Double Fine Productions CEO Tim Schafer image: Game Developers Conference

Double Fine Productions — a San Francisco-based game developer known for titles like Psychonauts, Broken Age, and Brütal Legend among others — has announced it has been acquired by Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios, making the number of standalone game studios under Xbox now 15. Xbox Game Studios has added seven new standalone studios in the past year alone.

With its acquisition of Double Fine, Xbox Game Studios is getting a key talent in Tim Schafer, a veteran game developer who launched Double Fine 19 years ago. Prior to Double Fine, he developed games at LucasArts, a now Disney owned developer known for its Star Wars and Indiana Jones based games.

Double Fine has developed more than 30 games and published 8 titles since inception.

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