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Xbox's Double Fine is working on "multiple games" in addition to Keeper, says studio head Tim Schafer — but none of them are Brutal Legend 2

During Gamescom 2025, Double Fine's Tim Schafer confirmed that the studio is working on multiple games in addition to the upcoming Keeper.

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In honor of Ozzy Osbourne, Double Fine is giving its heavy metal action game Brutal Legend away for free for 666 minutes

The game features three Black Sabbath songs and three of Ozzy's solo tracks

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Brütal Legend is free in honor of Ozzy Osbourne, but only for 666 minutes

Double Fine's 2009 adventure is a fun way to celebrate heavy metal.

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RIP, Prince of Darkness: Ozzy Osbourne has died at age 76

The heavy metal singer had an extraordinary influence on music and popular culture, and appeared in 2009 Double Fine game Brütal Legend.

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7 upcoming day one Xbox Game Pass games I need to play yesterday — and I'm looking forward to even more

Xbox has already confirmed a ton of upcoming, day one additions to Xbox Game Pass, so here are 7 that I can't wait to play (but I'll have to anyways).

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The 10 best games of Summer Game Fest 2025

Our favourite announcements and reveals from another whirlwind weekend.

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Double Fine's 'Keeper' Is a Magical Lighthouse Adventure Coming This Fall — And It's Absolutely Mesmerizing

Double Fine drops "Keeper," a walking lighthouse adventure launching Oct. 17. We have no "Psychonauts 3," but this surreal Xbox game is stealing the spotlight.

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Double Fine announced its new game, and I'm so ready to play as a sentient lighthouse

From the studio that brought us Psychonauts and Grim Fandango comes a new adventure where you play as a moving lighthouse. It looks charming and strange.

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Tired of words? Double Fine's next game is a 'story told without words' that stars a walking lighthouse and its pet bird

Keeper will be out in October.

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Xbox Games Showcase 2025 preview: The big games and developers to expect on Sunday's livestream

Forza, Call of Duty, Gears of War, Fable, and many more.

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Double Fine dev embarks on a quest to discover Full Throttle's true release date: 'Perhaps the best 30th birthday present I could give Full Throttle was a real birthday'

"Our official anniversary date was simply impossible."

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Super Mario 64, a forgotten Dreamcast JRPG, classic Jet Li films, and more all inspired Tim Schafer while working on Psychonauts

Everything from Final Fantasy 7 to the Nightmare Before Christmas played a part

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The Mind-Bending Masterpiece That's Been Secretly Influencing Games For 20 Years

How ‘Psychonauts’ inspired a generation of gamers and designers alike.

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Fallout and Skyrim show us that talented developers make great games when you leave them alone

Attention is the creativity-killer.

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With Astro Bot winning Game of the Year, Microsoft and Xbox need to start reinvesting in their platforming games

Xbox doesn't really currently have an "all-ages" platformer like Astro Bot, but it could revive a character from one of its many classic series.

GamesRadar

Obsidian's Josh Sawyer thought Pillars of Eternity's Kickstarter had a 50% chance of failing, only for the RPG to be fully funded within 27 hours

"Other people at the studio were also like 'are we really not going to do this?'"

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"It's certainly a universe many folks here at the studio wonder about returning to," says Double Fine Productions when asked about making a sequel to the cult classic Brütal Legend

Double Fine Productions celebrates the 15th anniversary of it's cult-classic action-strategy game, Brütal Legend, by looking back on its history and answering fans questions about plans for a potential sequel.

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Tim Schafer wanted to "compete" with classic D&D CRPGs like Icewind Dale by cranking up the fantasy in Brutal Legend: "Let's really exaggerate it"

Double Fine's open-world genre-blender came from two unlikely sources

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Brütal Legend developer “torn” about making sequel to Jack Black’s cult metal video game

Tim Schafer of Double Fine Productions is conflicted on how to approach a second Brütal Legend title, given how the original controversially mixed genres

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"People ask about Brutal Legend 2 all the time and I'm torn about that" - Tim Schafer says he'd expand on the 15-year-old game's RTS bits for a potential sequel

Double Fine looks back at the genre-blending open-world game

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Amid Astro Bot hype, Psychonauts studio shoots down speculation that it's reviving dormant Xbox platformers like Crash or Banjo: "We want to make our games"

Double Fine is still, thankfully, working on its own ideas

GamesRadar

Double Fine is making several "weird" games that "could never get accepted by a publisher," though some developers leave the door open for Psychonauts 3

The studio returns to smaller projects after Psychonauts 2 left some developers burned out

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A surprise final episode of the Psychonauts 2 documentary series has dropped more than a year after its initial release

The retrospective on Psychonauts 2 and its development is a lot more melancholy than you might expect.

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Psychonauts 2 was designed as the "complete opposite" of an FPS, because Tim Schafer wanted players to leave levels in a better condition than they found them

Double Fine co-founder Tim Schafer looked to action games and shooters when planning out Psychonauts 2's levels

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From the Xbox Games Showcase I'm hoping for a little less conversation and a little more action, please

Xbox has dozens of video games in development and now's the time to clarify its release schedule for the next few years

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