Double Fine Productions, the studio behind cheery games together with Psychonauts and Brutal Legend, have been purchased up by Microsoft. They say they’ll proceed to make these Double Fine games in that Double Fine manner, which I suppose is what everybody says after their enterprise is acquired.
“Being independent for almost 20 years has given Double Fine a distinct identity and a unique spirit that goes really deep here, and no one can change that,” Schafer mentioned in a video launched after the on-stage announcement. “And nobody wants to. Microsoft wants us for who we are and the kind of games we’re already making.”
He says that Psychonauts 2 continues to be coming to non-Microsoft platforms, so backers shouldn’t fear, however in future Double Fine will give attention to Xbox and PC. He provides that they’ve a number of games already within the pipeline, they usually’ll nonetheless be doing their Amnesia Fortnight game jams the place they experiment with new concepts.
Double Fine will seemingly respect the additional monetary safety. They’ve appeared in a precarious monetary state of affairs for years, counting on crowdfunding campaigns to get their previous few games rolling and even ‘releasing’ Spacebase DF-9 unfinished. Heck, it goes all the way in which again to the fiasco over Brutal Legend needing to discover a new writer after Activision dropped it.
“The thought of being able to develop [new game ideas] without dragging them all over the world pitching them to every publisher that exists is really nice to think about,” Schafer mentioned.
See our E3 2019 tag for the remainder of our protection from the games present. Brendy and Matt are on the market in Los Angeles, enjoying games and taking names. They’re additionally assuming the roles of the Cheerer and the Jeerer to liveblog the large announcement occasions, hitting EA and Microsoft to date.
