The main voice cast and composer of LucasArts' Grim Fandango reunited last night during E3 for a live performance of scenes and songs from the splendid adventure game. The game turns 20 this year, and after all this time it's just lovely to see them having a lark together, reading through scenes, gabbing about the game, and jamming (and singing!) those top tunes. Watch the…
You're about to watch some humans go about their business as they get followed around by adorable tiny animals, occasionally stopping to pet them or dance with them. Don't be fooled. Those animals are out for blood - or at the very least indentured interior design work. That's the subtext I'm picking up: Ooblets is an upcoming game that's ostensibly about farming crops and looking…
Their own output might be spottier than a ladybird farm, but Double Fine most certainly have an eye for a great concept, both in their self-made games and the select few they publish. Gang Beasts, Mountain, Everything, Thoth and the upcoming Ooblets and Knights and Bikes all came up through the Double Fine Presents programme, and joining that number is the cute-but-haunting Kids. It's an…
Sure, you've jacked into someone's mind to wander through their memories, but have you jacked into someone's mind while jacked into cyberspace? You can now do just that in Psychonauts In The Rhombus Of Ruin. Double Fine's VR spin-off from peachy physic platformer Psychonauts arrived on PC last night, supporting Rift and Vive cybergoggles, following its debut on PlayStation VR in February 2017. It's set…
You're already attending this year's EGX Rezzed, of course. But if you haven't yet booked your ticket to That London so you can play all them lovely games, here's a piece of news that should cause you to get on that, post-haste. Double Fine's Tim Schafer - he of the simian islands and the tentacular days - is going to headline the event, taking part…
Round up your chums for a spot of adorable ultraviolence, as the wonderful Gang Beasts has launched out of early access. Gang Beasts is a multiplayer arena fighting game where players will hurl each other off the tops of speeding trucks, out windows, and into industrial grinders, grabbing and grappling in physics-simulated fisticuffs. Pummel your pal into exhaustion, hoist them up, go to throw them…
Feature: Remake or rebreak
Adventure game remakes are common. But not everyone likes to see their old favourites revived. Mitch Kocen asked veteran point-and-clickmen Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer, among others, when they think it’s OK to remaster the classics Without intervention, every video game you have ever loved will eventually become unplayable. The technology that enables the next generation of games cripples the last. At some point, systems…
Brütal Legend, Double Fine’s heavy metal action-RTS hybrid, is completely free on the Humble Store. It was also free yesterday, so let’s pretend I told you about this 24 hours ago. Once you grab it, it's yours to keep. You’ve still got a day and change to pick it up, so get on it.
Psychonauts 2 [official site] has hit a big development milestone: first playable. This means that Double Fine have put together a fully playable area where the platforming, dialogue, art and exploration are all implemented, even if they're not in a finished state. And, importantly, it already looks quite fun.
As one of the last hoorah's of Humble's End of Summer Sale, the store is currently offering Tim Schafer's classic mind-entering platform game Psychonauts absolutely free.
You want to click on a thing that's interesting to read RIGHT NOW? This Clickuorice Allsort is a beautiful-looking confection in the form of the art direction document for Double Fine's head-swappy Metroidvania, Headlander! Writer and director, Lee Petty, lays out things like the game's influences, and why particular stylistic choices were made - the use of the colour spectrum to accompany progress through levels,…
Feature: Ideas generation
"I started feeling a little bogged down by the scope of [Brutal Legend]," says Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine. "It was really huge and I felt like the team had been doing it for a long time and had a long way to go yet. I felt like they needed a break." That break was Amnesia Fortnight, a two week game jam during which…
Feature: Bathos: The Game
I am a spruce beetle. I call to two other spruce beetles nearby and now I am all of them. I tell them to dance and they begin to skitter of their own volition, making concentric circles and infinity signs and all manner of patterns. Each time a circle fills at the top of the screen - the only visible UI element - I press…
Feature: Puttin' My Lips on That
Full Throttle Remastered [official site] is the return of perhaps the most under-appreciated of the classic 90s LucasArts adventures. Double Fine's remastering will hopefully go a long way to seeing it gain a reputation among a new generation. Here's wot I think:
Today I'm wearing my leather jacket and trying to convince Cara to bop me with a plank then toss me into a bin, celebrating the launch of Full Throttle Remastered [official site]. Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions have updated and re-released LucasArts' 1995 stonking adventure game, which Tim Tam led development on back in his LucasArts days. Parts of Full Throttle always niggled and annoyed…
This is a post with a very clever title! The last game featured in our RPS Cave of Wonders at Rezzed this week is Everything, David OReilly's gorgeous interactive nature simulation where you can skip up or down in scale to make discoveries and roam an entire universe. BUT! It's also a good point to remind you of everything that will be joining Everything in…
Everything [official site] is the new game from David OReilly, artist, director and creator of RPS's favourite Mountain. We've already heard whispers about Everything, notably that it is coming to PS4 before Windows and Mac. Now, along with a lengthy new trailer, the release date has been announced. It'll be coming to PS4 on March 21st and to Steam on April 21st. But what is…
The Polecats will ride again, with flash new jackets, on April 18th. That's the release date announced today for Full Throttle Remastered [official site], Double Fine's revamp of LucasArts' fan-flipping-tastic 1995 adventure game about futurebikers. After 22 years, it still has one of the finest openings in games.
Every now and then, in this vast hall of GIFs we call the internet, I see the mini-monsters and dancing townsfolk of Ooblets [official site] and it makes me feel good about life. It’s an as-yet-unreleased game of farming, raising creatures, and living among the townsfolk of ‘Hubton’. “It’s sort of like Harvest Moon meets Pokémon meets Animal Crossing meets the weird awkward people we…
You like rocks? I'll show you nice rocks. You like trees? I'll show you nice trees. You like squirrels? I'll show you nice squirrels. All these and more are in a new Psychonauts [official site] dev video showing an art test of a quarry environment. It's not a finished level, just Double Fine feeling out the game's style, but some pretty stuff is in there.…
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