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Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded creeps to retail October 29
Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded is getting a boxed retail version, which will hit store shelves on October 29. The game is a remake of the first game in the series, and features music by Austin Wintory, the composer of Journey's Grammy-nominated soundtrack. Reloaded earned $655,182 on Kickstarter in May 2012, and launched on digital platforms in June, with the retail version originally being planned for July. Our review of the adventure game found it to be a "relic from a time when the thought of a video game character dropping an f-bomb was simply beyond consideration."
Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded review: Not too tired for another round
The internet was decidedly not for porn in 1987, leaving mainstream PC users to content themselves with fare like Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards. It was an "adult" adventure game from Sierra On-Line that was more silly than sexy and functioned on about a sixth-grade level of sophistication. But it was daring for its day and brought some genuinely amusing moments to the table, and it ultimately made enough of a splash to become one of the most famous games of all time – or infamous, if you're marketing a sequel – and it made a games industry star out of its creator, Al Lowe. 26 years later, developer Replay Games has added some new content and changed up a few puzzles for Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded, but the plot, characters, setting, schoolyard sophistication and even the ridiculous pre-game quiz to prove you're old enough to handle this sort of digital bacchanalia remain wholly intact.%Gallery-184790%
Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded boxed version hits shelves mid-July
Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded is due out in retail form in the middle of July, following its digital launch on June 27. Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded was Kickstarted last year, raising $655,000 of a requested $500,000, and features music by Journey composer Austin Wintory.
Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded aims for May 31 launch in NA, June in EU
Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded needs to work out the kinks in its pick-up lines, but the game should be out by May 31 in North America, Replay Games CEO Paul Trowe told Shacknews."We should be in beta this week," Trowe said. "We need to get all the bugs and game freezes out of the way, and maybe do pick-up lines with the actors that may have been missed. We'll get the game to about 7,500 of our Kickstarter backers for the beta test, and they'll also be testing foreign language versions as well."The beta should run about two weeks, Trowe said, and when it launches, Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded will be $20 for PC, Mac and Linux. During GDC, Trowe told us he hoped to see Reloaded out between May 15 - 30. The game is scheduled to hit Europe in June for £15.
Leisure Suit Larry out second half of May, free-to-play Larry casino game in works
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards' HD remake will be available sometime between May 15 - 30, Replay Games CEO Paul Trowe told us at GDC. We got some time with the game, which we learned had many of its puzzles altered so fans of the original game can't just power through it. The game will be available on PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Steam, Ouya, Linux and Blackberry.Asked what's next for Replay Games, Trowe told us they are weighing the options of remaking Leisure Suit Larry 2 or creating an eighth all-new installment in the series. Before that, Replay will create a free-to-play Leisure Suit Larry casino game. Asked if it'll be in the style of Sierra's Hoyle games series, Trowe replied, "We haven't written the design document yet."The LSL remake was funded through Kickstarter, receiving $655,182 in contributions. The update has been tweaked with new character models of sponsors and there's even a walk of shame outside Lefty's bar, with stars joking about specific about sponsors. Replay isn't planning on a Kickstarter for future games, with Trowe noting they should have the money off this game to fund future projects.
Journey composer Austin Wintory writing score for Leisure Suit Larry
We can't think of two games that could possibly be more disparate from one another than Journey and Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, but we apparently live in the wackiest of all possible universes because Journey's Grammy-nominated composer Austin Wintory will also be lending his talents to Larry's upcoming adventure. Weird."That's my era as a gamer growing up," Wintory told Polygon. "This was like a fantasy to work on a game like that." Leisure Suit Larry creator Al Lowe confirmed with Wintory that he was okay with writing "seedy, back alley kind of stuff" before finalizing the deal, so we probably shouldn't expect the same sort of grand, sweeping orchestral majesty that Wintory penned for Journey, as heard above.Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is slated to really class up the joint sometime next year.
Leisure Suit Larry won't finish early or on time, delayed to 2013
The HD remake of Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is breaking out the slow jams. Its Kickstarter campaign successfully raised $655,000 last week, which means more content in-game and a longer development cycle in reality, Replay Games has announced. The title was originally slated to drop in October, but it has now been pushed to launch in 2013 so Replay can add "more rooms, another girl, and all new dialogue in the game."Founder Paul Trowe said Replay could probably make the game complete by December, but he wants to avoid the holiday madness and make sure it's fully polished at launch. He's set up a development blog for voyeurs fans to keep track of Leisure Suit Larry's progress.
Leisure Suit Larry Kickstarter finishes, towels off with $655K
The HD remake of Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards has concluded its Kickstarter campaign, with $655,182 in contributions left on the nightstand. Another $20,000 more in PayPal contributions were wired for services to be rendered.The remake of the mature-themed sexventure series, about the down-on-his-luck and looking-to-get-down Larry Laffer, reached its $500,000 goal last week.Replay Games, which announced the venture last October, couldn't obtain funding through the regular venture capital channels and went to Kickstarter. Oh, Replay, you didn't have to go through all that effort earlier. Never doubt the internet's desire for smut and pervy puns.
Leisure Suit Larry HD meets its Kickstarter goal
Thanks to backers, Replay Games should have no issue finishing up work on Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards. With only six days left on the Kickstarter campaign, the $500,000 goal has been met.We wonder if somebody dropped the 50 grand to change the "Ken sent me" password? Replay Games has expressed interest in updating other Leisure Suit Larry titles, so we expect to hear about those soon enough – at least, after the folks at Replay finish counting their cash and wrapping up work on Leisure Suit Larry HD.[Thanks, Tom]
Leisure Suit Larry HD seeks a Kickstart
For $50,000, you can alter the "Ken sent me" password in Leisure Suit Larry, which is used to gain access to a room even seedier than the bar to which it's connected. You can forever change it to your own name. This profane act is the most tempting, most outrageous reward tier for a new Kickstarter by Replay Games, to fund continued development of the HD remake of Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards.Replay wants to localize the game into more languages and put it on more devices -- and it has plans for Larrys 2-7 as well -- so it's joined the Kickstarter gravy train to seek $500,000. Other reward tiers offer digital or physical copies of the game, posters, and even Larry-branded condoms.How much do we have to pay in for an updated Laffer Utilities?
Leisure Suit Larry coming in HD next year
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards returns in HD for the series' 25th anniversary in Q4 2012. This will be the second update of the bawdy 1987 Sierra adventure game classic, which went from 16-color EGA art and a keyboard interface to stunning VGA graphics and mouse controls in 1991. EGM reports the update will be handled by Replay Games, with the assistance and blessing of series creator Al Lowe -- something that the most recent entries in the series didn't have. The game is planned for almost every PC, console and mobile digital distribution platform. "I'm overjoyed to see Larry released from his digital dungeon after all this time, and be placed in the hands of someone who understands him and wants to see him, brought back to the forefront by people who love him and understand him," Lowe told EGM. If successful, Replay Games plans to keep on doing the HD updates, and doing them well, working its way through the series' original seven installments (Leisure Suite Larry 4: The Missing Floppies will remain missing). Replay is also planning on new adventures for Larry Laffer in the internet age.
