Make a limited edition version with an authentic 'hand signed!' Ron Gilbert autograph included. Come on Ron... do it.

I'll be waiting for the [REDACTED] version!

Samer here. :D  Day one purchase for me so that I can gloat, brag, and showoff while in show and tell! O.O

Day -1 pirate here. I'll be waiting for the [RELOADED] version.

<3 RELOADED

We love you, Ron, whatever you'll work on, you got our support! Can't wait for "Deathspank"!

Soooo... now that you've left, will you be able to effing tell us if it's going to be released for PC?.

Way to ignore your readers, Ron!

Read what Ron said again, but this time with TONS of optimism and a little bit of guesswork. :)

Mmm... I will trust you on this one Chris guy
Your optimism will be on my mind when the times comes.... for better or worse ��

Dude!  You have to be the [REDEACTEDIST] person I know.

Thanks for all the hard work, Ron!  I can't wait to play it... as soon as I buy a PS3.  :)

You gonna make me buy a Console for the second time! (first one was an Atari, I didn't understood superman game ver well)
anyway hope the games comes out just as you wanted and that is does well!

Just buy the [REDACTED] version and you won't need to buy a console. :)

err.. you guys do realize that redacted in this context actually means that it was once on the table but now has been withdrawn?  so yes, he was talking about the pc version.. which they are no longer developing. sad but true.

Jaaja, me parece que necesitabas cualquier excusita para la xbox :P
A m� me va a obligar a usar el twitter pff

Espero que no haga falta una consola para jugar a este juego =), desde mi punto de vista, perderia muchisimo su encanto.

Ser�a un horror.
Como mirar el Mundial siendo de Serbia & Montenegro o algo as� :P

Exactamente, ademas, si es cierto que una gran porcion de la trama esta ligada a la saga Diablo o a los A-RPG en general... digamos que los Action RPG nunca fueron muy bien acogidos en consolas de sobremesa.

Pero bueno, que se yo!, ultimamente la industria esta dando tantas vueltas de tuerca que nunca se sabe...

Does this mean you're leaving Vancouver? :(

Does this mean you've been hired by Telltale Games to form an unholy alliance of awesomeness?

It was the olympics wasn't it? "F' this... I'm leaving Hothead. Back to the states for me!"

I can only assume you left Hothead so that you can finally start work on Monkey Island 3a: The Secret Revealed or Your Money Back.  Wait, was that supposed to be redacted?

I briefly read that as "Or your Monkey Back", which works too.

Whoa, leaving already? Best of luck to you wherever you choose to go to next! :-)

Ron "integrity" Gilbert. Good man!!

I hope you are joining Telltale Games!

Thanks, Ron :)

Us Diamond Ultra-Level Grumpy Gamers are disappointed that we weren't notified first. But perhaps I'm thinking metric or something...

metric is the way to go

Best of luck in your future endeavors, Ron. Deathspank looks great; very excited to play it!

But I hope you don't mind me saying: Although I've always enjoyed your blog posts, I wouldn't mind less of them if it meant you were making more games. I hope this doesn't mean we'll have to wait x > 3 more years for your next one.

Monkey Island meets Diablo meets Duke Nuke'em Forever -- wonder if this game will come out prior to the 2012 end of the world.  Even assuming the console version comes out this year... I'm guessing another year for a PC release?  I'm a big fan of yours but color me disappointed at the industry or whatever factors are causing this to putter along at a sloth like pace.

I'm gonna have to agree with Hooray for Sodomy (never thought I'd type that) but when will we see MI3, the real version? Fingers crossed.

I've noted the release date of [REDACTED] in my agenda, so I won't miss it :P

left jumped or left pushed from a penthouse window by armed goons?

Lookie here, Telltale has an open position for Senior Game Designer. Go for it!

Sad to hear. Well, if you start any other studio on your own, I hope you announce it with enough time for me to be able to apply as an artist! I missed the chance in Hothead. What could be better than working with your childhood hero? (not Mr. Bush really)

Wherever you go next, best of luck to ya.
Oh, yeah, and it's probably the [REDACTED] one for me too, I guess.

Come on, Mr. Gilbert spill the beans. You are making a new Monkey Island Game, aren't you? You can tell us! We're your freinds! Really! Honest! No kidding! :-)

If it's not beeing release for the GameBoy, I won't be buying it!

Naaah, I can't wait ;-)

damn it, is the PC version canceled or will be released after console ones? This totally sucks hairy balls, If it happens I'll gladly not buy the game at all as I did with Assassin's Creed 2.
And this one was my most waited game of the year, damn it.
I have an xbox 360 but no fucking way I'm going to play a roguelike (Diablo-like?) on a console

As we're getting closer to the release of DeathSpank, I think Mr Gilbert just entered the "monkey" time.

good luck to you Ron, im definitely looking forward to DeathSpank and i really wish you the best on your next move (hopefully it will be at telltale's, they definitely a fun and talented person like you)

It's curling, isn't it? You're going to 'graduate' from game design and development to your one true passion: curling. Godspeed, Ron.

Some of these other guys got my hopes (for a true MI3) up again. Damn.

Hope the future brings more surprises from you :)

Bet that Mission Accomplished text is the end screen for level 1 for that great game that is Deathspank.

Good luck for everything Ron!!!!

And please, give us some freash info about your future decision asap!!!

Mmmm... that means ...No DeathSpank 2 !?!?!?!!?
But maybe a Monkey 3......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm from Greece.

What does REDACTED mean?

Is it always written in capital letters?

Will someone be so kind as to  shed light on my questions?

"Redacted" means the text was censored due to secrecy concerns.

is there a pc version

Sounds like the timing is perfect for you to start working with LEC straight away, then you'll be able to publish "Proper Monkey Island 3: VGA Edition" after they've released "LeChuck's Revenge 3$ Graphics Edition".

Then you'll be filthy stinking rich and you'll run for president, pretty straightforward.

Ps. If I'm right, I estimate that we'll get a "Proper Monkey Island 3: 3$ Graphics Edition" by 2029 :)

Something just crossed my mind.... Wasn't DeathSpank supposed to be a trilogy? What happened to that?

Obviously the Secret of DeathSpank will be introduced in this game and never revealed because Ron left before he could reveal it.

Ron merged the three parts into this DeathSpank version. Episodic is too dangerous for publishers, like, say EA.

All hail EA!

What a heck is a [REDACTED] version???

I want to have a [REDACTED] version of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. I want to be a [REDACTED] college student. I have a [REDACTED] dog called... [REDACTED]. And I can go on and on...

You should be punished for that name to your dog!

Oh, yeah? Well, let me tell you, my friend, my hamster's name is Choclito. Get it? Choclito L�pez Ca�onero. And he loves it!!  X-D

Good luck for anything Ron. ANYTHING. GOOD LUCK. Yes.

I will pirate DeathSpank unless Ron makes an authograph signed version. Then I'll feel forced to buy the game. And after that a dozen more. I'm sure these will revalue over time. :)
Go Ron!

pc version at day one = instabuy
no pc version at day one = epic fail & we will pirate it when it's out

I don't know what's sadder, your threat or your attitude. What happened to politeness and courtest? (And yes, I'm aware of the irony of this post.)

What's the point on pirating it just because it is released later? Some kind of vengeance? Yeah, that would do a lot of good to the future of PC gaming, everyone would be striving to publish their games in PC asap.

Oh shit, I didn't realize DS was going to be published by EA.  Shame, I was really looking forward to playing it.  Looks like Mr. Gilbert is just gonna have to settle for a personal check and an angry letter begging for MI3

What's so bad about EA? They're just a distribution partner, anyways.

is it going to be protected by the "by online 24/7 or you cant play the game" BS? that new... lets call it protection system, sucks bad, please dont do that

My username might give you a hint.  I started a one-man boycott on EA sixteen years ago when they used their practice of buying a good studio and running their license into the ground for a quick buck on three of my favorite studios.  Magic Carpet, Ultima, Privateer, and to a lesser extent the Command and Conquer series for example.

and this boycott achieves what, exactly? Generally, the point in a boycott is to pressure a company into changing for the better. So what is EA doing today that warrants your boycott?

All I know is that they're publishing a game you want, they're no longer running studios into the account (unlike, say, Activision), and they've even loosened up on DRM.

Of course they're not perfect, but it seems absurd to never ever buy anything from them because of something that happened 16 years ago.

Or to put it simply: they're willing to publish Deathspank. Why should they be punished for that?

Wow what a lame reason for a boycott Thrakhath when you knew nothing of the actual business at the time.

Origin were on the verge of bankruptcy they were pleading with companies to buy them but everyone knew they were a terribly managed company & wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. Despite publicly dissing EA before the sale, they still saved Origin from closure and Origin took EA's money. You would have not gotten any more Origin games like your treasured Privateer had EA not saved them.

Bullfrog sold themselves to EA, Bullfrog didn't fall apart as a unit Peter Molyneux was the liaison between EA management and Bullfrog team, when Peter got bored and left no-one filled his shoes. The Bullfrog team weren't able to pitch the games as good as Peter did and they eventually went their separate ways some are still at EA.

Westwood was the same Bullfrog, when the talent got bored or decided to move on elsewhere the studio was no longer effective as it once was, Westwood were the foundation for what is EA LA today.

It really is astonishing to see someone who has wasted 16 years on a pointless boycott. Did you boycott all the developers too who took EA's cash then setup a new studio after leaving EA ?

Even myself being a fan of MI1&2 over what LEC did later, very few people who have known the saga since 1997 would accept a MI3 wiping the storyline, having played the later ones.

MI3, and what Monkey Island and its secret should have been, should be elegantly done an animation movie spanning the whole trilogy plot IMO (not that the two first ones have a lot of plot between puzzles really).

Job well done, I hope, and looking forward to playing it. Good luck in any future endeavours. :)

>George W. Bush: Mission Accomplished.
>working closely with EA

Why do these words leave me with a feeling of dread?

Because they are minions of Hades.

those are big issues in our world today - blogging often and remembering passwords... really, it was on cnn a few nights ago...

Hey Ron, I think you went on a date with my sister. She says she didn't find the Pirate jokes funny :(

That's not true! That's IMPPP--OSSSIBLEE!!

Can I replace her? :P

Confoozed. I thought you were the new big whig of creative everything at Hothead? If not, does that mean you're free to move over to Tell Tale and help shape more Monkey Island Tales? (OMG.)

EA??????? Worst publisher you have choosen...
Well at least the game will be awesome.

I don't think Ron choose the publisher.  Blame Hothead.

EA has more than one wing of publication.  Hothead is using "EA Partners", which is a subdivision that MANY "indie" companies are going to because they offer the best deal in terms of distribution, control over their IP and development processes.  Mr. Gilbert's previous collaborator is partnered with them (Tim Shafer/Double Fine Studios), and Id was publishing with them before their acquisition by Bethesda.

Those of you whining about how unholy EA is do not understand how the company works and how new/different management affects a company's culture.

PS3 and Xbox? what are those funny names you write?
what about us premium "Platinum" Level Grumpy Gamer subscribers?

Ron has nothing to do with the EA publishing deals, infact I people seem to run short on memory, so to clear things up, the plataforms DeathSpank was comming to was never confirmed to start with.

The first "confirmation" we had was when the game was shown to public, since they used Xbox360 to show it off, and the Menus and so on used the key scheme of the mentioned plataform.

Then, it was confirmed they had a deal with EA to publish it on the PS3 and Xbox360 Plataform, the reason? expansion so more players could play the title on their "favorite plataform", it was NEVER SAID IT WASN'T COMMING TO PC.

I'm not sure what kind of Deal they have with EA, but I'll show you people the possible scenarios:

A) It comes out on XBL and PS3 published by EA like it was confirmed, and, published by Hothead itself on the PC as a digital download paying [REDACTED], which I assume will be between 20$ to 30$.

B) It comes out on XBL and PS3, and depending on the Deal they made with EA, it could came X months later to PC published by Hothead or another publisher.

C) It doesn't come out to PC, YET this would be improbable, Why? Because of the post made by Ron itself, useless hes speaking of: Wii, PSP and/or iPhone/Ipod Touch, It is CLEAR he is speaking about the PC.

Hope this clears it up.

How appropriate, you fight like a cow.

Congrats Ron on Deathspank, very much looking forward to this and always admired your work in the games industry.

I just hope you stay as involved in the games business the industry needs more people like you.

Haven't you heard? He's moved in with Alice... yeah I know stole her right from under Atlas' feet.

Yay more blog posts

mmmmmm....I can smell some kind of return of Ron to Lucas or perhaps he'll join Telltale games. Both are attractive possibilities.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bInZ7_y4Lw&fmt=22

You write good articles, I will always be concerned about

What does this mean for the cliffhanger that is Deathspank? NO SEQUEL? WHY?????????

I'd like to thank Ron Gilbert for finally making a game that breaks out of the PC roots of the past projects - like games at Greehouse, a PC GAME DOWNLOAD SITE - utilizing money made from profits of PC GAMES, and then "redacting" the PC gamers with one of the best games they have ever made - not to mention a top 5 game! It's like Square using the money from Chrono Trigger to finance Final Fantasy 6 and 7 - and giving Chrono Trigger players the middle finger. No better than Fable making almost all of it's money from PC players and then dissing them with Fable II. You, and or whomever is responsible for the slap in the PC player's face by canceling the Deathspank series for the PC is the lowest form of ingrate in this industry. You a fucking parasite and I hope you choke on your profits and drown in Microsoft red tape. You said screw you to all of us - well right back at you, asshole.