{"id":124523,"date":"2022-04-05T08:28:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T06:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124523"},"modified":"2022-04-06T08:28:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T06:28:45","slug":"new-monkey-island-game-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/124523-new-monkey-island-game-announced","title":{"rendered":"New Monkey Island game announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Return to Monkey Island will be the latest Monkey Island title, following the previous games Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck&#8217;s Revenge.<\/p>\n<p>The project was announced by the original series creator Ron Gilbert on 1 April in a <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpygamer.com\/april_fools_2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> and was later confirmed by Devolver Digital and Lucasfilm Games to be more than just an April Fools joke.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grumpygamer\/status\/1510995575025528836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to Gilbert<\/a>, the game has been in development for the past two years at the development studio Terrible Toybox.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sahskKAxSCY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dominic Armato is returning as the protagonist Guybrush Threepwood&#8217;s original voice actor, and the series&#8217; co-creator Dave Grossman will help Gilbert lead the project.<\/p>\n<p>The game is set to have an excellent art direction since Lex Crowle, who helped design games like Tearaway and LittleBigPlanet, is the art director.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Land, Peter McConnel, and Clint Bajakian are also returning to compose Return to Monkey Island&#8217;s score.<\/p>\n<p>If you are curious about what you can possibly expect from the new Monkey Island game, Ron Gilbert&#8217;s 2013 blog post titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/grumpygamer.com\/if_i_made_another_monkeyisland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">If I Made Another Monkey Island<\/a>&#8221; could hold some clues.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Introducing Return to Monkey Island, a new game by Ron Gilbert that picks up where Monkey Island 2: LeChuck&#8217;s Revenge left off.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5E3zi5JkEt\">https:\/\/t.co\/5E3zi5JkEt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/frkrN1OLXD\">pic.twitter.com\/frkrN1OLXD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Devolver Digital (@devolverdigital) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/devolverdigital\/status\/1510995585138147333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124501-doom-mod-lets-you-play-with-ray-tracing\">Doom mod lets you play with ray tracing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devolver Digital is teaming up with Lucasfilm Games and Terrible Toybox to bring you a new Monkey Island game in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":124526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[25969,1471,25967,1131,25971,1129,25970,25968],"class_list":["post-124523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-dave-grossman","tag-devolver-digital","tag-lucasfilm-games","tag-monkey-island","tag-monkey-island-2-lechucks-revenge","tag-ron-gilbert","tag-secret-of-monkey-island","tag-terrible-toybox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}