Dawn of the Devs is a new Kickstarter project by Underdog Studios all about making game designers the heroes. The…
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Want to know why some people got so excited about the Grim Fandango HD news yesterday? This little doco explains it all.
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This is the latest in a series of videos featuring Tim Schafer playing classic games he designed—90 minutes of Tim…
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A Grim Fan's Fandango: While we're all waiting for Tim Schafer to finally get back the rights to Grim Fandango (could be a while), at least we can still play the original, as long as we still have the discs. This helpful new guide at PC Gamer details how to get the game running on a modern PC, and with mouse support,… Read more
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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.…
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Lucasarts classic Grim Fandango is one of the smartest, funniest video games ever made. It's also a drag to play,…
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Double Fine's Broken Age may be an "old-school adventure game," but it's decidedly new-school in a lot of ways. The…
Part one of Broken Age, Double Fine's crowdfunded adventure game, will launch on Tuesday for their Kickstarter backers, bossman Tim Schafer says. They'll announce the public release date then, too.
Well, this is pretty cool. Tonight at the Spike VGX, Tim Schafer revealed that Frodo himself, Mr. Elijah Wood, will…
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Tim Schafer had a lot to talk to me about, a lot to clarify, when we met in his offices in San Francisco. It's been…