#SEGA NEWS! announcement of The Cave - Double Fine & Sega team-up!

After some teasing for a while on Ron Gilbert's part, Double Fine's all-new title has finally been properly announced!

And what a twist, it will be produced by Sega!
Sega is (not only my fav but also) one of those producers that has always been for more original IPs than just recycling sequels all the time.
(well, besides the usual annual Sonic game)


These last couple years, Sega West's been pretty much open about a rich and varied digital lineup.
They just announced a partnership with Double Fine Productions (Tim Shaffer's company, responsible for the likes of Psychonauts and Brutal Legends).
Their latest project? A strange platformer-adventure game from Ron Gilbert (creator of Monkey Island)!


This new IP will be called The Cave - no relation to the indie title Cave Story! - it has been announced for early-2013 for console systems and PC in download only.
Check out the Official Website.
 

The game seems to be a pretty fun looking sidescroller.
Ron promised various surprises and interesting bits.
It's about a fantastic underground cave you will explore from a team made from 3 characters you'll select (Maniac Mansion-style). The story is about an amusement park and an hidden basement to explore, with castles and whatnot underground.


It's a concept that has been on Ron Gilbert's mind for quite a while actually.
It will be Ron's first real project since he joined Double Fine recently, and the studio's first collaboration with Sega.
Ron's been quite happy with the teamwork with Sega, they still believe in original titles and adventure nowadays!

Check out this first trailer~


THE CAVE - Vidéo d'annonce par SEGA

Looking quite fun and promising actually^^
Can't wait to hear more on this one!

Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert discuss about adventure games

Not just glad to have launched a successful kickstarter project, Double Fine's Tim Schafer made this little video in which he and classic adventure game legend Ron Gilbert discuss about the genre and their carreer at LucasArts.

A very nice insight video with lots of little trivia and memories from the golden age of the genre, enjoy!



I really hope this turns out good, but the best of the genre's been coming from Europe these last bunch of years mostly.

Let's see what these master can come up with!~

Pic of the day - Tim Schafer and Al Lowe

Here's something epic!
Mario & Sonic together at last-level of epic.

It's Tim Schafer (from LucasArts' classic Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, etc.) and Al Lowe (From Sierra's classic Leisure Suit Larry, Freddy Pharkas,..) next to each other!

Photo taken at this year's DICE 2012. (a game developer expo)

Both adventure games legends finally met while while filming an episode of The Bonus Round today.

Tim's doing pretty okay at the moment, at Double Fine. What with raising money for a brand new modern point & click game and going to finally produce a sequel to Psychonauts.

Meanwhile, Al Lowe's still trying to finish his adventure game Sam Suede and his currently overlooking the remakes of the Leisure Suit Larry games.

Gamin' NEWS! first pic of new Ron Gilbert game

Here's the first pics of the new game from Monkey Island daddy Ron Gilbert:

Since he left LucasArts in the 90s, he's been mostly heading Hothead Games as creative director, where he produced for example the excellent DeathSpank series.
He came back to Monkey Island at Telltales recently and has now left with Tim Schafer for Double Fine studios.

His first game with Double Fine is slowly being revealed. And it already really looks like a Ron Gilbert production.

Ron Gilbert released the first two pieces of concept arts on his blog.

Here are a couple of fine pieces of concept art from the game I'm making with the amazing folks at Double Fine.  I'm so excited.  This is an idea that has been in my head for a long long long time.  It predates Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island.  It's a game that needed to be made.
These are two of the playable characters.  That's all I can say right now, but more will follow later. 

Oh, my! How intriguing!

Cookie Monster chews over a new video game idea

Okay, Frobman, I'll post this video here as well :P
Happy?

"Legendary game designer Tim Schafer pitches Cookie Monster on his tasty idea for a new Sesame Street game!"



Tim Schafer pitching the idea of the Sesame Street game to the Cookie Monster!
XD