Kotaku: Grim Fandango

This Noble Theme Will Get You in the Mood for Psychic Heroism

Kirk Hamilton — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:15:00 EST

Look, no one really knows what's going on with this whole Notch-Tim-Schafer-Psychonauts 2 thing. But that doesn't mean we can't sit back and listen to what might be my single favorite piece of music from the original Psychonauts! More »

Let's Not Jump To Conclusions About Kickstarter-Funded Games Just Yet

Jason Schreier — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:00:00 EST

Has Tim Schafer changed the gaming industry? More »

Psychonauts Creator Seems Confused By Surprise Sequel Benefactor [Update]

Jason Schreier — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:00 EST

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Double Fine head Tim Schafer is just as baffled as the rest of us at news that Markus "Notch" Persson wants to fund a Psychonauts sequel. More »

Here's What Grim Fandango HD Might Look Like

Kirk Hamilton — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:30:00 EST

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I caught this over the weekend when our friends at Rock, Paper Shotgun posted it—some folks have been dilligently working on putting together an HD "Deluxe" version of the beloved Tim Schafer/Lucasarts adventure gaming classic Grim Fandango. They've posted a video that, sadly, isn't in-engine, but it does give a good sense of what their finished product might look like. More »

Are These The 100 Best Adventure Games of All Time?

Kirk Hamilton — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:00:00 EST

The fine folks over at Adventuregamers.com have taken on one of the most herculean tasks in video-game-list-writing: They have assembled a list of not the top 10, not the top 20, but the top 100 adventure games of all time. It's a really good list, too. More »

The Video Game That Got Jazz so, so Right

Kirk Hamilton — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:00:00 EDT

For some reason or other, jazz soundtracks are a rarity among video games. Plenty of games feature heroic chiptune anthems, Hollywoodesque orchestral scores, and evocative sci-fi themes, but jazz, one of America's oldest art forms, remains surprisingly underrepresented. More »

Will Brütal Legend Be On This List?

AJ Glasser — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:40:00 EDT

Half the fun of super-long video game lists is scrolling through to see if your favorite/most-hated games are on there. The other half of the fun is looking for Tim Schafer games. More »

A Patch Of Gaming Pumpkins

AJ Glasser — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:40:00 EDT

I asked and many of you answered. We almost have enough gaming-themed pumpkins to cover a post a day between now and Halloween. Here's a gallery of ceemdee's pumpkins. More »

Grim Fandango Shoes Make Purple Sneakers Possible

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:30:00 EDT

Purple sneakers? Hah. Nothankyou. Oh! Unless they're custom purple Cons covered in Grim Fandango artwork. Now that, that we can consider. More »

Prayers Answered: Grim Fandango Action Figures

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:00:00 EDT

People, if you want to impress us with custom action figures, don't do Metal Gear Solid, or Grand Theft Auto. Do classic Lucasarts adventure games! More »

Tim Schafer Publishes Original Grim Fandango Design Doc

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:30:38 EST

We're a decade on from the undisputed greatest year in video gaming, a year in which we saw the release of the Tim Schafer designed Grim Fandango just one of 1998's many, many highlights. Schafer, perhaps feeling the sting of nostalgia of the release of Grim Fandango, has graciously released the classic adventure game's original design document, submitted to LucasArts in 1996. The doc, penned by Schafer, Peter Tsacle, Eric Ingerson, Bret Mogilefsky, and Peter Chan, is available publicly as a 72-page PDF. It's full of fanboy giddiness-inducing behind-the-scenes details, character sketches, puzzle designs and stuff from the cutting room floor. More »

Grim Fandango Sounds Better on YouTube?

egauger — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:40:54 EDT

October 13th was Monkey Island Music Day (special thanks to Joystiq for ordaining it so), and by association, LucasArts Adventure Game Music Day. To celebrate I posted a broken link (now fixed) to a Monkey Island music archive and told a sad story about my disappointing Video Games Live LucasArts themes experience. More »

Double Fine Gets Fine Publisher

Michael McWhertor — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:58:06 EDT

Occasionally we get some good news—albeit in the form of a dry press release—about small, creative developers getting some decent financial news. Double Fine Productions, helmed by Grim Fandango and Psychonauts creator Tim Schafer has a publisher for their next title in the form of Sierra. Here's the feel good corporate approved speak: More »

RUMOR: Tim Burton To Direct Grim Fandango; Uwe Boll Weeping Softly

egauger — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:20:53 EDT

Jesus creeping crap, how did I miss this? I blame you, lazy tipsters! It's only thanks to Elias of North93.com that this got through the heavily-landmined zone of terror in front of Kotaku HQ at all. More »