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You Don't Know Jack coming January 25

by Ben Gilbert on Oct 28th 2010 1:40PM

Regardless of the game's title, we actually do know a little bit more this morning about You Don't Know Jack's triumphant return. THQ has confirmed the game will be heading to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii and DS on January 25, 2011. Unlike the recent GameStop listing, no mention is made of Kinect regarding the game on Xbox 360. We're still hoping against all odds that the game will ship with a full-size PC keyboard, replete with finger-worn keys and shoddily placed YDKJ stickers.

Unlike the Wii and DS versions, the PS3 and 360 games will support online multiplayer. Every version of the game will include "classic quiz modes" in "DisOrDat" and "Jack Attack," not to mention new modes like "Wrong Answer of the Game" wherein, presumably, the goal is to get questions wrong. We're especially glad to hear about that new mode, considering YDKJ losses are really our forte.

You Don't Know Jack

Source: THQ

Tags: ds, jellyvision, microsoft, nintendo, playstation, ps3, q1-2011, release-date, thq, wii, xbox, you-dont-know-jack

Reader Comments (32)

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I loved the original games. Day one purchase without a doubt. Can't wait.

I'd rather have 1vs100 back :(

@Jack Kevorkian I don't know what I'd choose. Both are awesome games.

@Mcmax3000 I say 1v100 only because it really added value to gold service. And it was a great game to play with friends.

I am all over this!

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

I'd like to see this as an XBLA title that's presented similarly to 1vs100 with options to win prizes. I'd be all over it at 800MS. At 1200MS, they need to have a good presentation, prizes, and a few DLC packs at no cost to really move some units.

@IRONSAM If the previous YDKJ games are any indication, I'd say there's enough content to warrant the $40 price tag that Gamestop currently has it listed at. Presentation is always top notch and their games are usually packed with a ton of questions.

@Mcmax3000 Plus they have a hefty back-catalogue from which to pull classic questions from (if they choose to do so)

@IRONSAM - this is a strong enough title to be successful at $40. Any game would sell more if it was only 800ms pts. $40 is fair for this title with a decently huge set of questions.

@silverwolf761 I was wondering how much of their back catalog would get pulled into this update. While an all-new You Don't Know Jack with all new questions would gladly be welcome, it has been a while since they've released anything at all. They do have 19 disks and a whole lot of netshows to pull from.

Wait... are those physical discs I see? Surely nothing in Jack requires anything beyond what an online download would handle.

I'm just really tired of swapping discs in my PS3 - especially when Fallout New Vegas is so comfortable in there.

@diamondsw The full voice overs for all of the questions are likely pretty large. I'm sure it could be done as a downloadable title but it would probably be pretty big.

@Mcmax3000 File size wouldn't be that big. Back in the day, they released YDKJ XXL on a CD with 2000 questions. So that would have been 700 MB max. XBLA allows games to be up to 2 GB in size I believe...

@Ghoti not sure if you know this, but audio quality has drastically changed since YDKJ XXL...

@bennyfuyou Not sure if you know this, but so have compression algorithms

Cookie please!

Also, without a keyboard, we lose the magic that used to occur when you typed an obscenity in as your name or a question answer. Man, that was golden.

I played this game so much on PS1. It will be great to have the ability to get new questions. I will gladly pay for that DLC.

Man, so many great college dorm memories with a bunch of people gathered around a Pentium 1 and 15" monitor laughing, drinking and playing Jack. I'm going to have to get this.

I'm sorry, but I dont know Jack about this series.

Cookie: It's like I always say, Player One, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose as long as you get to play with yourself. Now get the hell away from the computer and go make some friends!

Awesome! Just awesome.

Yep. This is certainly full of win. I remember finding YDKJ4 in a local thrift shop once.

@WiNGSPANTT from TopTierTacticsco
Yep. Check the soundbite found in here:
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/06/22/you-dont-know-jack-is-coming-back/

Also as a friend pointed out:
http://www.youdontknowjack.com/node/299

Git yer fix!

XBLA or retail?

Do I get My Question Four back?

And how are they going to do Gibberish Questions with game controllers? Please tell me they're not leaving those out.

It's time for a:
SNICKPLISS TESTRUM
(gong)
GIBBERISH QUESTION

Retail release? I'll probably still pick it up. PS3 & DS versions.

I hope they can pull Cookie away from narrating Whacked-Out-Sports to reprise his role as the best quiz show announcer ever!

Awesome news.

For those commenters moaning about 1vs100 - you clearly haven't played YDKJ. This makes 1vs100 as boring as a game of tic-tac-toe. Really! ...and in multi-player, this is going to be incredible fun with friends across live. 1vs.100 suffered from the robo-host chick - why couldn't Chris Cashman have read the questions for at least the hosted shows? And Chris isn't nearly as entertaining as Cookie as a host!

I've been hoping YDKJ would get a second life. Was actually thinking about pulling out the old PS1 discs a while back or seeing if I could get the PC version to run.

I know all about jack!

...wait wut.

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