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It was a thing of a moment. We decided to try some live streaming of Monkey Island 2, special edition. After realizing that Xfire fails miserably with streaming games that are not listed as supported we went looking for another solution.

Livestream’s Procaster was the first thing we tried and while we had some trouble at first it picked up rather nicely and the overall quality was decent enough.

Procaster supports streaming of any Direct3D game together with sound and in the free version you can mix output of your web camera and your screencast. We also had some trouble with the sound being recorded from the camera and we needed few minutes to figure out how to turn off the extra sound input. Here is some room for improvement, an audio mixer that can be controlled while streaming.

All in all, the broadcasting was an interesting experience and we are likely to do some more screencasts in the future. We were pleasantly surprised with the recording of our video. If you missed it and you are not bored with pirate oriented adventure games you can watch our screencast below.

If you have not been living under a rock, than you probably know that Lucas Arts in cooperation with Telltale Games decided to revive and old game character and give it its own gaming mini series.  You can check the details in this announcement. Since this gaming format is fairly new, we will continue to watch how it will affect upcoming gaming future.

Further more we have found out that the first chapter of the Tales of Monkey Island, titled Launch of the Screaming Narwhal was released to the public.  You can download a PC downloadable demo at:

• FileShack
• Gamershell
• Telltale Games

Try it and tell us about it.

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