Broken Age
Categories

Tim Schafer shows off Broken Age with voice-overs by Jack Black and Elijah Wood

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
  • Updated
  • 1 min

Tim Schafer, the chief executive of Double Fine Productions, showed off scenes from his upcoming adventure game Broken Age today for the first time. He also revealed that his company, rich from Kickstarter crowdfunding, has also hired Hollywood talent to do voice-overs for the title. Both Jack Black and Elijah Wood have contributed their voices to characters in the game.

Broken Age
Shay from Broken Age.

The announcement was made at the Spike TV VGX awards show, hosted by Joel McHale and Geoff Keighley.

Unlock premium content and VIP community perks with GB M A X! Join now to enjoy our free and premium perks. 

Join now →

Sign in to your account.

Written by

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.