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Fallout and Skyrim show us that talented developers make great games when you leave them alone

Attention is the creativity-killer.

PC Gamer

With Astro Bot winning Game of the Year, Microsoft and Xbox need to start reinvesting in their platforming games

Xbox doesn't really currently have an "all-ages" platformer like Astro Bot, but it could revive a character from one of its many classic series.

Windows Central

Obsidian's Josh Sawyer thought Pillars of Eternity's Kickstarter had a 50% chance of failing, only for the RPG to be fully funded within 27 hours

"Other people at the studio were also like 'are we really not going to do this?'"

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"It's certainly a universe many folks here at the studio wonder about returning to," says Double Fine Productions when asked about making a sequel to the cult classic Brütal Legend

Double Fine Productions celebrates the 15th anniversary of it's cult-classic action-strategy game, Brütal Legend, by looking back on its history and answering fans questions about plans for a potential sequel.

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Tim Schafer wanted to "compete" with classic D&D CRPGs like Icewind Dale by cranking up the fantasy in Brutal Legend: "Let's really exaggerate it"

Double Fine's open-world genre-blender came from two unlikely sources

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Brütal Legend developer “torn” about making sequel to Jack Black’s cult metal video game

Tim Schafer of Double Fine Productions is conflicted on how to approach a second Brütal Legend title, given how the original controversially mixed genres

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"People ask about Brutal Legend 2 all the time and I'm torn about that" - Tim Schafer says he'd expand on the 15-year-old game's RTS bits for a potential sequel

Double Fine looks back at the genre-blending open-world game

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Amid Astro Bot hype, Psychonauts studio shoots down speculation that it's reviving dormant Xbox platformers like Crash or Banjo: "We want to make our games"

Double Fine is still, thankfully, working on its own ideas

GamesRadar

Double Fine is making several "weird" games that "could never get accepted by a publisher," though some developers leave the door open for Psychonauts 3

The studio returns to smaller projects after Psychonauts 2 left some developers burned out

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A surprise final episode of the Psychonauts 2 documentary series has dropped more than a year after its initial release

The retrospective on Psychonauts 2 and its development is a lot more melancholy than you might expect.

PC Gamer

Psychonauts 2 was designed as the "complete opposite" of an FPS, because Tim Schafer wanted players to leave levels in a better condition than they found them

Double Fine co-founder Tim Schafer looked to action games and shooters when planning out Psychonauts 2's levels

GamesRadar

From the Xbox Games Showcase I'm hoping for a little less conversation and a little more action, please

Xbox has dozens of video games in development and now's the time to clarify its release schedule for the next few years

GamesRadar

As Xbox shutters studios, community concern mounts for the teams behind Doom, Avowed, Hellblade, and more

They "all seem unsafe now"

GamesRadar

Indie showcase Day of the Devs becomes fully independent, announcing fundraiser for future shows

Day of the Devs has become fully independent and announced a fundraiser for future shows.

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PlayStation Executive Tells Us How The Best Indie Games Are Judged

Day of the Devs partnered with The Game Awards for the first time in its history this year. Curator Greg Rice shares how the event remains a safe space for all.

Windows Central

"It's kind of like stepping into Willy Wonka's chocolate factory with Willy Wonka," says Norman Reedus in the new Kojima documentary coming to Disney+

If you can't get enough of Kojima from his bi-annual appearances at Summer Game Fest and the Game Awards, you can now learn all about him through this Disney+ documentary.

PC Gamer

Tim Schafer and Double Fine celebrate 25 years of Grim Fandango and thank fans for their memories: 'I'll keep them next to where my heart used to be!'

"Grim was a bright flash in the adventure game pan right before the genre went into an extended hibernation."

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The Steam Summer Sale is live! Here are five must-play games on Mac with awesome discounts

The Steam Summer Sale is here, and there are amazing games with fantastic discounts to play on Mac.

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Crowdfunding website Fig is no more

The platform, which funded games like Psychonauts 2 and Phoenix Point, went offline yesterday.

GamesRadar

Psychonauts dev explains how they got in the credits of a Star Wars game despite never actually working on it

Tim Schafer is credited as having "never actively tried to sabotage" Star Wars Racer

Inverse

You Need to Play the Best '90s Time-Travel Adventure on Xbox Game Pass ASAP

Before Double Fine even existed, some of its studio bigwigs worked on this point-and-click cult classic.

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