Tales of Monkey Island games are now available at Amazon's new channel as the first episodic series available for the company's recently launched Game Download Store. Each chapter of Tales of Monkey Island sells for USD 8.95, beginning with the first two chapters available for immediate download at www.amazon.com/GameDownloads in the United States. This also represents the first time that the Tales of Monkey Island episodes for PC have been available for purchase as individual episodes. Steering the intrepid Guybrush Threepwood through a grand pirate adventure has never been so easily accessible!

Opening this distribution relationship with Amazon.com introduces Tales of Monkey Island to new audiences of game players of all ages who can fulfill their aspirations of becoming adventurous, swashbuckling pirates, said James Lamorticelli Telltale's Vice President, Publishing.

Tales of Monkey Island has been Telltale's most successful digital episodic series launch to date, with critics and gamers finding their sea legs and responding positively to the first new original Monkey Island storyline in nine years. In the tradition of the great old movie serials with cliffhanger endings, the Tales of Monkey Island will unfold as an adventure over five months, with each episodic chapter raising the stakes on Guybrush Threepwood's quest to eradicate the insidious voodoo pox threatening the Caribbean, reunite with his wife and vanquish his arch rival the pirate LeChuck. The story deepens through interweaving threads in each chapter building to surprising twists in the grand finale coming this fall!

So sharpen your cutlass and get ready for a thrilling quest to solve the mysteries of Tales of Monkey Island and defeat your enemies to become a true pirate hero today.