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Double Fine acquired the full rights to Costume Quest and Stacking from Nordic Games, who previously acquired the distribution rights after THQ declared bankruptcy earlier this year.

Because Double Fine now owns the properties outright, they have decided to make retail releases of Stacking, Costume Quest, and Psychonauts for Windows and Mac. The releases will be published by former rights holder (of Stacking and Costume Quest), Nordic Games. This will mark the first time Costume Quest and Stacking has been available at retail, as they were previously only available through digital distribution.

In other Double Fine news, another one of the excellent Double Fine Comics has received the book treatment, as Mark Hamer's Snapshots (formerly known as Polaroids) is now available in softcover or hardcover format from the Double Fine store. Both versions contain a foreword by Tim Schafer and an introduction by Scott Campbell.

To celebrate, Double Fine is holding a contest to give away five signed copies of the book to five people who make the best caption for the five uncaptioned snapshots posted here. You have until Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at 11:59pm Pacific time to enter, so if you think you can come up with some clever captions, be sure to enter for your chance to win.

Additionally, fans of Double Fine's Amnesia Fortnight two week game prototype developing sessions will be happy to know that Tim Schafer recently posted on Twitter that the next Amnesia Fortnight session will be occurring around February of next year.

To wrap this post up, one more bit of Double Fine related news. former Double Fine intern Marius "Majus" Winter has been making a game each month this year with Benedikt Hummel at Major Bueno. To celebrate a year of games, they are making Major Bueno Party and they are enlisting the help of everyone. For a few more hours (until November is over) Until December 3rd, you can submit a character to be part of the game, and have your character appear with those made by such artists as Broken Age lead artist, and creator of My Comic About Me, Nathan "Bagel" Stapley, former Double Fine art director, and creator of Double Fine Action Comics, Scott Campbell, and former LucasArts and Telltale lead artist, and the creator of Grickle, Graham Annable. So, don't be shy, and submit a character now. I've submitted about a half a dozen myself.

Source: Double Fine Action News

If you have an Xbox Live Gold subscription, you can now get Double Fine's Iron Brigade for free, as it is the latest in Xbox's Games With Gold service which offers 2 free games each month for Xbox Live Gold subscribers to download and keep.

Source: GameTrailers

Autonomous, the Lee Petty designed retro-futuristic sandbox robot game that appeared in Amnesia Fortnight 2012, has now been adapted and expanded for Windows, exclusively for the Leap Motion controller.

This new version of the game has many changes over its Amnesia Fortnight 2012 predecessor. In addition to the motion control, the game now has:

multiple levels! Once the player has met the energy goal for the current level, they must battle their way to a transmission center where they are teleported to new levels—each with a distinct look and procedurally placed robot parts, automatons and energy sources.

Sky Map: A holographic map of the level is projected into the sky, allowing the player to quickly find energy sources, friendly and enemy automatons and other important structures.

Hunter-Killstar: The player’s presence no longer goes undetected. Automatons known as HUNTER-KILLSTARS are periodically transmitted into the world, designed specifically to hunt down and destroy the player. As time ticks on and the levels progress avoiding and defeating them becomes more and more challenging.

It's available now for free for Windows for the Leap Motion controller.

Source: Double Fine Action News

Double Fine has officially anointed the second-highest voted title to come out of Amnesia Fortnight 2012, JP LeBreton's space simulator Spacebase DF-9, the privilege of becoming a fully fleshed out game.

The game has been launched as a Steam Early Access Game, meaning an alpha version is available to buy right now. $24.99 gets you the early access; there is also a bundle including the soundtrack available for $29.99. Over at Double Fine's official site you can check out new media and view what features are currently part of the development plan.

Costume Quest for iOS is now a reality. So if you have an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch running iOS 6.1 or later, you can now enjoy the comic RPG goodness of Costume Quest, just in time for Halloween.

While you are enjoying Costume Quest, consider joining in on the Double Fine Game Club today as they stream Costume Quest and chat about the game, along with special guests project lead Tasha Harris, designer Gabe Miller, lead programmer Anna Kipnis, and artist Mark Hamer.

If you miss the Double Fine Game Club Costume Quest session today, don't worry, you can still catch part 2 on the 19th of October and part 3 on the 26th.

Didn't get a chance to make it to PAX to pick up the action figures of the characters from the excellent game Psychonauts?

Well don't worry because the Double Fine shop has you covered. All ten figures are now available to all, at a price of $7 USD for one (sold as a random draw) or $70 USD for the whole set.

If you have have been wondering about who will voice some of the characters in Broken Age, wonder no more. Double Fine has provided a list of some of the cast, so we don't have to.

Too lazy to click the link? Fine! Jack Black is the headliner, in the a defined "cameo and featured roles" capacity. He joins Jennifer Hale, best known for having starred in pretty much every video game ever.

Richard Horvitz -- Raz from Psychonauts -- will also be heard, as will Nick Jameson who is on his way to Telltale to re-dub the Sam & Max seasons is a great voice actor. More awesomeness can be read in this Double Fine post.

Sony is packing an application called The Playroom for free with every purchase of the PlayStation 4 add-on, the PlayStation Camera (which will retail $60/€50/£45). The application is a mini-game compilation that demonstrates how the Dualshock 4 controller can interact with the PlayStation camera.

Double Fine has been tapped by Sony to make some free DLC for The Playroom which will feature augmented reality mini-games, similar to the ones Double Fine made for the Xbox 360's Kinect in Double Fine Happy Action Theater and Kinect Party.

I found both of Double Fine's augmented reality mini-game compilations quite fun, so it will be interesting to see what Double Fine can do with this new technology.

Source: Kotaku

Remember The Cave Action Figures? You may remember that the boxes of this seven figure set included the words Series 1.

Well, Series 2 has been produced, and features characters from Double Fine's first title, the excellent game Psychonauts!

Series 2 is now out at PAX Prime (and will likely be coming to the Double Fine store afterward, assuming they don't sell out at the show).

Want to play Double Fine's Middle Manager of Justice, but not sure if it's worth the time? Why don't you let Jennifer's review help you make up your mind!

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Middle Manager of Justice is Double Fine's game where you play as a middle manager running a superhero agency, training superheroes and using money earned to buy equipment, and then put those superheroes out on the streets to fight in RPG style battles.

It has been an iOS exclusive since it was released last year. However, that has changed, because as of Wednesday it's available on Android devices as well!

Best of all, since it's a free to play, you can play it at no charge. And, since it's one of the few games that's done freemium games right, you can actually completely enjoy it without paying anything for in-game items if you want (although Double Fine would certainly appreciate it if you did, since they had to put money into making the game) since the game's in-game premium currency actually is earned through regular game play fairly regularly.

You can grab it for iOS devices through iTunes and for Android devices through Google Play.

Source: Android Police

Dropchord, Double Fine's "music driven score challenge game" is out now for the Leap Motion controller for PC and Mac. It will be available for the Ouya on July 31 and for iOS and Android on August 1.

The game's soundtrack is also now available on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play.

If you're unsure what all the hubbub is about, Double Fine released a video of their Dropchord release party, which we've helpfully embedded below:

The sidescrolling platforming game Runner 2 is getting some DLC on Steam this Thursday (and later on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii U) called the Good Friends Character Pack, which brings characters from other games into Runner 2 as playable characters. The good news is that when you buy this pack, you will be able to play as Raz from the excellent game Psychonauts!

Gaijin Games has released a trailer for Raz's appearance in the game (complete with a voice over by the game's narrator, Charles Martinet), which is embedded below for your viewing pleasure:

Tim Schafer posted news about Broken Age's monetary and development woes, and plans to relieve some of those woes through releasing half of the game in January through Steam Early Access. Backers of Broken Age can read Tim's message here (or through the Backer only forum at Double Fine's forums).

News sites are picking up the story, so if you didn't back, you can still get the skinny on what's happening. Apparently, Tim designed the game too big in scope, so he's had to cut it down in order to fit in the budget. Unfortunately, the Kickstarter money still isn't enough for the large scope of the game, so he's funding the game additionally from the money Double Fine made from the games they're self publishing. He doesn't want to have to cut large things like the girl or the boy from the game, so he's decided to get additional funding through Steam Early Access. Steam Early Access will allow gamers to play the first half of the game in January 2014, and then play the rest of the game in a free update in April or May of 2014.

Those who backed the game don't have to worry, you'll get the Steam Early Access at no cost (this Steam Early Access plan is for additional purchases, not those already made). You'll also still be able to get access to the beta even earlier than that, as originally promised.

When not Kickstarting out new games, Double Fine is, apparently, getting their games IndieFunded. Polygon brings word of two new games in the making, both being funded by IndieFund. Note the "new"; these are not Broken Age or Massive Chalice.

What more? Go to Polygon to find out. Spoiler: We pretty much just quoted the whole article.

Source: Polygon

When Double Fine launched their Kickstarter to fund Massive Chalice, our man in San Francisco, Robert Betancourt, travelled to their offices to speak with designer Brad Muir. The result from his expedition can now be found right here.

Or over here.

So what is going on here? A new Double Fine Kickstarter? To Kickstart a tactical strategy PC game? Called Massive Chalice (Kickstarter)?

Well, don't read this; go read and watch the Kickstarter instead! The game, which you can Kickstart, is aimed for a September release for PC, Mac, and Linux, and is helmed by Brad Muir.

Kickstart it! At the time of writing, the project has been Kickstarted up to $9,791 of its $725,000 goal.

The latest Humble Indie Bundle is all about the Double Fine.

Pay what you want, and get Costume Quest, Stacking, and Psychonauts for PC, Mac, and Linux as DRM-free downloads (and as a Steam key if you pay more than $1 USD)! Pay more than the average (currently just under $8 USD), and you'll also get Brütal Legend (also for Windows, Mac, and Linux DRM-free and with a Steam key).

If you have the money, you may also pay $70 or more, which will net you an exclusive Humble Double Fine Bundle T-shirt (available in black or cream).

Like all Humble Indie Bundles, a portion goes to charity (Child's Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation), and there's a slider available which you can decide how much of your payment goes to which charity, how much goes to Double Fine, and how much goes to Humble Bundle. If you haven't picked up these games yet, want to get a Steam key for the games, want to support charity and/or Double Fine, or just want to get them again for whatever reason, the Humble Double Fine Bundle is for you.

Polygon is reporting that Leap Motion has pushed back their Motion Controller for PC and Mac from May to the 22nd of July. The company pushed back the release to allow for a new round of beta testing that will begin in June.

This means that Double Fine's "music driven score challenge game", Dropchord, has also been pushed back, as it will be a launch title for the device. There are also plans to release Dropchord on smartphones and tablets, but no specific platforms or release dates have been set for those versions as of yet.

Source: Polygon

Game Informer's print preview of Broken Age has been out for a while but it has only just been made available online.

It's a good long read, but if you're determined to go into the game knowing nothing at all, it may be best to steer clear - it does go into some details of the early plot of the game. In fact, it reveals more than has even been available to backers so far, though nothing I would regard as a big spoiler. To me, reading it recalled poring over those old LucasArts previews in the 1990s, trying to glean as much information as possible because we were so excited about this new thing. I've got a good feeling about this one.

If you want to get a good feeling too, visit Hot Youn-- er, I mean go here.

Source: Game Informer