Back to the Future: The Game Message Board

While you don't need Tony Hawk to realize that the HUVr Back to the Future hoverboards were fake, the legendary skateboarder still felt it needed some explanation.Read more...

Anyone who saw Back to the Future II came out of the theater wishing they had a hoverboard. One day, we told ourselves. One day hoverboards would become a reality. Is that day today? Well, no.Read more...

The next WoW expansion, Warlords of Draenor will focus on orcs, but most importantly time travel. As if the lore wasn't already confusing enough, WoD will make sure we get lost in the history of orcs and humans. But thanks to Redditor trytech, we might have a saviour, none other than Doc Brown from Back to the Future. Read more...

Someone on Twitter is reenacting Back to the Future—"in real time"—creating nearly 50 accounts for all of the characters (and the DeLorean). If you like the movie, you'll love The Hill Valley Project. Seven hours ago, Marty saved George from getting run over, and he should wake up in Lorraine's bedroom any minute now.Read more...

As long as you don't have a hankering for The Walking Dead, pretty much every other Telltale Games series is available now on the App Store for 99 cents an episode. That includes all of Back to the Future, Tales of Monkey Island and Jurassic Park.

If you're not looking for an adventure game and just want to play some cards with buddies, there's always Poker Night 2. The sale will last until July 7, unless you have a Delorean and a Mr. Fusion, because then time simply has no linear meaning to you.

#lego You asked for it, quite literally, and now you're getting it: a small, but charming set of Back to the Future LEGO. Picked as part of the company's Cusoo initiative, which rewards popular fan-made sets with the chance of becoming real products, next year we'll be getting...something. More »

#itasha It would probably feature a Delorean that looks like this. Behold, the itasha DMC-12, complete with an "OUTATIME" California plate. More »

A portion of a C3 review...

Fun, witty, and mad. This is how a Back to the Future game should be. The return of the cast make this game instantly memorable and further exploration into the universe is always welcome. Telltale scored themselves some points by not messing with the original material, merely creating an arc outside of the fact and doing it well. It's just a shame that it's so held back by lazy porting. Back to the Future: The Game is still fun, though.

Full review here

A portion of an ONM review...

Some great games let down by a clunky port. Worth it for fans of the films, mind.

Full review here

Life could always use more adventure, more wacky scientist sidekicks, dogs with awesome names and reluctant yet plucky heroes. And life could definitely use more time travel. If you feel the same way, a new Telltale promotion may interest you.

Back to the Future Episode 1 on the iPad is available for download right now, free of charge. Back in October, the iPad versions of Back to the Future received substantial updates addressing graphics and bug issues. All subsequent episodes have also had their price reduced in light of this new promotion, dropping episode 2 through 5 to $2.99 each for a limited time.

After first being released as a series of downloadable PC titles, developer Telltale Games' episodic Back to the Future adventures found a new home on the PlayStation Network. Now all five games have been bundled together into a single retail release for Nintendo's Wii, making for an incredible valu...

#nba2k12 I have a nephew who's a bit of a sneaker enthusiast. He's done the whole line-up-at-midnight-for-new-Dunks thing, despite the fact that he's got size 14 feet. He's also a gamer and I took him to see a demo of NBA 2K12 earlier this summer. And, while he was polite enough not to ask about the in-game footwear in this year's edition of 2K Sports' b-ball franchise, I know he was burning to inquire. There was smoke coming out of his ears. Well, Tony, this one's for you. More »

It's time to go back, Marty: Back to the Back to the Future. That is to say, if you were unsatisfied with how the time-traveling trilogy's adventure game adaptation performed on your iPad, it's time to give them a second shot. An update has launched for all five episodes of the game, improving performance, graphics and squashing a few bugs. Which is fortunate, because when traveling through time in a 30-year-old automobile, you want the experience to be as bug-free as possible.

Also, each episode of the series has been marked down to $2.99 until September 30, if, by chance, you'd like to dip your toes into the game's recently updated waters. Of course, all the diehard fans will lord over you their war stories from the pre-patch days, when Doc Brown had three arms, and Marty spoke in backwards Esperanto.

So, you want to buy us a pair of Back to the Future Nikes but can't afford them. While we appreciate the sentiment, our love, frankly, won't buy itself. Luckily, we'd also accept the Back to the Future Deluxe Edition that Telltale's showing off in the video above. This time. This time.

If your PC or Macintosh gaming rig isn't beefy enough to handle the raw, hardware-hogging power of the Back to the Future adventure games, you haven't been able to indulge in the free first episode Telltale's been offering for some time. As of today, however, you can: We bought you a new computer! Just look at its whirring engines and e-chips, all waiting for you to fill them with all the terabytes of gaming software you can get your hands on.

Punk'd! You were totally Punk'd, just then. We didn't buy you a computer. But you can download the entire first episode for free on your PS3 from now until September 27. Go grab it from the PlayStation Store before it disappears -- much like Punk'd has disappeared from the cultural hearts and minds of America.

God, we miss Punk'd.

Time traveling aficionados rejoice -- Back to the Future: The Game is coming to Wii this October. The game, which was formerly released episodically on PlayStation Network and PC, will sell for $19.99...

SAN RAFAEL, CA - Telltale Games, the leading independent digital publisher and developer of episodic interactive entertainment, today unveiled the details of two new packaged versions of its best-selling video game, Back to the Future: The Game. The new Collector's and Deluxe Editions offer fans a peek into the world of video game creation and the high-level production values that go into every Telltale game...

SAN RAFAEL, CA. - Telltale Games, the leading independent digital publisher and developer of episodic interactive entertainment, today announced it has signed an agreement to publish retail versions of their PlayStation Network available titles for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system. Th...

Taking a cue from the subject matter of Back to the Future: The Game, Telltale and Sony are going to begin selling the episodic adventure game in an old-fashioned manner: boxed copies in stores. Telltale has 'expanded' its publishing agreement with Sony to include retail games, the first of which will be Back to the Future. The disc version will be released this October, at the same $19.99 price point as the digital version.

The agreement isn't exclusive to Back to the Future; Telltale now has the option to publish retail versions of any of its PSN games. To date, that includes Puzzle Agent, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Tales of Monkey Island, and Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.

GamePro reports that Telltale has also signed on as a Wii retail publisher, also planning a retail version of Back to the Future this October for the same price. Previous Wii retail games from the developer, including Sam & Max seasons one and two, were published by other companies.

#telltalegames Michael J. Fox will lend his voice to the fifth and final chapter of Telltale Games' Back to the Future adventure, but we didn't know he'd be supplying the voices of two characters. Telltale's creative director, Dave Grossman, confirmed the dual appearance during a preview of Telltale's coming work at E3 2011. More »

Will there be a #2? I’ve no idea. But for now here’s a collection of some games I saw at E3 2011 and the accompanying thoughts. Below you can find The Old Republic, Telltale’s latest crop, and Codies’ F1 2011.

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During its E3 update, Telltale said it would be open to continuing the Back to the Future games beyond Episode 5, which is coming later this year. Design director Dave Grossman said that Universal has been a "wonderful partner," and if they and the fans of the game would support more episodes, then Telltale would be happy to make more...

#watchthis A.J. LoCasio's virtuoso Marty McFly has anchored Telltale Games' Back to the Future through its first four episodes, and will do so again in the fifth. That doesn't mean there's no room for the character's original actor. More »

For the final episode of the Back to the Future game series, Telltale Games has brought in an even better Michael J. Fox impersonator than series star A.J. LoCascio: Michael J. Fox himself. GameTrailers TV posted a brief clip of Episode 5: OUTATIME, in which Fox plays one of Marty McFly's ancestors. Here's what we know about the character so far: he has a truck.

To see the clip for yourself, skip time travel to about 5:40 in the latest episode of GTTV, which we've embedded after the break for your convenience. According to the show, OUTATIME will be out (on time) on June 21.

Telltale has set loose the third episode of Back to the Future: The Game on the App Store, giving iPad owners looking for their next fix of Marty McFly adventures a $6.99 bit of relief. In this latest episode, Marty finds himself stranded in an alternate version of the '80s.

The biggest change: the apparent lord of all, "First Citizen Brown," pictured above. He looks like he's never taken guff in his entire life.

If you've been waiting for the promised release of the fourth installment in Telltale's episodic Back to the Future games, you can officially put your DeLorean into park -- time travel's no longer required to arrive at a launch date. Episode 4, subtitled Double Visions, is set to unlock today on PC and Mac for folks who've pre-purchased the five-part series.

This time around, Marty will be responsible for fixing the altered timeline he created in the last episode, Citizen Brown. We're not sure exactly how he's going to go about doing so, but we're willing to bet that anachronistic hijinks will be involved. Also, there's an outside chance for some monkeyshines.

If you've been waiting with bated breath on the next installment in the continuing adventures of Digital Marty and Digital Doc Brown, you'll be pleased to learn that you'll be able to exhale fairly soon. Telltale Games announced today on its Twitter account that Back to the Future's fourth episode, titled "Double Vision," will be released next week on PC and Mac.

In this installment, Marty must team up with Episode 3's First Citizen Brown to create "an epic invention so that he can prevent young Emmett Brown from making the worst mistake of his life." We're not really sure what that means, but we've certainly got our fingers crossed for a cameo by Foreigner.