Oh, glory. The wait is almost over. Telltale have just announced that the first episode of their series of Sam & Max games will be hitting the GameTap subscription service on the 17th of October, where it will have a “15-day exclusivity period” before it comes out on their own site on the 1st of November. The episode, entitled Culture Shock, is the first of six in this current “season”, and “begins as Sam and Max discover that a group of former child stars have become involved in nefarious deeds”. The episodes will be appearing monthly, but the really exiciting bit is the fact that, according to Ricardo Sanchez, GameTap Vice President of Content, “Telltale and GameTap are also co-producing new animated machinima “shorts,” which will premiere in November as a prelude to the second game episode, with more shorts airing between monthly episodes to give Sam & Max fans a regularly scheduled fix”.
Loving it. This is how episodic content should be done. Roll on November!