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Famous games designer Tim Schafer has finally talked about the massive outpouring of love that was showcased by fans who donated a huge amount of money to fund the next game project coming from his own studio, Double Fine Productions.
Both Schafer and Double Fine have been all over the news in the recent week after ... |
14 February 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Video game developer Double Fine has managed to gather more than 1 million dollars (about 755,000 Euro) in a little over 24 hours for an adventure game project using the Kickstarter crowd funding website and it seems that other developers might be interested in using the same route to finance their own ideas. Speaki... |
14 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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The gaming industry today isn’t in the best of situations, as more and more sequels are being released while publishers are less willing to invest in new games that don’t have any sort of multiplayer or at least an online component.Lots of gamers have complained about these worrying trends, saying that ev... |
11 February 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Kickstarter has been making waves for the past couple of years or so, but it is now living one of its biggest days yet. The service enables creators, which can mean pretty much anything, to seek funding for their projects from the people that would become their customers.In the past, it has been used to fund independ... |
11 February 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Double Fine Productions, the independent game developer led by famous designer Tim Schafer, has now collected over $1.2 million (around €900,000) in funding through its campaign on website Kickstarter.
Schafer complained that big game publishers weren’t willing to invest in all-new intellectual properties... |
10 February 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Tim Schafer, the famous games designer behind classic adventure titles like Grim Fandango or Full Throttle, decided to seek out money for the next game made by his studio, Double Fine, by asking for donations on popular website Kickstarter. Fans quickly answered his call and, in less than 24 hours, more than $400,000... |
9 February 2012
07:17 GMT |
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Tim Schafer, the famous game designer behind cult classics like Grim Fandango or Full Throttle, as well as newer titles, like Costume Quest, Stacking or Iron Brigade, has revealed that, while coming up with new intellectual properties is easy, getting publishers to invest in them is extremely hard.
Lots of gamers, a... |
8 February 2012
03:25 GMT |
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The Kinect motion tracking system for the Xbox 360 home console has been a success for Microsoft when it comes to sales, but one leading video games developer believes that companies are still struggling with creating tailor-made experiences for it.
Tim Schafer, who is the leader of development at Double Fine, told ... |
1 February 2012
17:31 GMT |
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The organizers of the Game Developers Conference 2012 have announced that they have added two sessions to the schedule of the Main Conference, one of them from developers at Double Fine and another from Rocksteady.
The Double Fine talk is linked to the Design track of GDC and will be called “Fun for Everyone: ... |
29 December 2011
02:28 GMT |
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After releasing Stacking onto the Xbox 360 at the beginning of the year, Double Fine Productions has now confirmed that the quirky Matryoshka-themed puzzler is coming to the PC platform early next year.Double Fine, after putting out some mixed received triple-A titles, has started focusing on lightweight downloadable... |
20 December 2011
15:51 GMT |
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After quite a lot of waiting and some legal disputes, Double Fine, the studio behind the Trenched action tower defense title, has confirmed that the game will be fully renamed into Iron Brigade and will be released in Europe on November 30.Double Fine released Trenched into critical and sales acclaim on the Xbox Live... |
18 November 2011
03:52 GMT |
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Video game developer Double Fine has announced that the next downloadable content package for their robot powered Iron Brigade, which was known as Trenched on launch, will be called Rise of the Martian Bear.As the name implies it will involve combat bears and a move of the action to the planet of Mars.There will be f... |
18 October 2011
09:48 GMT |
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Double Fine, the company behind the recent Trenched downloadable title on the Xbox Live Arcade, has announced that the game will be renamed into Iron Brigade all around the world, not just in Europe, where it's going to be released later this fall, alongside a fresh downloadable add-on.Trenched is a stylized hyb... |
13 September 2011
03:16 GMT |
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Video game publisher Microsoft has announced that it will be publishing the Double Fine developed Trenched title on the European market under the name Iron Brigade in order to avoid a conflict with a company that creates board games.Microsoft says that the new Iron Brigade name will be applied globally in order to el... |
18 August 2011
05:05 GMT |
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Video game developer Double Fine Productions have now gotten back the rights to Psychonauts, its hit adventure and platforming video game launched during 2005, and will apparently soon get revenue from continuing sales of the game, which is offered on a number of digital distribution services.Anna Kipnis, who is a se... |
15 June 2011
13:41 GMT |
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The newest game coming from Double Fine Productions, the studio of famous games designer Tim Schafer and, more recently, Ron Gilbert, has just been announced in the form of Trenched.
Double Fine has been striking gold since it focused on releasing lightweight downloadable games, with its two previous games, Costum... |
7 March 2011
02:35 GMT |
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Double Fine, the studio behind the more recent Costume Quest or Stacking downloadable games, is working on a brand new title, which will be based on the popular Sesame Street TV show and is going to support the Kinect motion sensor.
Double Fine Productions, the studio led by famous games designer Tim Schafer, who ... |
17 February 2011
15:21 GMT |
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The gaming industry is seemingly running out of ideas, especially when it comes to ones for blockbuster, triple-A releases, so that's why quite a lot of talented independent developers are trying their hands at downloadable games.
Double Fine is one such studio, who, after the somewhat lackluster Brutal Legen... |
17 February 2011
05:55 GMT |
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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 com... |
16 February 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Double Fine, after releasing the somewhat mixed received Brutal Legend, has concentrated its efforts on downloadable arcade titles, with the most recent one being Stacking, a rather unique title focused on Russian nesting dolls or matryoshka, as they're also known.
Double Fine made a name for itself by thi... |
11 February 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Tim Schafer, the leader of development studio Double Fine, believes that the games he creates are not going to arrive on the PC anytime soon because of the lack of profit to be made for the publishers who make the decision about gaming platforms.Writing on the official company website in a Question and Answer section... |
29 November 2010
02:21 GMT |
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Developer Double Fine, best known for being led by Tim Schafer and for creating both Brutal Legend and Costume Quest, has announced that its next title will be called Stacking and will be based around Russian matryoshka dolls, allowing the gamer to use stacking mechanics to progress through the experience.The publish... |
24 November 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Tim Schafer, one of the most popular game designers in the industry, has just admitted in a recent interview that he would love and is ready to create Psychonauts 2, a sequel to one of the most interesting titles from back in the day.Schafer, who now leads his own company, Double Fine Productions, has worked on popul... |
15 November 2010
03:07 GMT |
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Two of the most sacred names in the game design business, Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert, have been reunited, with the latter officially being employed by Schafer's own studio, Double Fine Productions.The two designers have worked together before, at LucasArts, and were responsible for the critically acclaimed Secr... |
28 September 2010
17:21 GMT |
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THQ has announced that it will be publishing two of the four downloadable titles Double Fine, the studio behind last year's Brütal Legend, is working on. The first of these is called Costume Quest and it is an adventure role playing game.According to 1up.com, the partnership between Double Fine and THQ incl... |
11 August 2010
05:32 GMT |
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Brutal Legend has been released for some time now and every gamer that picked it up finished the single player element and experienced some of the strategic minded multiplayer is probably wondering whether the developers are planning to release any new content for the game or whether it's a good candidate for se... |
7 December 2009
18:11 GMT |
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There are certainly many video games set to arrive this fall, and, even though their numbers slightly decreased after some high-end delays, there will be plenty of titles gamers will be able to choose from and entertain themselves. One of the few new properties coming in October will be Double Fine's Brutal Leg... |
26 August 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Brutal Legend is one of the biggest new titles to appear this fall, right before the winter holiday season. It is also one of the few new properties to have the courage to take on high-end sequels like Uncharted 2 or Modern Warfare 2, which are also due to appear during this season and which will definitely make a lo... |
10 August 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Brutal Legend is one of the most promising new titles to appear at the end of the year and is also one of the few new franchises to hit before the winter holiday season. But it was also quite close to missing its release month as Activision took its developer, Double Fine, and its new publisher, EA, to court.For thos... |
7 August 2009
04:02 GMT |
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Brutal Legend is one of the most interesting games to appear at the end of this year and one of the very few that aren't sequels and which are based on a more unusual premise in terms of story and design. Created by famous designer Tim Schafer, it will tell the story of a heavy-metal odyssey in which symbols of ... |
6 August 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Brutal Legend is one of the biggest new projects coming out this fall, guaranteeing to take players on a heavy metal-themed ride through a thrilling land of fantasy. Set to feature rock stars like Jack Black, Ozzy Osbourne or Lemmy, the game will definitely make a nice sum of money for Double Fine, its developer, and... |
31 July 2009
03:53 GMT |
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Brutal Legend is one of the most interesting titles to appear this fall season, and one of the few new properties to still be scheduled during that particular busy period of the year. Set to tell the story of roadie Eddie Riggs and his epic saga through a fantasy land based on heavy metal motives, the title's ma... |
24 July 2009
12:41 GMT |
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During this fall season, a lot of great blockbuster titles will appear and will try to capture the attention of gamers. One of the most interesting ones is Brutal Legend, which is currently being developed by Double Fine and will be published by Electronic Arts. But, as many of you know, there has been a lot of deba... |
23 July 2009
15:11 GMT |
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When Brutal Legend was unveiled and detailed, a lot of rumors indicated that a Nintendo Wii version of the game was in development, alongside those aimed at the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony, but that the developers from Double Fine were not talking about it because they were concerned about... |
2 July 2009
18:21 GMT |
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The fall of this year holds the release dates for quite a lot of high-quality titles, from the likes of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves to Modern Warfare 2 or Guitar Hero 5. Among them, one of the most interesting, and which isn't a sequel, is the Double Fine-developed and EA-published Brutal Legend. Set to take pla... |
29 June 2009
02:19 GMT |
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In a move that will make a lot of people quite resentful to it, Activision has decided to make a complaint against Double Fine Studios and Electronic Arts over the upcoming Brutal Legend action adventure game. According to the complaint, it seems that after giving Double Fine 15 million dollars in order to complete B... |
5 June 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The gaming industry isn't very fair sometimes, as there have been quite a lot of games that gained critical acclaim but didn't really excel in terms of retail sales. Last year, gamers forgot many new, high-quality titles, preferring sequels of poorer quality instead during the holiday season. Yesterday we ... |
8 April 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Tim Schafer is one of the most influential game designers in the whole industry. He pioneered storytelling and out of the box thinking, producing some of the most acclaimed titles in the industry. But even though games like Grim Fandango or Psychonauts were well received by critics and reviewers, in terms of ret... |
7 April 2009
03:09 GMT |
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In the gaming industry, some people evolved from just game creators and shaped the whole branch of entertainment with their unique ideas and interesting concept about video games and life in general. One such man is Tim Schafer, the creator behind titles such as Psychonauts or Grim Fandango, who currently has under p... |
1 April 2009
11:21 GMT |
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Music games are definitely the latest trend in the gaming industry nowadays as a lot of music fans are getting more and more interested in video games, thus opening a big market for companies to profit from. While fully-fledged games, like Guitar Hero or Rock Band are reaping the profits the most, other titles, which... |
16 February 2009
13:31 GMT |
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