THQ Wants to Extend Double Fine Partnership

THQ wants to extend its recent partnership with Double Fine, the studio owned by famous games designer Tim Schafer, and release more titles from the popular company.

Double Fine's most recent full-pledged project, Brutal Legend, which was published by Electronic Arts, achieved relatively low sales, so the company reoriented itself to making a few lightweight, downloadable games.

As such, it partnered with THQ and released Costume Quest, last year, and Stacking, last week.

The unique titles innovated in quite a few areas, with Stacking especially generating unique hype because of its gameplay that focused on Russian nesting dolls.

THQ is quite thrilled with the partnership, as its core games boss, Danny Bilson, said on Twitter that, "Hope people are downloading Stacking like crazy. I want to make more games with Double Fine! Those folks are brilliant."

Stacking is also praised by THQ's casual games division, through the voice of Martin Good.

"Stacking looks and plays unlike any other downloadable game, and Double Fine's unique approach to the puzzle-game genre has been executed brilliantly," said Good, THQ's executive vice president of Kids, Family and Casual Games.

"Players of all skill levels will be able to enjoy finding creative solutions to the huge array of challenges in a game filled with the vivid imagination of Tim Schafer, Lee Petty and Double Fine."

Double Fine, as of yet, hasn't confirmed what its future titles will be, so we may expect other downloadable games or, perhaps, a full-pledged project, which will hit retail stores in the future, probably published by THQ.

In the meantime, both Costume Quest and Stacking are available for download on the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace.

Costume Quest takes an interesting approach to classic role-playing games, centering it around a group of children who dress up for Halloween, while Stacking tasks players with exploring a world of Russian dolls with unique powers that need to be stacked on top of each other to resolve special challenges.