Stacking, the latest game from Brutal Legend and Psychonauts developer Double Fine is now available for download from the Xbox LIVE Arcade. The new XBLA game weighs in at roughly 993MB and priced at 1200 Microsoft Points.
Stacking is a third-person adventure puzzle game, Stacking's diorama open-world environment is set against a 1930's era backdrop. Watch the Stacking announcement trailer after the break.
Content:Stacking Price: 1200 Microsoft Points Availability: Check availability in your region Dash Text: From Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Productions, explore a vintage world inhabited by living Russian stacking dolls as you jump into more than 100 unique dolls and use their special abilities to solve a wide variety of puzzles & challenges. Play as Charlie Blackmore, the world’s tiniest Russian stacking doll, and embark on an adventure to rescue Charlie’s family from the nefarious industrialist known only as the “Baron.” This imaginative 3rd person puzzle adventure game will take you on a journey from a bustling Royal Train Station to a high-flying Zeppelin as you collect unique dolls and matched stacking sets to display in Charlie’s secret hideout, where you chronicle your adventures.
A new Brutal Legend demo is available for download from the Xbox Live Marketplace for Canada and the US.
Brütal Legend is an action game from the mind of Tim Schafer. Eddie Riggs, a roadie chosen by the Rock Gods and played by Jack Black, must battle through a heavy metal fantasy world to save humanity and slay demons — using only a broad axe, his guitar Clementine, and an army of metal heads.
Dash Text: [ESRB: M (Mature) BLOOD AND GORE,INTENSE VIOLENCE,PARTIAL NUDITY,STRONG LANGUAGE,SUGGESTIVE THEMES,GAME EXPERIENCE MAY CHANGE DURING ONLINE PLAY] Brütal Legend is an action game from the mind of Tim Schafer. Eddie Riggs, a roadie chosen by the Rock Gods and played by Jack Black, must battle through a heavy metal fantasy world to save humanity and slay demons — using only a broad axe, his guitar Clementine, and an army of metal heads.
Even with EA trying to pull out the rights card they still were not able to keep brutal legend from being released on time.
Activision and Brutal Legend developer Double Fine Productions have reached a settlement over the release of the video game, wrapping up months of totally lame litigation and all but ensuring the game's guranteed release this fall.
According to a report from the Associated Press on the matter, Activision's legal team informed a Los Angeles Superior Court of the settlement, but have not yet disclosed details on the agreement. A hearing was scheduled today, following a delayed ruling from the court.
Activision filed suit against Double Fine in June, claiming still existing rights to the game, despite EA's investment in the action adventure game. Double Fine later countersued, claiming that Activision wanted to kill Brutal Legend to protect its Guitar Hero franchise. The obvious good news is that everyone will now be able to enjoy Brutal Legend when it is released this October, no strings attached.
I will admit that when this game was just starting to roll out its ads and there wasn't much to go on i wasn't impressed at all but with this new trailer showing just how much has went in to the making of the game Tim Schafer might be right, check out the new trailer and what Tim had to say here.
VG247 met up with master games designer Tim Schafer at E3 last week, who told them he feels that 2009 is Brütal Legend’s year.
“This has been a great year for us. I’d thought we’d never get there,” he said when asked about how he sees Brütal Legend fitting in alongside the myriad of shooters and rhythm action games on show at the LACC.
“We’d be showing it and I’d walk up and there’d be this huge game on a billboard and I’d be like, ‘I wonder if we’ll ever get there, we’ll probably never get there,’ and now this year there’s Brütal Legend up there.
“I really feel like this is Brütal Legend’s year, and it really feels like it does stand out among the other games,” said Schafer.
Brütal Legend is out for Xbox 360 and PS3 later this year. That is, if Activision’s move to block the game’s release doesn’t bear fruit.
Publisher EA has confirmed that Double Fine Productions’ upcoming Xbox 360 and PS3 outing Brutal Legend will be released in the UK on October 16th.
The action adventure, which stars Jack Black, sees players assuming the role of rock roadie Eddie Riggs who, when knocked unconscious, emerges in a rock-themed alternative universe.
The game is being developed by Tim Schafer, whose work history is littered with critically adored classics such as point and click adventure The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango and curious platformer Psychonauts.
“Having an official release date is awesome,” Schafer exclaimed. “And how cool is it that EA threw down the dough to have the name of an entire month changed to Rocktober?”
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