Activision Blizzard is under the impression it still has publishing rights to the game. And it’s threatening to sue developer Double Fine and new publisher Electronic Arts as a result. EA has responded with its claws bared, giving me this rather pointed response: We doubt that Activision would try to sue. That would be like a husband abandoning his family and then suing after his wife meets a better looking guy.
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Valkyries in thong bikinis with electric guitars descend from on high to herald the announcement that Tim Schafer's Brütal Legend will be published by EA next fall.
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Activision is suing Double Fine Productions to stop the release of Brutal Legend, The Associated Press reported, claiming it still holds a valid contract to publish the heavy metal fantasy and has invested roughly $15 million in it.
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Kotaku is reporting something that all of us have suspected for a while: Brutal Legend is apparently not going to be published by Sierra. According to anonymous sources, it seems that the game is once again in the hands of Double Fine Studio...
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Watch the latest Brutal Legend trailer for a small taste of the storyline and gameplay, both of which look and sound amazing. If the game is even half as good as this trailer, fans of games, movies and rocknroll will eat it up. In the words of Jim Cramer, "Buy, Buy, Buy!"
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New Tim Schafer, developer of critically acclaimed Psychonauts, game promises to be something different. I am excited to "play", what will be in my mind, a rock opera. With the Guitar Hero and Rock Band phenomena, I would imagine a rock opera type game with Jack Black's influence combined with Tim Schafer's imagination and design skills will be a huge hit.
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Tim Schafer — the game designer known for funny cult hits like Psychonauts, Day of the Tentacle, and Full Throttle as much as his goatee and mischievous grin — is sitting in the San Francisco offices of Double Fine, paging through Heavy Metal Thunder, a paperback collection of rock-album artwork.
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Brutal Legend Not in Danger of Being Canned, Says Developer Double Fine: Following word that newly-formed publisher Activision Blizzard will not be picking up every Vivendi title in the company's merger transition, developer Double Fine's upcoming heavy metal action title Brutal Legend was seen as a possible casualty.
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Tim Schafer is showing off Brutal Legend at EA's E3 press conference, and just announced that the last old-timey metal legend not in the game - Ozzy - is going to be in the game.
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Lead Designer Tim Schafer talks about the upcoming Brutal Legend with German e-magazine Select.
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