Attention all who fight like dairy farmers or cows:

http://www.telltalegames.com/monkeyisland

Telltale Games (who brought you Sam And Max Seasons 1 and 2 and Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People) in cooperation with LucasArts (who essentially defined and killed the point and click adventure game) is on the verge of producing a couple of things. The first is an episodic series of games for PC Download and X-Box Live starting in July, once again bringing life to the once thought defunct Monkey Island series, staffed by a whole mess of people who worked on the original projects. Dave Grossman (Former LucasArts, now Telltale, one of the big three who wrote the original two games) is the design director, Ron Gilbert (the very writer of the first two games) was called in as a creative consultant, even Dominic Armato is excited to be flying back out to reprise his role as Guybrush Threepwood.

Secondly is a complete overhaul of the first game. The Secret Of Monkey Island Special Edition will be made accessible to a new generation of gamers complete with a new art style painting the backgrounds, new dialogue, a tweaked SCUMM Engine and vocals (once again, Dominic Armato all too happy to lend his pipes for Guybrush), I've gotta say the remake looks pretty sweet. If this does well on download play, it could give life back to the point and click adventure genre, something that's been dead for far too long and needed in the face of modern hardware (DS and Wii, I'm lookin' at you).