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Double Fine still want back catalogue distribution rights after THQ sale: "not for business reasons", but to "tidy up things"

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Double Fine still want back catalogue distribution rights after THQ sale: "not for business reasons", but to "tidy up things"

When THQ filed for bankruptcy shortly before their implosion in January, Double Fine took an active interest in one small piece of the publisher’s DNA - the distribution rights for Costume Quest and Stacking. But in the auction that followed, the rights were scooped up alongside hundreds of others by relative unknowns Nordic Games.

Double Fine head Tim Schafer isn’t very happy about that - though he doesn’t particularly care about the money.

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Humble Double Fine Bundle: “I can taste the value”

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Humble Double Fine Bundle: “I can taste the value”

Having already had one exclusive Humble Bundle back when they ran the Amnesia Fortnight Bundle, you would have thought Double Fine would have other things to do than offer all their lovely and awesome games in a low price juicy package.

Luckily, they don’t so read on to find out how you can buy Brutal Legend, Stacking, Psychonauts, and Costume Quest for less than $10.

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Brutal Legend announced for PC; preorders get into multiplayer beta

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Brutal Legend announced for PC; preorders get into multiplayer betaDouble Fine's rock opus Brutal Legend has long been absent from the PC. Despite coming out on consoles more than three years ago, we've been left resorting to less pure forms of rock gaming (rock, paper, scissors is pretty much the extent). These dark times are nearing an end however as earlier today - though spotted in the Steam database last week - Double Fine announced Brutal Legend is coming to the PC.

There's no release date as yet, though there is a trailer and news of a playable multiplayer beta.

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Notch won’t be funding Psychonauts 2

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Notch won’t be funding Psychonauts 2Sometimes, Twitter is the electric blue conduit that joins the dots between human beings and makes things happen - campaigns, revolutions and running jokes. But on other occasions, it’s a hub of hubbub, misinformation and exciting propositions that end in disappointment.

See, when Notch told Double Fine’s Tim Schafer via Twitter that the pair should “make Psychonauts 2 happen", he really meant it. But that was before he’d seen the price tag.

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