Microsoft acquires Psychonauts developer Double Fine

Psychonauts 2 will still launch for other platforms

Double Fine, the studio behind games like Psychonauts and Broken Age, has been nonheritable by Xbox Game Studios. The news was declared on-stage nowadays at E3 2019.

Psychonauts a pair of can still launch for all its antecedently secure platforms, PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation four, and Xbox One. in a very video discharged nowadays, founder Tim Schafer shared additional data regarding the acquisition. “Nothing regarding the USA goes to alter in any respect,” he said, adding that the move can permit Double Fine to continue making games in its same spirit.

Double Fine’ an addition brings Xbox Game Studios standalone developers to fifteen. “Under the leadership of business veteran Tim Schafer, Double Fine has been a beacon of creativeness and spirit in game development for pretty much twenty years with classic games like Psychonauts, Brütal Legend and Broken Age, aforesaid Head of Xbox Game Studios Matt swag in a very ready statement. “At the foundation of each game is stress on making crazy worlds with originality, story, and fun. That commitment to making a novel, player-centric expertise is what player USA to the studio, and I’m wanting forward to seeing what we have a tendency to produce along.”

Double Fine isn’t the primary indie studio to be nonheritable by a serious developer. In 2018, Valve nonheritable Firewatch creator Campo Santo.