GameTap Announces Exclusive Premiere of 'Sam & Max' - October 17
September 07 2006 - 12:04PM
PR Newswire (US)
The long-awaited first installment, titled "Sam & Max Episode
1: Culture Shock," to debut on October 17th, 2006; Machinima shorts
to debut in November ATLANTA, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Sam & Max
are finally back! GameTap, the first-of-its-kind broadband
entertainment network from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS,
Inc.), and interactive entertainment pioneer Telltale Games today
announced that GameTap subscribers will get exclusive 15-day access
to all "Sam & Max" episodes, beginning with the debut of the
first episode on October 17th, 2006. All told, Sam & Max:
Season 1 will boast six brand-new episodes with the pilot launching
on GameTap's first birthday, October 17th, and new episodes
launching one-a-month starting in December and running through
April. Each episode will be available to GameTap subscribers as
part of the monthly subscription rate of $9.95. Fifteen days after
each month's debut on GameTap, the episodes will also be available
for purchase for customers worldwide from the Telltale Games
website, http://www.telltalegames.com/. Pricing for purchases from
Telltale will be announced in the coming weeks. The October 17th
season premiere episode of Sam & Max: Season 1 will be called
"Culture Shock," and begins as Sam and Max discover that a group of
former child stars have become involved in nefarious deeds. Only
the six foot dog and his cunning rabbit companion can unravel the
mystery! Fans can learn more about the insidious details at
Telltale's Sam & Max games website. "Gamers get to play the new
episodes of Sam & Max first on GameTap, where the whole Sam
& Max experience is enriched with additional amazing content,"
said 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. With the new
machinima shorts and a behind-the-scenes documentary that brings
them inside 'The Making of' the new Sam & Max game, this
exclusive Sam & Max experience adds that much more value to the
monthly subscription." "GameTap has the vision, commitment and
talent to build a network that fosters unique and innovative
original content," said Dan Connors, CEO of Telltale, Inc. "We're
proud that we can contribute the first original interactive series
to kick off the programming next month." "We are pleased with our
first foray into what we believe will be a new way of debuting and
distributing original games," said Stuart Snyder, GameTap's Senior
Vice President and General Manager. "Original and episodic content
has been the cornerstone of many Turner properties and a natural
fit for the gaming audience." Over the years, the hilarious
detective dog and "rabbity-thing" have adventured through comics,
PC games and an animated television series, attracting countless
fans and great critical acclaim along the way. Sam & Max:
Season 1 marks the crime-fighting duo's first foray into digital
distribution, as well as GameTap's first outing as a producer and
co- publisher. Sam & Max: Season 1 joins GameTap's existing
vault of more than 600 video games, from arcade classics to
current-generation hits, along with original GameTap TV
programming, Cartoon Network favorites and celebrity interviews and
insights. The episodes will be also available for purchase on
Telltale's website, http://www.telltalegames.com/, after the
exclusive period on GameTap. About Telltale Telltale delivers Tales
for Your Imagination - high caliber interactive entertainment which
features engaging stories, strong characters, and rich
environments. A new era of interactive entertainment is emerging,
with customers expecting more from their investment in play time.
Telltale is developing and deploying cinematic quality animation
and storytelling technologies, to create entertaining and exciting
interactive adventures which meet these new expectations. Staffed
with long time industry veterans, Telltale creates tales based on
Jeff Smith's Bone series, Steve Purcell's Sam & Max characters
and television's popular CSI program in partnership with Ubisoft.
Telltale offers content development and custom publishing services
for license-holders interested in adapting their properties for
interactive delivery. Telltale has created innovative tools,
designed specifically for rapid development of high quality,
space-efficient titles for digital distribution. Telltale titles
can be downloaded from its website, as well as online partners such
as Yahoo! Games, Direct-to-Drive, Trymedia Systems, Boonty, and
CNET. To learn more about Telltale, please visit
http://www.telltalegames.com/. About GameTap GameTap is the leader
in digital game distribution and broadband entertainment. Launched
by Turner Broadcasting in 2005, it now delivers more than 600
authentic versions of the greatest console, computer and arcade
games on demand, including original and exclusive episodic
properties. In addition to games for every age and interest,
GameTap offers more than 400 original entertainment programs,
popular video streams and thriving virtual communities to
broadband-connected PCs. Continually updated with new games,
programs and features, GameTap is a downloadable application that
supports navigation and game play using keyboard and mouse, as well
as most USB peripherals. Go to http://www.gametap.com/ and expand
your playground. About Turner Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
(TBS, Inc.), a Time Warner company, is a major producer of news and
entertainment products around the world and the leading provider of
programming for the basic cable industry. About Sam & Max Steve
Purcell published "Monkeys Violating the Heavenly Temple" as his
first Sam & Max comic in 1987. Sam & Max solved assorted
crimes and mysteries as "Freelance Police" in their sturdy 1960
Black and White De Soto Adventurer from their home base in New York
City. After a series of follow-up comic books, Purcell worked with
a team at LucasArts to create the critically acclaimed "Sam &
Max Hit the Road" adventure game in 1993. The dog and bunny duo
moved to television, in an award-winning animated series in 1997
and are now appearing in an all-new webcomic series at
http://www.samandmaxcomics.com/. DATASOURCE: GameTap CONTACT:
Caroline Capers of Access Communications, +1-415-844-6246, or , for
GameTap; or Misty Skedgell of TBS, Inc., +1-404-885-4396, or ; or
Emily Morganti of Telltale, Inc., +1-415-258-1638, ext. 501, or Web
site: http://www.gametap.com/ http://www.turner.com/
http://www.telltalegames.com/ http://www.samandmaxcomics.com/
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