Perhaps the stars are aligning for a follow up to Double Fine's 2005 cult classic, Psychonauts.
Yesterday I noted that series protagonist "Raz" made an appearance in Spicy Horse's Alice: Madness Returns. Now Double Fine has revealed that it has regained the publishing rights for Psychonauts from the game's original publisher, Majesco.
Double Fine's Anna Kipnis said on her Twitter account that this means all digital sales of the game (on Steam or Xbox Live, for example) would benefit the developer directly. Company co-founder Tim Schafer, however, says it's more complicated than that.
"It's true the publishing rights have reverted to Double Fine," he told Gamasutra, "but there are some more deals that need to be worked out and contracts that need signing before that actually means anything, financially."
Schafer says once that's been cleared up, they "will have some fun stuff to announce" before adding "no, it's not Psychonauts 2."
Oh.
Psychonauts Publishing Rights Revert To Creator Double Fine [Gamasutra]
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8:40 AM on 06.15.2011 | 
Maybe Tim Schafer intends to feature an older teen or adult Raz in a game that takes place in the same continuity but isn't a sequel to Psychonauts, sort of the way that Platinum Games is going to include Jack from Mad World in Anarchy Reigns or the way that Capcom always seems to find room for another cameo appearance by anybody they see fit to have make one.
Fucking tabloid Kotaku.
"Its not Psychonauts 2"
....oh, nevermind.
Will gladly buy this game again in HD remake forms, especially if the money is going directly to Double Fine.
An entire Psychonauts spinoff devoted to Olieander's time in the PSI Wars?
Sounds Biowolfensteinshocky.
So, 3DS remake?
PSYCHONAUTS 3 YAY!!!!!!
I hope you're right. I mean Sierra skipped from Leisure Suit Larry 3 to 5 because the creator said there wouldn't be a Leisure Suit Larry 4.
Fucking Tim Achafer...
Who is the milkman??
Who is the milkman??
Psychonauts has been returned to it's rightful owner.
Of course, knowing Schafer, it won't be anything close to that at all.. For all we know it'll be pictures of him from another concert :)
(I kid, I loved those pics of him at the concert when they started popping up.. Its nice to see developers having fun instead of everything we hear about the business being a suicide waiting to happen)
"A testament to why I stopped using Kotaku."
At this point I'm pretty sure Kotaku uses its readers, and it stopped being the other way around a long time ago.
at that point I might be an 80 year-old man, but it's going to happen
What?