Tag: Double Fine
News Limited Run Brings Double Fine's Phenomenal PsychOdyssey Documentary to Blu-Ray
Bonus episode also out now
PsychOdyssey, a comprehensive documentary about the production of Psychonauts 2 and the team that made it, has been free to watch on YouTube since its launch at the beginning of 2023. We've already waxed lyrical about why it's worth watching, but if you'd rather do so via physical media, you'll soon be able to. Limited Run...
Soapbox Stop What You're Doing and Watch Double Fine's PsychOdyssey Right Now
Please watch 2 Player Productions' outstanding documentary
I had always planned to watch PsychOdyssey. I'd been aware of it since the start of 2023, and only heard good things about it, but it just kinda faded into the background. Recently, though, when me and my partner were stuck for something to watch, I remembered this documentary and suggested...
News Double Fine Releases Mental 32-Part Psychonauts 2 Documentary Series
Embark on the PsychOdyssey
Have you ever wished that Tim Schafer and the other rockstars at Double Fine Productions would release a monstrously in-depth documentary chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2? Hyper specific, but thankfully if that is the case, you're in luck, with just such a series releasing over the weekend. PsychOdyssey...
News Psychonauts 2 Physical Release Confirmed for 27th September
Includes lots of goodies
Update: It's now been confirmed a physical version of Psychonauts 2 will be releasing on 27th September 2022, and will include bonuses like a lenticular outer sleeve, stickers, reversible boxart, art cards, and a code to access behind-the-scenes content. Check out a video above detailing all of the physical bonuses...
News Psychonauts 2 Treated to a PS5 Patch
Better resolution and stability
The excellent Psychonauts 2 has been treated to an update that improves the title's resolution and stability when played on a PlayStation 5 via backwards compatibility. The patch note reads: "Improve PS4 version's resolution and stability on PS5." It does not look like the PlayStation community has discovered exactly...
Soapbox Don't Let Psychonauts 2 Pass You By
Even if it's just the PS4 version
The PlayStation 4 version of Psychonauts 2 is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Despite being perfectly playable on Sony's last-gen system, it's almost as if the world doesn't know this particular version exists as marketing is pumped into the Xbox Series X|S and PC versions of the game. That's completely...
Round Up Psychonauts 2 Reviews Love the Wacky New Adventure
Raz gets razzmatazz reception
A whole 16 years after the original, Psychonauts 2 has finally arrived. Raz is back with another wild adventure that takes place directly after the events of the first game, and it seems like the long, long wait has been worth it. Reviews are now pouring in from various outlets across the internet and almost all of them...
But still 1440p, 60 frames-per-second
Psychonauts 2, the long-awaited and even longer-overdue platformer from Double Fine, is launching in little over a month – and here’s a story trailer to get you in the mood. While the overall art direction doesn’t personally appeal to this particular author, it’s hard not to be impressed by some of the...
News Psychonauts 2 Will Also Release on PS4 This August
Not an Xbox exclusive
Microsoft is doing a very good job of hiding the fact Psychonauts 2 will also release on PlayStation 4 because we have legitimately only just remembered to cover this piece of news. While developer Double Fine is now owned by the Team in Green, the sequel in question was Kickstarted years ago, meaning the PS4 version is still...
News Psychonauts 2 Gameplay Looks So Vibrant and Experimental
PS4 version coming this year
Don't forget that despite Microsoft buying developer Double Fine, Psychonauts 2 will still be coming to PlayStation 4 later this year. You probably wouldn't believe it though given our recent coverage of the game — this is actually the first time we've written about it since July 2020! Nevertheless, it's launching on a...
News Psychonauts 2 Razzle Dazzles with New Musical Trailer, Still Coming to PS4
Double Fine with us
As expected, Double Fine showed up during Xbox's just-finished broadcast, and it's given us a fresh look at its latest project. Is Psychonauts 2 still coming to PS4? Don't worry -- despite the studio being bought up by Microsoft, Raz's brain-bending sequel is still en route to PlayStation. This new trailer gives us our first...
News Double Fine Alumnus Greg Rice Will Be Looking After Indies with Shuhei Yoshida at PlayStation
PS <3 Indies
Greg Rice, former vice president of business development at Double Fine, has announced his new role at Sony Interactive Entertainment. The industry veteran left Tim Schafer's studio in the months following Microsoft's acquisition, but he's now formally said what he'll be up to next. In a tweet, Rice states that he'll be joining...
Review Knights and Bikes - Girls on Bikes Take a Delightful Nostalgia Trip
On your bike
Every close knit group of childhood friends inevitably spawn their very own local legend. These stories are birthed not only by a child’s unique perspective of the world, but probably a bit too much sugar in their diet as well. For this reviewer, it was an ominous looking house that could just be seen over the treeline on my walk to...
News Double Fine Could Release More Multiplatform Games Despite Microsoft Ownership
Head of Xbox Studios open to the idea
It's common knowledge that Microsoft has been busy snapping up developers to add to its roster of first party studios. Teams like Ninja Theory, Obsidian Entertainment, and Double Fine have all been acquired by the platform holder fairly recently as it bolsters its ranks heading into the next generation. All...
News Knights and Bikes Finally Rides onto PS4 with August Release Date
Summer holiday
Knights and Bikes is a game we've been following for years now. Initially announced via a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2016, it's been a long journey for the development duo at Foam Sword Games. However, the gorgeous co-op action adventure is finally ready. We'll be cycling through the mud, fighting baddies with water balloons,...
Never work with children or animals
Knights and Bikes has been a long time coming. This painterly, nostalgic adventure, created by two veteran game developers, enjoyed a successful Kickstarter campaign all the way back in 2016. Since then, a lot of progress updates and the occasional playable demo have kept the title in the back of our minds, and...
News Anticipated Sequel Psychonauts 2 Delayed to 2020
All change
It’s all change at developer Double Fine: the studio is now part of Microsoft’s first-party portfolio and Psychonauts 2 has been delayed. The anticipated sequel – which was originally due out in 2019 – will now deploy in 2020. Don’t worry about the Xbox acquisition, though – it’ll still launch on the PlayStation 4, as...
E3 2019 Double Fine Acquired by Microsoft, But Psychonauts 2 Still Coming to PS4
That's going to Schafer
Microsoft’s still busy buying up any developers on the brink of financial ruin, with Double Fine the latest team recruited to its spunky new first-party unit. As with previous purchases, the in-development Psychonauts 2 will still release on the PlayStation 4, but that’ll be the last you see from Tim Schafer and his team...
The Game Awards 2018 Psychonauts 2 Gets Its First Trailer, and It's Looking Good
Coming next year
Double Fine Productions made a surprise appearance at The Game Awards 2018, showing off the debut trailer for Psychonauts 2. The project has been in the works for a while now after launching a successful crowd-funding campaign, and this is our first proper look at the game. It's looking rather good; that trademark humour is present...
News Classic Adventure Game Grim Fandango Gets Physical Release on PS4
Fantastic
Halloween has come and gone, but you may still be feeling the Tim Burton vibes. There’s good news for adventure game fans, as classic Lucasarts outing Grim Fandango Remastered is getting a physical release on the PlayStation 4. Available from iam8bit for $29.99, the retail package includes a copy of the legendary release on Blu-ray, as...
News Gang Beasts Free Update Brings New Level and Costumes on PS4
Choo choo
Double Fine has just announced a free update to its rough and tumble brawler, Gang Beasts. The 1GB update to the physics-based party game brings a brand new level to the game, which features a train traveling along a cliff side track. Also included is a bunch of new outfits for the rubbery fighters, including rail worker, firefighter, and...
Soapbox Everything's Goalless Universe Is PS4's Most Relaxing Playground
Stephen thinks the lack of structure is one of the game’s best traits
There’s a tips page in Everything's Help menu. The first bullet point on this list of hints is by far the most important, and it informs you of exactly the type of game you’re about to play. It doesn’t tell you about a specific feature, or tell you any controls, or...
Wobble makers
Odds are that you’ve at least heard of Gang Beasts, the multiplayer brawler from developer Boneloaf. It’s been available on PC via early access for years, not to mention its numerous appearances at gaming shows, so you may well have already played it, too. However, the game has now finally launched in full, and what great timing...
News Gang Beasts Drunkenly Lurches onto PS4 Next Month
Just in time for Christmas
Gang Beasts, which feels like it's been in development forever, at last has a firm release date. If you're looking forward to the colourful multiplayer brawler, you can begin scrapping with your buddies from 12th December - just two weeks from today. The title has been a mainstay at gaming shows for the last few years,...
News Party Brawler Gang Beasts May Finally Be Coming to PS4
Double finally
Announcement of an announcement alert! Almost three years after a PlayStation 4 port was announced at PSX 2014, former Internet darling Gang Beasts may finally be coming to the console. The Double Fine published game has had a somewhat troubled development over the years, still stuck in Steam Early Access and yet to have a concrete...
News Psychonauts 2 Seems to Be Coming Along Nicely
'Nauts to see here
Psychonauts 2 is the impossible sequel that we often forget exists. But exist it does, as this ‘First Playable’ milestone that Double Fine has revealed evidences. Now, let’s be clear: the game is still some way away and this is all very much work in progress, but essentially the studio’s managed to collate enough content...
Use your GNOGgin
PlayStation VR is still a young peripheral, and with that we’ve come to expect some growing pains. Dating back to the headset's launch, there’s been a surprisingly high volume of worthwhile titles offered, including some truly great games. But alongside that, there’s also been a glut of high-price, low-quality "experiences"...
Review Full Throttle Remastered (PS4)
Asphalt and trouble
Never has the fallibility of memory been clearer than when revisiting video games from the past. It can be surprising just how big the gulf between recollection and reality can be, leaving you to wonder if your brain just might be responsible for some of the greatest video game remasters of all time. As with last year's...
Hands On Knights and Bikes Promises an Adorable Adventure
Kid mode
We knew we were in for a good time with Knights and Bikes when its stand at EGX Rezzed 2017 featured bicycles to sit on instead of the usual plastic stools. If the developer's aim was to put a smile on people's faces before they even began the demo, it 100 per cent succeeded. This kind of creative approach should come as no surprise,...
News Trippy PS4 Puzzler GNOG Gets Inside Your Head on 2nd May
The miniaturist
Bizarre PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR puzzler GNOG will get inside your head on 2nd May, publisher Double Fine has revealed. The trippy title essentially tasks you with tinkering with the heads of giant celestial space beings – or something like that, to be honest we're not entirely sure. The game will cost £12.99/$14.99, but...
Mind blowing
If there's one truth that can be guaranteed in this universe it's that Everything will divide opinion like few other games. The scientific simulation comes courtesy of Mountain maker David OReilly and promises the impossible: the ability to control everything in the universe – including the very fabrics of space itself. But can such...
Review Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin (PS4)
Decagon of disappointment
With the release of Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin, anyone who's fallen in love with the original Psychonauts in the past 12 years will finally get the chance to dip back into the unusual world of Razputin “Raz" Aquato and his friends. As long as you happen to own PlayStation VR that is. In thi
News Psychonauts Is Free When You Pre-Order Rhombus of Ruin
Discount for PlayStation Plus members, too
While you won't need to have played the original game to enjoy PlayStation VR palette cleanser Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin, you'll be able to get the PS2-to-PS4 port absolutely free if you pre-order the virtual reality game from the PlayStation Store. This offer only appears to apply to North...
News Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin Sightjacks PlayStation VR from 21st February
Raz-ma-tazz
Sony must have been listening to our grumbles because it's finally starting to talk about PlayStation VR software again. Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin is the latest game to get a release date, with Double Fine committing to a 21st February launch date for the virtual reality puzzler. The game, which is set between the original...
Stellar
If a time traveller journeyed through time and told us that a 2D Metroidvania title would be one of the best games Double Fine ever released, we'd both scoff in disbelief and question why said time lord didn't tell us something more important, like who wins the US Election – or whether Paul Blart: Mall Cop 3 is ever made. See, on paper,...
News Lose Your Head Over Headlander on PS4 This Month
Body shop
Double Fine's quite literally lost its mind this time: Headlander, the latest title from Tim Schafer's team, is a game about a disembodied head. Sounds weird, right – until you remember that Rebellion's Neverdead did a similar thing. While that game was full-on grindhouse, however, this headless adventure is spoofing 70s sci-fi hard...
News PS2 Platformer Psychonauts Is Out on PS4 Now
Well, in North America
PlayStation 2 platformer Psychonauts is getting a sequel as well as a PlayStation VR spin-off, but you may be wondering what this series is all about. The original's a bit of a cult classic, launching to muted sales but real critical acclaim, and now it's getting another shot at success on the PlayStation 4, courtesy of Sony's...
News PS2 Platformer Psychonauts Levitates onto PS4 This Spring
Raz more like it
Psychonauts was what you'd call a cult classic back on the PlayStation 2 - and it's now on course for a PlayStation 4 release in the relatively near future. As with the other last-last-gen titles that Sony's been allowing onto its newest console, we assume that it'll feature trophy support, and will more than likely boast enhanced...
PSX 2015 Psychonauts: In the Rhombus of Ruin Leaps onto PlayStation VR
Psychonaut what you were expecting?
Mere days after the announcement of Psychonauts 2, and its somewhat controversial crowd-funding campaign, Double Fine's Tim Schafer took to the stage at the PlayStation Experience keynote to announce that the series will also see a unique new experience on
PSX 2015 Adult Swim Is Bringing Six Weird and Wonderful Games to PS4
Rick and Mortified
Adult Swim Games is bringing a whole mess of new titles to the PlayStation 4, and as is to be expected, they're all wonderfully strange. The games announced during today's PlayStation Experience Keynote included Death's Gambit, Ray's the Dead, Rain World, Small Radios Big Television, and Double Fine's upcoming Metroidvania...
News The Future of Psychonauts Is in Your Hands
Double Fine launches crowd funding campaign for long awaited sequel
What the hell is going on, readers? We're almost starting to believe that Crash Bandicoot will make his long awaited return at PlayStation Experience this week, as every other dream revival seems to be happening. Tim Schafer took to The Game Awards 2015 stage earlier this evening to...
Review Broken Age (PlayStation 4)
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
Broken Age is the newest release from Double Fine, the developer founded by adventure game legend Tim Schafer. The release is noteworthy for having a massively successful Kickstarter campaign; with a goal of $400,000, the studio ended up raising almost $3.5 million. Of course, with huge money came big expectations,...
News Costume Quest 2 Gets a Timely European Release Date
A trick and a treat
After spending, oh, just the eight months in SCEE quality assurance hell, Costume Quest 2 is finally ready for, er, Hallowe'en. The game's already available on the PlayStation 3 in Europe, but missed the Holiday of Horrors by some margin on the PlayStation 4. There's no word as to why the game was delayed – maybe it couldn't...
News Grim Fandango Remastered's PS4 and Vita Trophies Pack a Platinum
Manny mad
The inconsistency between digital Trophies goes on, as it's been confirmed that Grim Fandango Remastered will come with a Platinum gong. It looks like the majority of the trinkets will pertain to the plot and specific actions, but there is a nightmarish addition: "Play the whole game with tank controls." The game has, of course, been...
Review Costume Quest 2 (PlayStation 4)
Trick or treat?
Costume Quest 2 is the latest game from lauded developer Double Fine, and is actually the firm’s first full-blown sequel to boot. The title depicts the continuing adventures of twins Reynold and Wren, as they combat a time travelling delinquent dentist determined to destroy Hallowe’en and its teeth-decaying deeds. Much like the...
News Costume Quest 2 Really Will Skip Hallowe'en on PS4, PS3 in Europe
No fun allowed
Y’know, if we worked at Double Fine, we’d probably be spitting our pumpkin pie all over the office carpet right now. Costume Quest 2 was announced for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 this week – complete with exclusive Sackboy content no less – but when it was mentioned that SCEE hadn’t finalised a release date yet, we...
News Double Fine Treats PS4, PS3 to Exclusive Sackboy Content in Costume Quest 2
Knock and fun
It may seem like we’re playing tricks with you, but we can guarantee that we’re not – Sackboy really is joining the Costume Quest 2 cast on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. Due out ahead of Hallowe’en in North America next week, Double Fine’s hotly anticipated knock and run sequel will allow you to dress up as Media...
News Tim Schafer's Double Fine Already Exploring PS4's Features
Developer was directly approached by Sony
With platform holder Sony aggressively approaching indie studios for the PlayStation 4, it won’t come as much of a surprise to many of you that the company has already contacted Costume Quest and Stacking developer Double Fine. Chatting with
News Psychonauts Launches on PSN Next Week
Naut but good news
Double Fine’s memorable PlayStation 2 adventure Psychonauts is coming to the North American PlayStation Store on 28th August, platform holder Sony has announced. The unhinged adventure will launch as a bog-standard PS2 Classic, so don’t expect any fancy visual upgrades or Trophy support. There’s no word on a price tag just...
News Minecraft Creator Makes Psychonauts 2 Offer
Through Twitter, of course
Earlier today, Double Fine Studios founder Tim Schafer told Digital Spy that he'd tried and failed, on multiple occasions, to find a publisher willing to support a sequel to Psychonauts. Released on PlayStation 2 back in 2005 to critical acclaim, the developer acknowledged that there was plenty of appetite for a follow-up...
