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Double Fine’s attempt to fund a point-and-click adventure through Kickstarter has now exceeded $2 million, having first started on February 8.

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Double Fine’s Tim Schafer believes console manufacturers should pay heed to the report 2D Boy’s Ron Carmel complied last year regarding the loss of independent developers on Xbox Live.

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Pat’s trousers may be safe after all; Markus “Notch” Persson has clarified his position with regards to the funding of Psychonauts 2.

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Double Fine has made its first Kickstarter update, revealing platforms, languages and other exciting plans for its untitled Adventure.

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Mojang boss Markus “Notch” Persson didn’t hesitate when Double Fine boss Tim Schafer said he’d need a lot of money for Psychonauts 2.

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Is Minecraft’s Markus Persson about to descend like some benevolent fairy tale prince and rescue Psychonauts 2 from reality’s thorny tower of fiscal woe? Only in dreamland. Patrick Garratt’s trousers are on the block.

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Double Fine boss Tim Schafer has said his studio’s crowdfunding initiative wasn’t inspired by negative experiences with publishers so much as the realities of independent development.

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UKIE has said it’s to publish a report next week that will outline the specifics on how crowd funding in the UK should be legal.

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Crowd sourcing platform Kickstarter has confirmed suspicions by admitting Double Fine’s Adventure has broken more than one record in raising $1 million in less than 24 hours.

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It’s not the first studio to go down the Kickstarter route, but it’s the biggest one to do so yet. Double Fine gave the games industry its Radiohead moment today. Johnny Cullen explains.

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Tim Schafer’s Double Fine has achieved $400,000 Kickstarter funding for a secret new game, amassing the total from eager gamers in just a few hours.

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Following comments that a sequel had been pitched “several times” to no avail this morning, Mojang boss Markus Persson has publicly offered on Twitter Double Fine head Tim Schafer to fund Psychonauts 2.

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Double Fine boss Tim Schafer has actually said he’s pitched a Psychonauts sequel “several times”.

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GDC organizers have announced three more panels for the main conference, with visual arts tracks from Rocksteady and Sony, and a production track session from Double Fine.

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Double Fine has confirmed to Joystiq that its Kinect exclusive Happy Action Theater will be released on Xbox Live Arcade February 1. Announced back in October as a game for “three-year-olds or college dorm rooms full of drunken 20-year-olds”, it was originally slated for a holiday release before seeing a delay. It features 18 mini-games lasting a few minutes each, offering a cycling playlist which turns your living or dorm room into a virtual playgrounds.

Double Fine’s confirmed it’s to bring Stacking to PC “soon.” The news is, amazingly, brought to us via Russian stacking dolls in an acceptance speech for the game winning Best Downloadable Game from X-Play for the console version earlier this year. I blame Double Fine’s Tim Schafer and Lee Perry for what its just scarred my head with.

Video’s past the break. Thanks, RPS.

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“I don’t think we’re averse to making sequels. I just think we haven’t had a real mega breakout hit. If Brutal Legend had done five million copies we’d probably still be working on Brutal Legend 2 right now. It would have been a slam dunk for EA to immediately sign it. So, I wouldn’t rule it out but there’s still this passion and hunger to make new shit here that I absolutely love. Tim is so good at attracting really creative talent. These four games – they’re so different, they’re so creative, they’re so out-there, and they don’t come from Tim. They come from the brains of other people who are here at the studio. And that’s super-cool, so I’d hope we can keep doing that.” – Iron Brigade project lead Brad Muir to Eurogamer on the possibility of sequels in Double Fine’s future.

Iron Brigade’s project lead Brad Muir has said not to expect as many game releases back-to-back from Double Fine in 2012, as the firm plans on implementing a more “staggered release schedule.”

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Deathspank creator Ron Gilbert’s shown off two pieces of concept art from his upcoming, unannounced game. The art, which consists of a female doctor and a man in a suit, comes from a collaboration being made at Double Fine with Gilbert’s old Monkey Island partner, Tim Schafer. Posting on his website Grumpy Gamer, Gilbert said the game comes from “an idea that has been in my head for a long, long, long time,” since before Monkey Island. More news on it “will follow later.”

Get the pieces of art below.

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Double Fine has announced that Trenched, now known worldwide as Iron Brigade, will be released in Europe on November 30 for XBLA. In addition to the European release, on the same day, players who have already purchased the mech shooting and tower defense title under the Trenched name, will be updated automatically to Iron Brigade complete with new content and enhancements free of charge. The additional goodies to the game include a challenging infinite Survival Mode and ten new pieces of high-powered loot, along with a new leaderboard.