As is often the case this time of year, Steve Purcell has sent out a great piece of holiday themed artwork starring the worlds favorite crimefighting animal duo (click for full version). And, for fun, here’s one from a couple years back.

So maybe I forgot to renew the domain name. Fortunately Dotster is kind and didn’t give it away to some mysterious domain squatter before I could even notice.

Anyway, I wonder what’s going on in the world of Sam & Max. There hasn’t been much news on Bad Brain (see below) since those initial announcements. Wonder if anything’s cooking with that, or if it’s died on the vine? We’ll see I guess.

Take this one with a sizeable grain of salt. Over at the website and online adventure magazine, “The Inventory,” Wolfgang Kierdorf, spokesman for German game publisher Bad Brain Entertainment, made some thinly-veiled hints about a project they’re persuing, involving the possible revival of our favorite crime-stomping Freelance Police.

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“…also there 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 (except for a fine trailer)…”

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One can take an educated guess as to what game (and what trailer) he’s alluding to, but given Sam & Max’s extremely bumpy and failure-ridden road in the past few years, I wouldn’t set aside the $49.95 just yet. I will, however, be keeping my fingers crossed and my eye on the news. It’s about time something like this happened.