On the forums for online adventure gaming magazine The Inventory, Wolfgang Kierdorf, the director of adventure game developer Bad Brain Entertainment, stated, '[T]here are negotiations with LucasArts but I can't get into detail here. maybe this will be the surprise release of 2005. the game you all wanted but didn't get.' This is an obvious implication that Sam & Max 2, a highly anticipated game that was canceled earlier this year, is Bad Brain's target. (It's also possible that the company is seeking rights to Full Throttle 2, but that game was hardly something that we 'all wanted.')

[I dunno why this one didn't get posted, especially since this submission, which was basically the same thing except in reference to a possible developer instead of a possible publisher, did. Speaking of which, I made a mistake in referring to Big Brain as a developer. The fact that it is a publisher leads to interesting speculation that they may work with Telltale Games to make the Sam & Max sequel.]

[UPDATE: Zonk posted this story himself, with the only real difference being that it was based on a subsequent Adventure Games interview with Wolfgang Kierdorf instead of a forum post by him. Whatever.]

I will use this journal from now on to post rejected submissions. I don't do this to stroke my ego (though maybe that's part of it), but because some of my rejected submissions may be of some interest in the /. community despite not being accepted by the editors.

I haven't archived most of my submissions up to this point, so for anyone who cares, a summary of those:

Sam & Max Sequel Canceled: This one was actually posted. On the front page, no less. Don't ask me why /. says that it was rejected.

Square-Enix Producer Reveals GBA Plans: I don't remember exactly what this one was about, but it probably had something to do with the possibility of an English version of Final Fantasy 3 being ported to the system. This could've been rejected for any number of reasons.

Braben Finally Reveals Details on Elite IV: Read here.

Link Between IQ and Voter Preference?: A submission about that state IQ hoax that came out soon after the election. This was rejected because it was an obvious joke/troll submission. I had to give it a try, though, since the Politics section has basically been dead since the Democrats gave up.

Broussard Asks for Duke Nukem Forever Ideas: George Broussard is asking fans for ideas to put into his game, even though said game has been in development for somewhere between seven and nine years. I guess making fun of DNF is too passe for Slashdot. Incidentally, this submission took around five days to be rejected.

So, uh, here we go then.

Rob