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Under Microsoft, Double Fine has made its weirdest game yet—and this is only the beginning: 'We can take more risks'

The studio has "multiple new projects" in development, and Xbox GamePass is the key to its future.

PC Gamer

Stardew Valley becomes truly inescapable as it joins the September PlayStation Plus games lineup alongside an impeccable indie puzzler and one of the best platformers of the modern era

All killer, no filler in this month's PS Plus games

GamesRadar

Keeper is the ecological ‘fever dream’ where you play as – checks notes – a lighthouse

Double Fine’s latest is a whimsical action-adventure that takes inspiration from real-life biology as much as cult fantasy movies from the 1980s

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Keeper is quintessential Double Fine, a strange creative concept with a truly wondrous execution: "We wanted to make something that we could probably never have gotten signed and published"

Gamescom 2025 | Keeper is quickly becoming one of my most anticipated games of the year, even with Double Fine hesitant to show too much off in advance

GamesRadar

'I'm working on other stuff': Double Fine chief Tim Schafer squashes hopes for Psychonauts 3 any time soon

Schafer doubled down on Double Fine's pause on sequels for now.

PC Gamer

Xbox's Double Fine is working on "multiple games" in addition to Keeper, says studio head Tim Schafer — but none of them are Brutal Legend 2

During Gamescom 2025, Double Fine's Tim Schafer confirmed that the studio is working on multiple games in addition to the upcoming Keeper.

Windows Central

In honor of Ozzy Osbourne, Double Fine is giving its heavy metal action game Brutal Legend away for free for 666 minutes

The game features three Black Sabbath songs and three of Ozzy's solo tracks

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Brütal Legend is free in honor of Ozzy Osbourne, but only for 666 minutes

Double Fine's 2009 adventure is a fun way to celebrate heavy metal.

PC Gamer

RIP, Prince of Darkness: Ozzy Osbourne has died at age 76

The heavy metal singer had an extraordinary influence on music and popular culture, and appeared in 2009 Double Fine game Brütal Legend.

PC Gamer

7 upcoming day one Xbox Game Pass games I need to play yesterday — and I'm looking forward to even more

Xbox has already confirmed a ton of upcoming, day one additions to Xbox Game Pass, so here are 7 that I can't wait to play (but I'll have to anyways).

Windows Central

The 10 best games of Summer Game Fest 2025

Our favourite announcements and reveals from another whirlwind weekend.

PC Gamer

Double Fine's 'Keeper' Is a Magical Lighthouse Adventure Coming This Fall — And It's Absolutely Mesmerizing

Double Fine drops "Keeper," a walking lighthouse adventure launching Oct. 17. We have no "Psychonauts 3," but this surreal Xbox game is stealing the spotlight.

Player One

Double Fine announced its new game, and I'm so ready to play as a sentient lighthouse

From the studio that brought us Psychonauts and Grim Fandango comes a new adventure where you play as a moving lighthouse. It looks charming and strange.

Windows Central

Tired of words? Double Fine's next game is a 'story told without words' that stars a walking lighthouse and its pet bird

Keeper will be out in October.

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Xbox Games Showcase 2025 preview: The big games and developers to expect on Sunday's livestream

Forza, Call of Duty, Gears of War, Fable, and many more.

PC Gamer

Double Fine dev embarks on a quest to discover Full Throttle's true release date: 'Perhaps the best 30th birthday present I could give Full Throttle was a real birthday'

"Our official anniversary date was simply impossible."

GamesRadar

Super Mario 64, a forgotten Dreamcast JRPG, classic Jet Li films, and more all inspired Tim Schafer while working on Psychonauts

Everything from Final Fantasy 7 to the Nightmare Before Christmas played a part

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The Mind-Bending Masterpiece That's Been Secretly Influencing Games For 20 Years

How ‘Psychonauts’ inspired a generation of gamers and designers alike.

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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.

Windows Central

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.

GamesRadar

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?'"

Windows Central

"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.

GamesRadar

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

Metal Hammer

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

GamesRadar

"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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