PlayStation hires Double Fine vet Greg Rice to oversee indie relationships
Sony Interactive Entertainment has made a major hire to ensure PlayStation indie support remains strong. The company has brought in Greg Rice, who worked...
How Microsoft showed up at E3, locked and loaded for games, a new console, and the cloud
Matt Booty, the head of Xbox Game Studios, may have overdone it when he started going shopping for game studios. The company showed up...
Microsoft adds Double Fine to its Xbox Game Studios stable
Microsoft announced that it now owns Double Fine, the studio behind of games like Psychonauts, Broken Age, and Costume Quest. The Xbox publisher made...
Double Fine and Bandai Namco aren’t ending the world when Rad launches August 20
Developer Double Fine and publisher Bandai Namco announced today that Rad will launch on August 20 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC....
Tim Schafer interview: Psychonauts 2, crowdfunding’s future, and staying nimble
Tim Schafer is the game industry’s favorite silly man. He hosted the awards ceremonies at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), cracking jokes about Trump and...
Gang Beasts brawls its way out of Early Access on December 12
Gang Beasts is a delightfully goofy multiplayer brawler set in the colorful metropolis Beef City. Indie developer Boneloaf and publisher Double Fine Productions released...
YouTube culture is turning kids against art games
My game “Everything is going to be OK” was included in Double Fine’s Day of the Devs. Yay! I’m happy to get publicity for...
Double Fine unveils 70-game lineup for Day of the Devs indie festival
Double Fine’s fifth annual Day of the Devs indie games festival is coming up. It’s a one-day free event from 1 p.m. to 8...
Gameheads’ second annual showcase shows off the work of Oakland’s budding game devs
Gameheads is going back to school to solve the game industry’s diversity problem. It’s a year-round program based in Oakland, California, that teaches development...
Why Pay Day 2 game publisher Starbreeze made its crazy dive into VR hardware
Sweden’s Starbreeze Studios made its name as the publisher of games such as Pay Day, Pay Day 2, Dead by Daylight, Brothers: A Tale...