After the great news of Lucasarts revamping and bringing the original The Secret of Monkey Island up to date for 2009, we also have some more great news concerning everyones favorite pirate game franchise. Telltale Games are going to be bringing a new series of Monkey Island games to your PC, they are suitably going to be called the Tales of Monkey Island and stars all your favorite characters

An all time adventure classic The Secret of Monkey Island is all revamped and polished up for the modern day by the legendary Lucasarts. One of my all time favorite adventure games Monkey Island had just about everything going for it at the time, funny scripts, great graphics and the perfect balance of difficulty and reward. Well Lucasarts has been hard at work it seems on crafting a new updated version of the classic with brand new graphics and a revamped engine, along with full audio dialogue

AGS is a handy little tool for the adventure game fan who wants to create their own 2d adventure game in the style of Lucasarts and Sierra's classic games from the nineties. AGS or the Adventure Game Studio makes it easier to create adventure games for the non programmers out there by having a set of tools that allow you to skip some of the complex processes that go on behind the scenes. This doesn't mean it’s a walk in the park however, having some good computer knowledge and a basic grasp of programming or at least some of its concepts will help you along immensely

Sarien.net is one unique website owned and run by Martin Kool who is obviously a fan of the adventure game genre and that means he has good taste. If you take a trip over to sarien.net you’ll find some classic PC adventure games that you can play in your web browser. The bonus here though is that you play the game at the same time as everyone else, and you get to see them wandering round the game world trying to solve the puzzles

what happens when you mix classic old school gaming with new technology? Well in this case you end up with Malstrums Mansion an old school graphic point and click adventure that you play in the comfort of your own web browser. I can testify it's definitely a throw back game with retro and stylish monochrome graphics that help to enhance its atmosphere

thehouseofgames.net has a massive selection of games for you to try out. They have a cool retro site design with a great little pixel graphic header

dosspot.com has a good selection of quality games for download. It also has a classy site design and lots of pictures for easy navigation

AGS or the Adventure Game Studios is a system for creating adventure games in the style of classics like Monkey Island