Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island legend, Ron Gilbert, is almost ready to giving you the spanking of a life-time, a DeathSpanking if you will.

Gilbert's DeathSpank has been in development by the designer for the better part of the last six years, and last year it was announced Hothead Games would help push it out the door, with further help from EA. All of this means that six years of work will coalesce into a digital download for Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network mid July, offering players a game that has been described as "Monkey Island meets Diablo". Can't go wrong there.

We have three new screens of the game in action as well as some co-op art, along with all the other bits and pieces available on our game page. I personally can't wait for this.