Hints, speculation and curiosity.

[apignarb]

The plot thickens.

http://www.dudebrough.com/

If that isn't a hint at who or what their first game game will be about, you can call me... Well something less flattering.

[jp-30]

Nice spotting!

:)

And, well it's cheating but... whois lookup (https://www.discountdomains.co.nz/public/whois_record/domain,dudebrough.com)

http://www.dudebrough.com/images/ted.jpg

[joebot33]

good find guys... how did you find that?

[apignarb]

Yeah, I did the whois lookup too, but didn't want to ruin the suspense entirely. Hehe.

And joebot33, It was added today in "related links" in the community section.

[Burn]

I think you've got them, that there has to be there first game. Unless they are using that to throw us of.

EDIT: Brenden was probably working on that, no wonder he was so long with the blog which Heather wrote for him.

[jp-30]

Yeah, I did the whois lookup too, but didn't want to ruin the suspense entirely. Hehe.

Yeah, I hesitated too, but knew if I didn't post it someone else would have... :p

[Nappi]

I guess telltale games liked that halo2's ilovebees thing. :)
Maybe this is the hole in the closet. I just don't know what this means.

[Captain_Le_Chimp]

This is the raw who is record for dudebrough.com
Query: dudebrough.com
Registry: whois.register.com
Results:
dudebrough.com is [ 69.42.89.180 ]
Organization:
Tell Tale Entertainment
Troy Molander
1201 Andersen Drive
San Rafael, CA 94901
US
Phone: 415.258.1638
Email: troy@telltalegames.com
Registrar Name....: Register.com
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com
Domain Name: DUDEBROUGH.COM
Created on..............: Wed, Nov 10, 2004
Expires on..............: Thu, Nov 10, 2005
Record last updated on..: Wed, Nov 10, 2004
Administrative Contact:
Tell Tale Entertainment
Troy Molander
1201 Andersen Drive
San Rafael, CA 94901
US
Phone: 415.258.1638
Email: troy@telltalegames.com
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Register.Com
Domain Registrar
575 8th Avenue - 11th Floor
New York, NY 10018
US
Phone: 902-749-2701
Fax..: 902-749-5429
Email: domain-registrar@register.com
Domain servers in listed order:
DNS19.REGISTER.COM
216.21.234.80
DNS20.REGISTER.COM
216.21.226.80
Register your domain name at http://www.register.com


maybe there just want to fool us

[Captain_Le_Chimp]

This is the raw who is record for dudebrough.com
Query: dudebrough.com
Registry: whois.register.com
Results:
dudebrough.com is [ 69.42.89.180 ]
Organization:
Tell Tale Entertainment
Troy Molander
1201 Andersen Drive
San Rafael, CA 94901
US
Phone: 415.258.1638
Email: troy@telltalegames.com
Registrar Name....: Register.com
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com
Domain Name: DUDEBROUGH.COM
Created on..............: Wed, Nov 10, 2004
Expires on..............: Thu, Nov 10, 2005
Record last updated on..: Wed, Nov 10, 2004
Administrative Contact:
Tell Tale Entertainment
Troy Molander
1201 Andersen Drive
San Rafael, CA 94901
US
Phone: 415.258.1638
Email: troy@telltalegames.com
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Register.Com
Domain Registrar
575 8th Avenue - 11th Floor
New York, NY 10018
US
Phone: 902-749-2701
Fax..: 902-749-5429
Email: domain-registrar@register.com
Domain servers in listed order:
DNS19.REGISTER.COM
216.21.234.80
DNS20.REGISTER.COM
216.21.226.80
Register your domain name at http://www.register.com


maybe there just want to fool us

[Captain_Le_Chimp]

maybe there just want to fool us

[DFKT]

EDIT: Brenden was probably working on that, no wonder he was so long with the blog which Heather wrote for him.

Guess you're, like, right, and stuff: http://www.dudebrough.com/games.htm
It's the gnarlyfied-version review of Blades Of Stenchtar.

[HieroHero]

hilarious site dude! so is this guy brendens alter ego :D if they can revive adventure gaming and the word cowabunga at the same time they are true geniuses

[Captain_Le_Chimp]

maybe.......

[2GooD]

Doesn't "Dudebrough" sound a trifle like "Guybrush"?

[oldbushie]

You mean it's changing from "I wanna be a pirate" to "I wanna be a surfer"? XD

[Captain_Le_Chimp]

i hope not

[MOAB]

Wow, nice find dudes. So who originally brought this up? This man will definately credited on my site.

Telltale, any statement regarding that site? I just hope this isn't anything like Bungie's "I love bees"-crap....

[Captain_Le_Chimp]

Wow, nice find dudes. So who originally brought this up? This man will definately credited on my site.

Telltale, any statement regarding that site? I just hope this isn't anything like Bungie's "I love bees"-crap....

i dont know

[Burn]

They've got a link to I Love Bees on the community page, oh and apignarb
posted about this first.

[avidfan]

Has anyone emailed Dudbrough yet?

[cappuchok]

And this "Dudebrough" character... is he, umm... well-known? I seem never to have heard of the guy at all. Odd.
So I guess this is not to be their first licensed game, then. More likely he's an original TellTale character, right?

[Captain_Le_Chimp]

maybe he's just a Npc

[Burn]

They could've said it would be a well known franchise just to thow us off.

[Captain_Le_Chimp]

maybe it's just Brendans Alter-Ego :-/

[tyraarane]

Or maybe this has something to do with those fun, smaller games they promised us...?

[Captain_Le_Chimp]

only time knows

[ThreeHeadedMonkey]

Some of my crew and I are totally takin a trip to sunny California for the three day weekend next week dudes!

I've got it! This must be a hint about when the game is going to be released!

[arczangel]

I don't think it's supposed to be a puzzle...this isn't BBE after all. I don't think telltale is trying to waste our time...

[guybrushguy]

ware did you find this? this website gets me thinking....

[artwking]

It's listed here on the Telltale community page: http://www.telltalegames.com/community

It's the most recent link (Dec. 1, 2004) posted in the "Related Links" section on the right. For some reason, they're listed oldest to newest, so you have to scroll way down to the bottom to see it. That's probably where apignarb found it, because that's the same day he started this thread.

[jp-30]

And in his 2nd post in this thread he states;

...It was added today in "related links" in the community section.

which really does arrest the need for all this speculation of how the information was first discovered.

[artwking]

So what you're saying is that apignarb is not a Telltale double agent, planting the information and feigning ignorance?

And I was almost certain he was... ;)

[Captain_Le_Chimp]

didnt see taht link

[apignarb]

So what you're saying is that apignarb is not a Telltale double agent, planting the information and feigning ignorance?

Shhhhhh.

Hush woman.

[artwking]

So what you're saying is that apignarb is not a Telltale double agent, planting the information and feigning ignorance?

Shhhhhh.

Hush woman.

I'm no woman.
I'm a man, man! [-(

[apignarb]

Wow, girlfriend. Those quote tags really work like a charm. Is it just me, or don't the quotes show?

[ThreeHeadedMonkey]

It's not just you, looks like this is another error.

[apignarb]

Jump to last post works on recent threads though, that's gotta count for something.

[artwking]

I noticed the quotes were all screwy, too. I was going to say something about it, but I thought maybe it was just my computer and I was going crazy. Or someone infected my computer with a virus that only targets the quotes in the Telltale forum.

Wait, that is crazy.

[guybrushguy]

the quote tags dont show, ive read threw the help section my forum erea and i cant find the reason, i guess we should just start putting " and " at the beginging and end of everything that we quote. i'll email troy and ask him to take a look into it.

[JCD]

Well, now we know where that character was supposed to used.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm pretty relieved it wasn't in their adventure game. I guess there is still a tiny piece of hope of it being Monkey Island...

[Captain_Le_Chimp]

I don't know where I shall write this rumors/news:

The NGC Magazin UK made an interview with Lucas Arts about their future projects and plans:
Lucas Arts mentioned that they want to develop for the new Systems Xbox2 and Playstation3.
At the moment they are testing some Prototypes with the development kits and tools.
NGC UK was also asking if any possibility exist, that Lucas Arts will support the new handhelds from Sony and Nintendo.
"Lucas Arts wants to support the PSP and the Nintendo Ds. The abilities of the Nintendo Ds are great and the Developers have many ways to create new games", said Tom Sarris spokesman of Lucas Arts, " Lucas Arts have the chance to revive old classics." After the question "Which projects are planed?", they said they tested already a conversion of Monkey Island 3 for the NintendoDS. "But It is just an experiment phase" stressed Sarris, "Projects could be canceld. We were also discussing, if we shall convert The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2. LeChucks Revenge in the Style of The Curse Of Monkey Island on the PC. But it depends on severel factors. We thought this Games already died, but we got many fanmails about new Adventures. Monkey Island and other Adventures are the perfect genre for the Nintendo DS. Maybe we could realize our old plans and release them on the Nintendo DS . After all we will see The Remakes of the first 3 Monkey Parts on Nintendos new handheld " he laughed. Than the NGC Magazin UK got some demonstrations.
More Information about the visit in the Lucas Arts main studio are going to be print in the next magazin.

Some Screenshots from the CMI Test Version:



http://img14.exs.cx/img14/3551/monkey28ll.jpg


http://img14.exs.cx/img14/4194/monkey43xc.jpg


http://img14.exs.cx/img14/7584/monkey58ts.jpg


http://img14.exs.cx/img14/7453/monkey69jr.jpg


http://img14.exs.cx/img14/5994/monkey88yv.jpg


http://img14.exs.cx/img14/1161/monkey75lh.jpg


Monkey Island was also listed on DVD box office for some hours.

[Vark]

From http://www.computerandvideogames.com/

"Our first port of telephonic call was LucasArts itself, which promptly told us it "does not comment on rumour and speculation."
So we gave Tom East, the editor of NGC, a holler. When we asked him if the magazine was indeed running an interview with LucasArts in which this information was revealed East said, "Not that I'm aware of."

Then we tried Nintendo Official Magazine, just in case N-DS had magazine names mixed up. "It's certainly not us," said NOM editor Tim Street when asked if the new issue of NOM carried these comments."

It'd be great if it was true though, but I doubt it.

[artwking]

"We were also discussing, if we shall convert The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2. LeChucks Revenge in the Style of The Curse Of Monkey Island on the PC. But it depends on severel factors. We thought this Games already died, but we got many fanmails about new Adventures. Monkey Island and other Adventures are the perfect genre for the Nintendo DS. Maybe we could realize our old plans and release them on the Nintendo DS . After all we will see The Remakes of the first 3 Monkey Parts on Nintendos new handheld"

Monkey Island 1 & 2 don't need to be remade. They're plenty beautiful enough. And if LucasArts was going to "revive the classics" (which I doubt they will, especially JUST for the Nintendo DS), I would rather have new adventures instead of just polished remakes produced for a quick buck.

[jp-30]

I guess there is still a tiny piece of hope of it being Monkey Island...

Umm. No there's not, really.

1. For starters, LucasArts have cancelled their last 2 adventures. Do you think there's been a significant marketplace shifty that would make them reconsider the things that caused Sam & Max to be cancelled?

2. Also LucasArts aren't going to give away their own Intellectual Property. SO the only way Telltale would make a MI game is under license to LucasArts. And then see 1 above.

Also, regarding that Nintendo DS info, Tom Sarris left LucasArts years ago, so it's almost definately a hoax article.

[misanthrope]

wouldnt it be cool if telltale came out with a texas hold'em game?

[GoldenYoshi]

I emailed Ted. I wrote:

> Dear Dudebrough,
>
> There's this guy at my school that says I look like Guybrush
> Threepwood.
> Do you know who this Guybrush fellow is?
>

He wrote:
Yah, totally...

You ever play these rad adventure games called Monkey Island? It was
like, Secret of Monkey Island and stuff. The dude in there is named
Guybrush Threepwood. He wants to be a pirate, much like I want to go
surfing every day. You should way check em out. They rule!

So I guess you have like, blond hair in a pony tail and a honkin big nose?
Am I right?

Later dude!
Ted

--
Life is just one long struggle to make a desert into a beach.

I replied:

Nah, my hair is a different color. I've played all the Monkey Island games though. Do you think there will ever be another Monkey Island game? Maybe from another company besides LucasArts?

Later

I don't know, I thought I'd give it a shot. [:">]

[JCD]

Well, one can always dream...

[hellomoto]

I didn't realise that that was a serious e-mail ted thing. Ah well. Random e-mails heading that way in the near future.

[Captain_Le_Chimp]

that interview was fake