Update: Developer Telltale Games was unable to confirm that a Wii edition of Sam & Max is in the works, though the company promises it is "actively pursuing" the possibility.

"While it's no secret that we want to bring Sam & Max to the Wii--and it is something we're actively pursuing--we don't have any official news right now," a company representative informed Shacknews. "When we're in a position to confirm that we'll be porting Sam & Max to the Wii, we'll make an announcement about it."

Original Story: Telltale Games' episodic point-and-click adventure series Sam & Max will soon appear on the Wii, according to publisher JoWooD.

A German press release issued by the company lists a Wii edition of Telltale's Sam & Max as one of its upcoming titles, further identifying the series as receiving the "Adventure of the Year" award from readers of foreign magazine PC Games.

JoWooD, which previously expressed its intent to pursue more console titles, published the retail version of Sam & Max: Season One ... Read more

Steve Purcell's long out of print comic collection Sam & Max: Surfin' the Highway will be available again later this year thanks to Sam & Max episodic adventure game developer Telltale Games. In celebration of the cult classic comic characters' twenty years of existence, Telltale will be reprinting the 1995 anthology, which collected most of the published Sam & Max comics. The 2007 edition will bring the book up to date, adding Sam & Max comics from the last 12 years, unpublished stories, artwork, and a new cover.

First publicly appearing in Purcell's 1987 underground comic "Monkeys Violating the Heavenly Temple," the Sam & Max characters are best known to gamers for LucasArts' 1993 adventure game Sam & Max Hit the... Read more