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The next season of Sam & Max adventure games starts this week, and in the Kidzworld gaming news post I mentioned that the company that makes Sam & Max, Telltale, has a ton of hilarious adventure games you can play.

• Tales of Monkey Island - actually sequels to a much older series of also hilarious adventure games involving pirates.
• Sam & Max – Dog and rabbit team up as freelance police. Regular police have a hard enough job, as it is.
• Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures – Great British humour, based on the claymation series of the same name. The dog, Gromit, never talks, but he gets more laughs than anybody on facial expressions alone.
• Bone – Based on Jeff Smith’s series of graphic novels.
• Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People – Strong Bad, from the online series called “Homestar Runner,” faces problems in the everyday life of a… Mexican wrestler-type guy?

This week’s gaming news post covered Cave Story for the Wii, an independent game that’s recently hit it big. A lot of indie games are awesome like Cave Story, and even free to download or play online! Here are a few free indie games that are just as good as a lot of regular games.

• Spelunky – Maybe the best free game ever made. You explore randomly generated caves for treasure and adventure, and the game just never gets old. I could play this until the end of time.
• Knytt – Explore a new world with sweet platformer gameplay. Give it some time to grow on you.
• RunMan: Race Around the World – It’s been described as “what an even better Sonic game would be like.” That’s some high praise, there.
• Dino Run – Escape the apocalypse! Also, dinosaurs!

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! — A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, mentioned in this week’s gaming news post, is another sort of independent game with an extremely eye-catching title. In the game, you go skydiving off of skyscrapers, trying to go through rings and stuff to get extra points. You can get it cheap off of Steam (game download program that comes with Valve titles like Half-Life, but you can download it on your own) before it comes out, I’ve played the demo, and it’s really fun. Don’t expect it to be realistic or anything, though.