Monkey Island returns to retail

Telltale Games’ downloadable Tales of Monkey Island series will make the move to UK retail next year, courtesy of Lace Mamba Global.

The publisher has signed a new partnership with the renowned digital games developer that will see it handle the newest Monkey Island game collection in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Europe.

Telltale’s head of publishing James Lamorticelli told MCV: The response to Monkey Island games over recent years has been tremendous. The series is particularly popular in the channels that Lace Mamba reaches.”

Tales of Monkey Island is an episodic series of point-and-click adventure games first released on PC and WiiWare in 2009.

A Collectors’ Edition of the series will be released for PC on March 25th, with bonus content and items. It will be the first retail release for a Monkey Island title since 2001’s Escape from Monkey Island.