- KEEPER is quite a big trip, and it could be very, very dangerous - 24 October 2025
If you like dark and mysterious lands of the unknown then have we got a travel package for you! Keeper is a story told without words, in which a long-forgotten lighthouse is awakened and, joined by a spirited seabird, it embarks upon a heartening tale of unlikely companionship, and an unexpected journey into realms beyond understanding. It’s a bite-sized, third-person puzzle-adventure, unlike anything you've experienced before.Keeper is out now on Steam! Don't look up anything about it, trust us, just play and immerse yourself in the journey.Play It Today!“A Mind-Blowing Adventure” -The New York times - 100“A truly magical jaunt through one of the most beautiful video game worlds ever made” - Eurogamer - 5/5“a brain-tickling odyssey that’s stuck with me far beyond the credits” - IGN 9/10
- Legendary adventure game gets brand new fan made remaster mod - 18 May 2024
Back in 2015, Grim Fandango Remastered came out, making it easier than it had been since the original version's 1998 launch to play one of the most beloved adventure games ever made. Still, even with the attention given to the classic LucasArts launch - one as well regarded as the studio's The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, and Maniac Mansion - the remaster didn't provide players with every one of the updates they were looking for. Fortunately, almost a decade later, fans of the game have just put out a new mod that finishes remastering the remaster for free. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Grim Fandango cast will reunite at E3 for an anniversary celebration Free games: Grim Fandango Remastered is free as part of the GOG Winter Sale Double Fine's finest adventures are cheap for the Humble Day of the Devs Bundle
- ScummVM celebrates 20th birthday with The Longest Journey support - 11 October 2021
ScummVM celebrated its 20th birthday on Saturday, two decades of making old games easier to run on modern systems. The project started focused on LucasArts adventure games built in the SCUMM game engine and the first release only supported Monkey Island 2, and it has since grown to support over 300 games across other genres too. To celebrate that big birthday, a new update hit adding support for more game engines and many more games, including The Longest Journey , Grim Fandango , and Crusader: No Remorse. Read more
- ScummVM releases big new update to celebrate 20 year anniversary - 10 October 2021
ScummVM is 20 years old - and to celebrate it's just released a big new update. Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine (ScummVM) is a program that allows you to run many classic point-and-click adventure games and RPGs on modern computers. ScummVM was created by then computer science student Ludvig Strigeus, who pushed the initial revision of the code, version 0.0.1., on 9th October 2001. It was originally created to play LucasArts adventure games that use the Scumm system, but it supports many non-Scumm games, too. Read more
- Classic LucasArts remasters are coming to Xbox Game Pass - 17 October 2020
Classic LucasArts remasters are coming to Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft has announced. Grim Fandango Remastered, Day of the Tentacle Remastered, and Full Throttle Remastered launch on Xbox Game Pass on 29th October for Xbox and Windows 10 PC. 1993 point and click adventure game Day of the Tentacle is the sequel to Ron Gilbert's Maniac Mansion. Full Throttle is a 1995 graphic adventure from Tim Schafer. And Grim Fandango is the 1998 adventure game also directed by Schafer. Read more
- The 10 best hells in PC games - 20 March 2020
One Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be struck off. Hell is other people, wrote Jean-Paul Satre. But also my favourite level in Doom. He was a smart man, and he probably lives in hell now, on account of all the atheism. But listen, hell doesn t seem that bad. Bit hot. Bit demonic. You could do a lot worse than a trip to the underworld, is what I m saying, and as luck would have it, we have the perfect means for you to go there without singeing your eyebrows or being dunked in a toxic lake for eternity. That s right: videogames. It s always videogames. Here are the 10 best hells you can visit on PC. (more…)
- The PC Gamer Top 100 - 31 August 2018
For a constantly updated list of our favorite games on PC, check out our list of the best PC games right now .   Every year, the PC Gamer team embarks on an epic quest to choose the top 100 PC games. Where previously we voted for our favourite games, this year we talked: discussing each of our nominations and deciding which games should make the list. The result is a more honest, considered reflection of our conflicting tastes and opinions as PC gamers. This list represents what we think are the greatest PC games you can play today. We wanted to celebrate the breadth and variety of PC gaming, and so, for the most part, have restricted ourselves to one game per series. You'll also find a selection of personal picks: games we individually love that didn't quite make the cut. Enjoy! If you're looking for a list of the games that helped shape PC gaming as we know it, try…
- Watch this live read of Grim Fandango starring the original cast (and Jack Black) - 13 June 2018
Has it really been 20 years since Grim Fandango? Almost—the game turns 20 in October, and to celebrate Geoff Keighley and Tim Schafer put together a special event at the E3 Coliseum Tuesday night. The key cast of Grim Fandango reassembled to do a live read of the script, with Schafer setting the stage as narrator. It's not every line from the game, obviously, the but the hour-long event runs through the key scenes of Manny's quest to make amends with Meche across four years of the day of the dead. Composer Peter McConnell and a backing band provide an accompanying live soundtrack and sound effects. Oh, and Jack Black is there. Black isn't playing his role from Double Fine's Brutal Legend—he subs in for a few of the smaller Grim Fandango voice parts and hams it up appropriately. For me, the highlight is seeing Tony Plana reprise the role of Manny Calaver…
- See Grim Fandango s cast reunite for a live read-through - 13 June 2018
The main voice cast and composer of LucasArts’ Grim Fandango reunited last night during E3 for a live performance of scenes and songs from the splendid adventure game. The game turns 20 this year, and after all this time it’s just lovely to see them having a lark together, reading through scenes, gabbing about the game, and jamming (and singing!) those top tunes. Watch the hour-long performance, from Geoff Keighley’s E3 show, below. (more…)
- Great moments in PC gaming: Going to year 2 in Grim Fandango - 5 June 2018
Great moments in PC gaming are short, bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories.   Grim Fandango is a beautiful adventure, and never moreso than during Year 2. That’s the part set in Rubacava, an art-deco Casablanca where we leave hero Manny Calavera sweeping floors and return a year later to see him at the head of his own casino, a local hero. That transition alone is a beautiful bit of game design, but it’s what follows that really cements it. Where most games ultimately make you some kind of outsider, with little or no real place in the world save maybe as its local bruiser/gunslinger, Grim Fandango opened up Rubacava with the idea that you know everybody, and more importantly, everybody knows you. Whether it’s picking up that at some point Manny has made contacts with the police, or the unrequited love between him and Carla the securit…
- Tim Schafer talks Psychonauts 2 and more remasters of Lucasarts adventure games - 21 April 2018
Tim Schafer, the designer of all-time PC Gamer favourites like Grim Fandango , Full Throttle and Day of the Tentacle received the BAFTA Fellowship last week in recognition of his creative contribution to games. Along with much of the staff at Double Fine, Schafer is currently working on a sequel to cult classic Psychonauts 2, which was successfully crowdfunded in January 2016.  We never seem to pass up an opportunity to talk to Schafer , and at EGX Rezzed last Friday I sat down with him to ask how Psychonauts 2 is coming along and whether he'd be interested in remastering more of Lucasarts' treasure trove of adventure games—even if they weren't games he worked on.  How does receiving the BAFTA Fellowship make you feel? Besides old? It's really nice. It's coming from an organisation that values creativity and tries to encourage that in a generati…
- Psychonauts, Everything, and more are super cheap during the Double Fine Humble sale - 24 January 2018
The Humble Store is holding a huge Double Fine sale today. The sale runs through 10 a.m. Pacific (1 p.m. Eastern) tomorrow, Thursday, January 25, and includes games that the studio both developed and published. You can find all the games in question by searching for Double Fine in the store, or by following this link . Here are some of the best games and discounts available:   *  Everything - $8 at 50 percent off ( $10 with the OST )  ; *  Psychonauts - $2 at 85% off  ; *  Day of the Tentacle Remastered - $5 at 67 percent off  ; *  Grim Fandango Remastered - $4 at 75 percent off  ; *  Full Throttle Remastered - $10 at 34 percent off ; *  Broken Age - $5 at 75 percent off   ; *  Escape Goat 2 - $4 at 60 percent off   ; Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through one of our links. Read our affili…
- Get Grim Fandango Remastered free in GOG's Winter Sale - 12 December 2017
GOG's Winter Sale is now live, bringing with it a host of special offers and, as the headline above suggests, Grim Fandango Remastered free-of-charge. From now through December 14 at 6am PT/2pm GMT, you can grab your complimentary copy of LucasArts' reworked classic that's set in the land of the dead. The 2017 GOG Winter Sale itself runs from today through December 26, and sees a variety of top games going for great prices. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt , for example, costs £13.99/$18.39 with a 60 percent discount. Darkest Dungeon and Tyranny are subject to the same price slice, selling for £7.59/$9.99 and £13.99/$18.39 respectively; while Cuphead is on sale for £12.79/$16.74 with 15 percent less its RRP.  My own favourite there is What Remains of Edith Finch —on sale for £11.99/$15.76 with a 20 percent discount.  In a bid to encourage…
- Double Fine's adventure games headline the Humble 'Day of the Devs' Bundle - 24 October 2017
Day of the Devs is an upcoming gaming event where fans can meet up with a bunch of game developers to hang out and revel in their mutual passion. It's also the catalyst for Humble Bundle's latest bundle, which is offering $131 worth of games at obscene discounts.  Spend any amount on the Day of the Devs bundle and you'll get TumbleSeed , a 2D roguelike about pushing a seed up a mountain with a balance beam; Loot Rascals , a grid-based roguelike about exploring alien planets; and Grim Fandango Remastered, the definitive version of Double Fine's classic (which we loved) .  At the time of writing, the bundle's average donation is $6.02. Chip in more than that and you'll get Abzu, one of the best underwater games around ; Flinthook , a cheerful, skill-based platformer; and Day of the Tentacle Remastered , another fantastic adventure game which benefit…
- Happy Memorial Day Weekend! - 26 May 2017
Your usually crowded weekend menu has a whole extra course this week, an extra day of gaming that you probably didn't prepare for. But how to use this time? Perhaps the sommelier can be of assistance... Might we suggest Grim Fandango Remastered? 1998 was a classic vintage after all, and this edition was found down in the cellars and given a good dusting off. You'll find that it's aged spectacularly, and at this price is really a steal. Here let us pour you a hefty glass...
- Happy Memorial Day Weekend! - 26 May 2017
Your usually crowded weekend menu has a whole extra course this week, an extra day of gaming that you probably didn't prepare for. But how to use this time? Perhaps the sommelier can be of assistance... Might we suggest Grim Fandango Remastered? 1998 was a classic vintage after all, and this edition was found down in the cellars and given a good dusting off. You'll find that it's aged spectacularly, and at this price is really a steal. Here let us pour you a hefty glass...
- Have You Played Grim Fandango? - 7 February 2017
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. You met me at a very strange time in my life, Grim Fandango . And I rather think I met you at a very strange time in your creators’ lives too. …
- Best Steam Summer Sale Deals: Day 4 - 14 June 2015
What are the best Steam Summer Sale deals? Each day for the duration of the sale, we’ll be offering our picks – based on price, what we like, and what we think more people should play. Read on for the five best deals from day 4 of the sale . …
- Grim Fandango Remastered Soundtrack Now Available! - 6 May 2015
Remastered and Rerecorded by Peter McConnell and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Sultry, Latin Jazz score from Grim Fandango Remastered is now available on Steam! Buy the Grim Remastered OST for $9.99, or get the soundtrack and game together for $19.99! And for this week grab the game at 33% to celebrate the soundtrack release!
- Grim Fandango Remastered Soundtrack Now Available! - 6 May 2015
Remastered and Rerecorded by Peter McConnell and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Sultry, Latin Jazz score from Grim Fandango Remastered is now available on Steam! Buy the Grim Remastered OST for $9.99, or get the soundtrack and game together for $19.99! And for this week grab the game at 33% to celebrate the soundtrack release!
