle to its lineup, the 1C Complete Collection. You can buy 17 games from 1C Company in this bundle and pay just $69.99 for the entire line-up.

Direct2Drive also has a weekend sale, as it takes off $5 from the recent action game Dark Void for this weekend only. The discount is valid if you put in the code 5OFFDARKVOID at checkout. And for the next week they have the first person shooter Red Faction Guerrilla for just $4.95.

Telltale Games has already announced plans to launch its third "season" of episodic Sam and Max games sometime later this year. But for some reason some of you may not be familiar with the funny antics of the crime busting dog and rabbit. Well, from now until Sunday, Telltale Games is making it really easy to get started on your Sam and Max gaming opportunities.

The teaser site for the upcoming Sam and Max game now has a special offer that lets folks buy the entire first Sam and Max season for just $4.95. Yep, from now until midnight Pacific time on January 31 you can buy and download the entire five episode game series for the cost of less than one buck an episode. That's a massive bargain no matter how you cut it.

Mac gamers continue to get the short end of the stick in terms of getting native ports of PC games. However, Mac gamers could be getting a ton of PC titles very soon. According to the Maclife.com site, Telltale Games will announce plans to bring most of their episodic adventure games to the Mac platform at next month's MacWorld Expo.

According to the article, the first games from the Telltale game library will be their successful Tales of Monkey Island with their other episodic series to be released on the Mac later on in the year. Our sister site Joystiq contacted Telltale for comment and was told the story was "totally unconfirmed."

More free games! More free games! Yep, we have yet another limited time deal for you to grab and play a game free of charge. While it's not the same as winning the Megamillions lottery you sometimes have to take what you can get. In this case you can get the fifth episode of Telltale Games' episodic adventure game Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People for free for the next 13 or so hours.

The episode, 8-Bit Is Not Enough, features Trogdor, the well-armed (hehe) dragon that was created seven years ago today at HomestarRunner.com. Today is (natch) Trogday so hence the free game giveaway. In addition, Telltale is selling the entire Strong Bad season today for just $19.95, a 33 percent price cut for from its normal $29.95 price.