Mac gaming fans have one less reason to be envious of their PC-using brothers & sisters, now that Telltale Games has made the official announcement that the episodic Sam & Max is coming with a third season entitled The Devil’s Playhouse -- and it will be available on the PC, Playstation 3 and yes, even the Mac.

Sam's a six-foot tall canine shamus with a hunger for justice. Max is a hyperkinetic rabbity-thing with an oversized Luger and a taste for violence. Together they're Sam & Max, freelance police, ridding the streets of bottom-feeding sludge, one dastardly miscreant at a time.

 

The popular episodic game comes courtesy of publisher Telltale Games, who made the announcement today at GDC. On the heels of the first two popular seasons of Sam & Max comes the good news that the third season, entitled The Devil’s Playhouse, will also be coming to the Mac at long last, and the game is virtually identical across all three platforms.

In The Devil's Playhouse, Sam and Max face a mysterious otherworldly power for controlling matter and space that calls to the strongest and strangest who might wield it -- intergalactic warlords and eldritch gods, under-dwellers and scholars of the arcane. It's Sam's and Max's biggest case yet!

For those of you new to episodic gaming, Telltale’s niche is having the games play out over a series of interconnected episodes, each one building on the next. This approach makes their games more like your favorite TV shows or comic books, with new installments being made available on a regular basis. Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse will be no different, available in five monthly episodes -- once the final episode is released, you’ll then own the full game (or “full season,” as Telltale calls it).

The Devil’s Playhouse marks the debut of Sam & Max on both the Mac and Playstation 3, with the first episode arriving on April 15. If you pre-order the series for either Mac or PC now, you’ll get a free game episode from another Telltale series as a bonus, along with membership in the Freelance Police Elite Forces, which includes forum access to the creators of the series. A disc version of the game will also be made available when the season is completed.

Purchase all five mystery-packed episodes of The Devil’s Playhouse for only $34.95 by hitting up the Telltale Games website today.