Monkey Island legend Ron Gilbert had big plans for a retro Zelda-style open-world RPG, but publishers said no: "They didn’t look at it as 'we're gonna make $100 millio…

His new roguelike's satirical setting is based out of the feeling that "capitalism has just taken over, and it really is the ...
GameSpot

Game With Amazing Premise Has Been Canceled

Legendary game designer and programmer Ron Gilbert (Monkey Island) has revealed that one of his exciting-sounding upcoming projects has been canceled due in part to investors not coming to the table ...

Ron Gilbert canceled his Zelda-inspired RPG, in part because a good publisher is hard to come by these days: 'It's like they have formulas that they apply to games to try t…

Although, Gilbert once described it as "the game I always wanted to play," as our initial news piece about the RPG states, ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

That Zelda-ish, Diablo-ish RPG Monkey Island designer Ron Gilbert was working on has, unfortunately, been canned

Ron Gilbert announced he was working on a classic Zelda-like RPG last year, except because of funding issues it's since been ...

After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death

If you know the name Ron Gilbert, it’s probably for his decades of work on classic point-and-click adventure games like ...
PC Gamer

Monkey Island is coming to Sea of Thieves, and because of that, so am I

LucasArts' iconic adventure game will be folded into Rare's pirate sim in a new three-part expansion. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...
GamesIndustry

How Ron Gilbert returned to Monkey Island 30 years later

At Devcom today, the team behind Return to Monkey Island shed light on the project's origins and development. The panel discussion was called 'Beneath The Return of Monkey Island: Q&A with LeCrew', ...
IGN

Monkey Island Creator Is Making a Game That Looks a Lot Like Classic Zelda

In 2022, fans of the 1990s adventure series Monkey Island finally got another game with Return to Monkey Island, which notably marked creator Ron Gilbert's first time directing a Monkey Island project ...
Kotaku

Return to Monkey Island

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Return to Monkey Island Return to Monkey Island, the long-awaited follow-up to the legendary Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz

Classic adventure game Monkey Island returns to mobile

Classic adventure game series Monkey Island is set to make the jump from PC and console to handheld devices for the first time since 2015, with the latest instalment, Return to Monkey Island, ...
Adventure Gamers

The Booze Of Monkey Island

The Booze of Monkey Island is a mini point-and-click adventure game based on the ‘Monkey Island’ series created by Ron Gilbert and LucasArts. Is it an official game of the series? No, it is an ...
Kotaku

Monkey Island Zero

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Monkey Island Zero Trying to name the five best RPGs of the past 10 years set off a lengthy conversation Buckle up, these are some incredibly memorable ...