Has Tim Schafer changed the gaming industry? It’s a question I’ve seen on more than a few message boards and Twitter feeds over the past 24 hours, following the Grim Fandango creator’s announcement that his company Double Fine will use crowdfunding website Kickstarter to finance a new point-and-click adventure game. More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Purple sneakers? Hah. Nothankyou. Oh! Unless they’re custom purple Cons covered in Grim Fandango artwork. Now that, that we can consider. More »
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!
