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Department of Death News Feed http://www.grim-fandango.com/ Latest Grim Fandango related news http://www.grim-fandango.com/media/graphics/button_cafe.gif http://www.grim-fandango.com The Department of Death 88 31 Grim Fandango Article in The Escapist http://www.grim-fandango.com/comments.php?type=news&id=22 Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:51:11 -0500 An interesting article has appeared in this week's issue of the online magazine The Escapist talking about Grim Fandango's impressive fan community. It also includes quotes from interviews with us and the webmasters of the Grim Fandango Network. You can see the article, "Walk, Don't Run", here. We would also like to talk about the Grim Fandango Half-Life 2 Mod. We have a fair amount of content completed, but due to time issues with members of the team, the project has been making very slow progress for a while, and has recently pretty much hit a standstill.

However, we are willing to attempt to relaunch it. If we can get together a large enough team, then we'll start working on the project again. If we can't, then it's obvious there isn't enough interest in the mod for it to go ahead. So, if you (or anyone you know) are interested in helping with modelling, mapping, texturing, design or anything else, please let us know, and if there's enough interest we'll be able to continue the project. New Year Update http://www.grim-fandango.com/comments.php?type=news&id=21 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:30:00 -0500 Time for our first news update in the new year! First of all we hope everyone had a merry christmas and a happy new year and wish you all the best! Second of all, there are now Grim Fandango T-shirts available at Bang Bang T-Shirts. Show off how much you love Grim Fandango by buying a Manny Calavera T-shirt (note that these are not official T-shirts by Lucasarts, but pretty cool none the less).

Thirdly, on new year's day a patch was released by Alper Kurt with the great support of Oyungezer which translates the text into Turkish. We were also notified about a fan-created translation into Portugese by the group ScummBR. Both patches can be downloaded here. That's all for now, but we'll be back very soon with more updates. Greek Translation Patch Released http://www.grim-fandango.com/comments.php?type=news&id=20 Fri, 18 May 2007 09:35:35 -0500 A few months after the release of the release of the Chinese translation patch, the Greek Grim Fandango Translation Team have released version 1.0 of their fan-made greek translation patch for Grim Fandango. The patch translates the subtitles and game menus into Greek, aswell as installing a modified version of bgbennyboy's Grim Fandango lancher with a new language selection option. The patch is small in file size and easy to install, and can be downloaded from our downloads section. For screenshots see our languages page. Grim Fandango Works with Vista http://www.grim-fandango.com/comments.php?type=news&id=19 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:14:23 -0500 UPDATE - January 2008 - Well, this news item seems to have become the section of the visited by people triyng to get Grim Fandango on Vista, so all known information is listed below: If you can't install the game, download the improved installer created by bgbennyboy which should work with all versions of Windows, including Vista and 64 bit versions. If you can't run the game try using the improved launcher (also created by bgbennyboy) which should work with all versions of Windows. Member GFFFE informed us that Grim Fandango does indeed run on Vista as long as you carry out the following steps 1) Install the patch 2) Run the game as administrator 3) Set the compatability mode to "Windows 98, Me" If you also have Vista with Grim Fandango installed let us know how it goes for you. New Fan Music http://www.grim-fandango.com/comments.php?type=news&id=18 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:34:23 -0500 For the first time since the site's launch we have some new fan music. This piece by avedeus is a remake of Chepito's "Let It Shine" - make sure you have a listen. Perhaps this will encourage others to start producing Grim Fandango fan music... who knows? We also now have our own Grim Fandango walkthrough added to the hints section written by Iron Kat. If you haven't completed the game yet remember to only use it when you really must. Those of us who didn't have learned from our mistakes

. Happy Valentine's Day! Chinese Translation Released http://www.grim-fandango.com/comments.php?type=news&id=17 Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:52:23 -0500 Despite the fact that Grim Fandango has been officially translated into quite a few languages, there are still many languages which it hasn't been translated into. One of these languages is Chinese. After over a year's work, the Chinese fan-translated version of Grim Fandango, created by Bro.Ichi and Pscj was completed in late 2006. More information about the patch can be found on our languages page and the patch can be downloaded from our downloads page and installed in a matter of minutes. It isn't an easy job translating the game - every line of dialogue has to be translated by hand (a computerised translation would lose a lot of the meaning in the dialogue), so make sure you take a look. The Department of Death team would also like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Concept Art - Part 1 http://www.grim-fandango.com/comments.php?type=news&id=16 Mon, 9 Oct 2006 16:39:23 -0500 The first batch of new pieces of Grim Fandango concept art have been added to the concept art page.

The above is just a small selection - make sure you visit the concept art page for all eight. Keep checking back for the rest! Grim Fandango in Concert http://www.grim-fandango.com/comments.php?type=news&id=15 Sat, 9 Sep 2006 05:18:24 -0500 As can be seen from this press release, the Video Games Live show will be returning to the Hollywood Bowl on September 21st featuring something I'm sure all Grim Fandango fans will appreciate Quote

New segments include a live performance of excerpts from the new Halo® 3 score as released this year at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, and the world premiere of Civilization IV, plus a rare special acoustic performance by the original Lucas Arts composers performing Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, and more.

Update - you can now view a recording here on YouTube (thanks to VampireNaomi for finding it). Source: World of Monkey Island