Cool.    

I already read a lengthy interview over at Eurogamers. Worth checking out guys.

this is awesome news for Double Fine.  Lets just hope they aren't spreading themselves too thin...

I hope one of those games is Brutal Legend Remix.  Remove the bad RTS gameplay and just make it an open world Zelda/GTA type joint.  I wanted to like that game so badly, what a shame.

Hopefully they can start making games that not only have fun stories but are fun to play as well.

Maybe one of them will actually end up being fun

Well, I guess instead of one conceptually amazing but eventually disappointing game every 5 years, they'll go to a conceptually amazing but eventually disappointing game every 12-18 months.
 
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Does this mean they're going to rename themselves Double Double Fine?

Maybe it's just me but I feel that "smaller" games fit DP more than big-budget games. I hope there's a spiritual successor to Full Throttle.

Given how badly put together Brutal legend was, is this really a wise move?

I never cease to be amazed at the amount of people who disliked Brutal Legend, but to each their own. Tim and his talented studio making games is always great news, and I think a smaller, download based market might work better for them since their games have never been mass market. 
 
Lee Petty heading up anything is badass.

I like the sound of this. Smaller games sound like they could work in Double Fine's favor, given the financial success of their last two games. Also glad to hear a lot more content is coming out, as over the last ten years they've only put out two games. Color me excited!

As long as they're good games, I'm all for it. I like Tim's humor.

That is pretty intense.

More Double Fine is always good in my mind.

Uh oh. I hope this works out for all of the games. But with two of them being downloadable, they're probably simpler projects to generate funding for the other two games.

"I hope one of those games is Brutal Legend Remix.  Remove the bad RTS gameplay and just make it an open world Zelda/GTA type joint.  I wanted to like that game so badly, what a shame. "

I'm very excited.  Ever since Brütal Legend tanked, I've been worried it would sink the studio.

At least one of them better be an adventure game D:

God i hope this company makes some money with this stuff. I loved Psychonauts and i really liked Brutal Legend even with its flaws. 
I don't care if these games are updated versions of Pong ima buy them.

Good post, Brad.  Thanks.

I think this makes a lot of sense for Double Fine.  Schafer is a creative genius, but he can't do gameplay and no publisher should be putting him charge of a massive budget title that must succeed.  I don't think the guy has it in him to make a 'safe' game.
 
They'd be a lot better off positioning themselves closer to Telltale / Quantic Dream and letting Tim's imagination run wild.

Give me a game with the story and humour of Brutal Legend without the RTS stuff and I'm sold all the way.

Good for them.  Psychonauts still ranks as one of my favorite games ever. Hopefully they have a hit with at least one of these.

Schafer and arcade titles seem like an absolutely perfect fit to me.
Few things in the videogame world get me excited like Schafer announcements.

" QUADRUPLE FIIIIIINNNNNEEE!!! "

I don't want to be a grammar nazi but you misspelt Schafer twice there Brad. 
 
I@lacke said:

"I hope there's a spiritual successor to Full Throttle. " 

" I'm very excited.  Ever since Brütal Legend tanked, I've been worried it would sink the studio. "

I hope at least one of the four are actually good and not a total let down.

I'm psyched for this, I really enjoyed Brutal Legend for the most part... except the stage battles.

"I don't want to be a grammar nazi...."

I'm sure if they have backing they might also get some funding. Funding = more developers = less work load for them. Unless of course these are mostly small games. 2-4 months with a small team can be a pretty good turn around, for smaller games. But if they're going to be big, I sure hope they hire some more people, because these titles will take eons to come out if they don't.

Good for them, good for us :D.

" I'm psyched for this, I really enjoyed Brutal Legend for the most part... except the stage battles. "

I just hope it doesn't stretch the Schaferosity too thin.

I hope that he is making PSN/XBLA games....

I'd like to see some non Schafer-fronted projects over there, too introduce some new blood to the gaming industry. And maybe try some episodic content like their buddies over at telltale do.

"Bad Muir"
 
Brad Muir?

I feel like I'm one of the few that really liked Brutal Legend, sure, it's not without its flaws, I just found the whole game experience to be a blast and the music, voice overs and humour were all done really well. Sad to hear a sequel hasn't been green-lit, although I'm not shocked by this.

I still hope Brutal Legend 2 happens someday.  I loved the first one but the game could be improved in a lot of ways. (Most notably is having more than 5 actual side quest, and then a bunch of copy/paste of the same 3 minigames)

Could these be arcade DLC games or full on $60 games? I think they're arcade titles.

I really liked Brutal Legend. And I like Tim Schaefer. Need moar!

Can't wait. They mentioned iPhone development, so I'm excited.

Awesome!