Tim Schafer

Have you played Ron Gilbert’s 1990 adventure game The Secret of Monkey Island? That might depend how old you are, or…

It’s true: Five is a ridiculous number for summing up a decade’s worth of video games. It’s far too small. One can’t…

After cracking jokes on stage during the Game Developers Choice and IGF awards at GDC last night, Double Fine boss…

“I’m not anti-union, but I don’t really think we need them, right?” said Double Fine head Tim Schafer while hosting y…

If not for the director of SimCity selling his company to Electronic Arts, we might not have Psychonauts, Broken Age,…

We’re back with our third and final Kotaku Splitscreen special episode from the Game Developers Conference in sunny…

Dawn of the Devs is a new Kickstarter project by Underdog Studios all about making game designers the heroes. The…

In Northern California, Star Wars creator George Lucas has a sprawling complex called the Skywalker Ranch. If you…

Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, Double Fine CEO Tim Schafer joins us to talk about his piles and piles of money. Plus:…

Three years ago, Tim Schafer raised over $3 million on Kickstarter, and today he’s finally here to deliver what he…

Snazzy, beloved noir adventure game Grim Fandango is getting resurrected: better graphics, new controls, new…

A sequel to Tim Schafer and co's classic skeleton noir LucasArts adventure, Grim Fandango? Be still, my non-beating…

This is the latest in a series of videos featuring Tim Schafer playing classic games he designed—90 minutes of Tim…

If you're one of the (many) people who's overjoyed by Kickstarter's impressive ability to revive underappreciated…

Here's a fun little extra from my interview with Double Fine's Tim Schafer that I couldn't leave on the cutting room…

A couple of weeks ago, I sat down with one of video gaming's most creative people to talk about... money. Money.…

Lucasarts classic Grim Fandango is one of the smartest, funniest video games ever made. It's also a drag to play,…

Double Fine's Broken Age may be an "old-school adventure game," but it's decidedly new-school in a lot of ways. The…