Tagged ‘Tim Schafer’

Ex-LucasArts king Tim Schafer has managed to raise over $1 million for his company’s next project in 24 hours. Double Fine games has sourced all this cash from fans, via crowd-sourced funding website Kickstarter.

There’s a lot of buzz that this could change the gaming world for good, but you have to remember that Schafer’s got a billion fans around the world and is generally a gaming industry god. If any other companies are going to look to replicate Double Fine’s success, they’re going to need something special.

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Just the other day we brought you word that Tim Schafer, the man behind some of the adventure gaming genre’s finest, is close to getting a sequel to Psychonauts funded by unusual means. Now he’s at it again, pitching an adventure game to it’s next investor: you. Read more

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The weirdest news of the day by far, this, but also probably the best. The cult classic Tim Schafer game Psychonauts could be about to get a hugely overdue sequel thanks to an unlikely source. Read more

brutal_legend_recordHundreds of fans got together last weekend to set a new Guinness World Record, all in the name of EA’s upcoming new metal-themed game, Brutal Legend. 440 long-haired, sweaty revellers played air guitar simultaneously during the 2009 Download festival and scored some fresh publicity for the game, which is due out in October. Or rather, Rocktober.

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