EA Partners, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. has teamed up with leading independent developer Hothead Games to arrive at an exclusive publishing agreement that will bring DeathSpank to both the Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network sometime later this year. DeathSpank was developed under the vision of The Secret of Monkey Island creator and industry icon Ron Gilbert, where gamers will experience a story filled with Gilbert’s unique humor and wit with classic and addictive action RPG gameplay. It is meant to be engrossingly fun as well as hysterically side splitting, and hopefully this will introduce some laughs into an otherwise mundane world.

The game casts players in the role DeathSpank, the Hero to the Downtrodden, a Vanquisher of Evil and Defender of Justice as he fulfills his life-long destiny and searches for a mysterious and magical item only known as “The Artifact”. Along the way he’ll rescue a few Orphans, defeat a local tyrant and tumble headlong into the even deeper mystery surrounding the legendary Thongs of Virtue in an epic adventure game that includes collecting loot, crazy puzzle solving, witty dialogue, collecting loot, over-the-top animations, fun, accessible action combat, and of course, collecting loot.

We still have no idea as to how much the download will cost, but we’re pretty sure it won’t break the bank and you will still have more than enough left over to handle your regular game purchases throughout the month. Would be interesting to see whether this will spark off a pop culture phenomenon in the long run or not, and whether Internet memes will spawn from here.

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