The first episode in Telltale Games' Jurassic Park: The Game, set after the events of the original Steven Spielberg film, was supposed to arrive later this month. Instead, Telltale's pushing it back until this fall.

"The game's mechanics and storytelling have come together in such a way that we see great potential, so much so that we feel we can push these elements to the next level if we spend some extra time working on them," said CEO Dan Connors in a statement. "It is because of this that we are delaying Jurassic Park: The Game on PC to ensure PC players get the best possible gaming experience."

One positive consequence of the move is all platforms will end up receiving at least the first episode simultaneously, ala Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network (which we expect should be up then).

Zing, right? Sigh. Okay, sorry. 

The first episode in Telltale Games' Jurassic Park: The Game, set after the events of the original Steven Spielberg film, was supposed to arrive later this month. Instead, Telltale's pushing it back until this fall.

"The game's mechanics and storytelling have come together in such a way that we see great potential, so much so that we feel we can push these elements to the next level if we spend some extra time working on them," said CEO Dan Connors in a statement. "It is because of this that we are delaying Jurassic Park: The Game on PC to ensure PC players get the best possible gaming experience."

One positive consequence of the move is all platforms will end up receiving at least the first episode simultaneously, ala Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network (which we expect should be up then).

Zing, right? Sigh. Okay, sorry. 

Roar

Clever Telltale.

Nice

Cool of em

Thats ok, I was looking forward to playing this but not something  I can't wait for.

See PR Spin.

That game looked like trash. It was probably in their best interest to do this.

Because of this news I ended up pre-ordering the first episode of Hector and so I can get Puzzle Agent for free.

A refund and a free game seem like a fair trade for this.

I'm trying to decide if I want to use my voucher on Jurassic Park or another game while I wait.

I'm not holding onto my butt that long.

Needs it based on the Quick Look.  When you gotta delay, you gotta delay.

This game is going to be nothing but Quick-Time Event garbage anyways. Move along. Nothing to see here.

Clever girls... If there are any at Telltale.

I'm repurchasing Jurassic Park with my refund. So it just became free. So awesome! And now I'm going to go buy puzzle agent anyways.

As others have mentioned, this was probably necessary - especially considering that quick look. Those quick time events were just too janky. 

For those unsure what to do with your free token, might I suggest Puzzle Agent? That game was pretty amazing. What with PA2 coming this summer, I hope that we get a review of it from GB. The first was a bit unprecedented, a complete unknown. Now that it's proven (at least to me) to be an amazingly vivid world with great voice acting and crazy mysticism, I want to see a bit more coverage of it across the board. Having played only a few adventure games in my day, I would be extremely happy to see the Puzzle Agent series become the Adventure Island of our day.

Good on them. The game looks extremely janky.

Stop with the Zing-ing guys, it was never funny. Nice of them to be so generous most companies just say "Put it out late." and ignore fans.

I think this is good for the game to be honest. During the quicklook roadshow, I noticed that the transitions between button presses and scene fluidity was a bit janky. That might be a small complaint to some, but for a game which they're touting as like Heavy Rain, you might want to get that tightened up.

Well, I won Jurassic Park. And I have all of the other TT games that I want. So...I'm going to use my refund to buy Jurassic Park. Hooray for refunds!

Oh c'mon, drop the zinging. Telltale's a small company aiming for a niche audience and clearly filled by people who do their thing because they dig it. Considering the sales they have, it's really generous to offer something in return for the delay.

Well that sucks. I was really looking forward to the game. I'm curious to know how much of that whole "to make the PC one better" crap was real, and how much of it was they just wanted to hold it back for the console gamers. Can't have PC getting a game first after all!

I am totally fine with this. I have complete faith that these guys know what they are doing. 

" Oh c'mon, drop the zinging. Telltale's a small company aiming for a niche audience and clearly filled by people who do their thing because they dig it. Considering the sales they have, it's really generous to offer something in return for the delay."

Buy Poker Night. It's probably the funniest game I've ever played, plus free TF2 items!

I truthfully still have to watch Jurassic Park in full to be able to judge whether it even needs a video game adaption or not...

" Buy Poker Night. It's probably the funniest game I've ever played, plus free TF2 items!

I truthfully still have to watch Jurassic Park in full to be able to judge whether it even needs a video game adaption or not... "

I hope they fix the camera angles -- that was the reason i stopped played back to the future.

" Stop with the Zing-ing guys, it was never funny. Nice of them to be so generous most companies just say "Put it out late." and ignore fans. "

Personally, I just wonder why they waited until today, less than a week before April is over, to announce the push back. Did they really just realize now that the game needed to be pushed back several months? I'm not  necessarily saying that shenanigans are afoot, but I am curious about why they waited this late to announce this, let alone when they actually made the decision and handed it off to the PR guys.

this sucks!

me too pattycake, I want the blu-ray out asap as well.  Oh well, whats up with the monkey island series? any news? grim fandango question marks?

It looked like it needed the delay judging by that QL. Good thing they realized that, too.

Curious who would take the refund.

A delayed game never caused me to cancel a preorder or what not.

Heck i had a twilight princess pre order for years.

" Well that sucks. I was really looking forward to the game. I'm curious to know how much of that whole "to make the PC one better" crap was real, and how much of it was they just wanted to hold it back for the console gamers. Can't have PC getting a game first after all!

At least they are doing good by the customers any way. Well, better then most companies would have treated it. I never got around to buying it so sadly I miss out on the free game, but I honestly don't think there is another tell tale game that interests me anyway.

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well at least they are giving something back to people!

that's mighty nice of telltale if you ask me

The game looked fun, but also looked like it lacked polish, so I support this. Also real cool of them to offer refunds and a game like that.

That's the way you make good. Telltale's some good peeps... and hopefully the game will be good too.

They need that extra time to perfect their butt-holding technology.