From his "If I Made Another Monkey Island" post quoted in the ad: > All the games after Monkey Island 2 don't exist in my Monkey Island universe. ...That does

From his "If I Made Another Monkey Island" post quoted in the ad: > All the games after Monkey Island 2 don't exist in my Monkey Island universe. ...That doesn't mean I won't steal some good ideas or characters from other games. I'm not above that. So it can be both! Monkey Island 3 is no longer canon (which is a shame because it's fantastic), but also Murray can be upgraded into the canon universe anyway (TV Tropes would probably consider this an example of a "Canon Immigrant").