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1-on-1 With Double Fine's Tim Schafer: Psychonauts 2, Being Acquired by Microsoft, and More!

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Video Games, News, Tech News, Leisure

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Our final episode of 2020 is a special one! Ryan welcomes Tim Schafer, the head of Double Fine (aka one of the newest Xbox Game Studios), for a 40-minute conversation about life since being acquired by Microsoft. But don't fret – that very much includes an update on Psychonauts 2 as well! P.S. We're off next week but we'll be back with new episodes of Unlocked starting January 5. Happy holidays and Happy New Year!

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0:00.0

This is Steve Downs, the voice of Master Chief Sierra 117 and you're listening to podcast unlocked the world's number one Xbox podcast now

0:12.1

Finish this fight

0:14.5

Master Chief out

0:19.6

What's happening everybody welcome to podcast unlocked episode

0:22.5

475 the final IGN unlocked episode here of 2020 and sending us out in style is none other than Tim Schaeffer

0:33.3

One of the newer Microsoft employees

0:36.8

Er at double fine studios just down the way

0:40.0

From what used to be when we had offices they were just down the way from us and now who knows but Tim Schaeffer welcome

0:48.0

Hello, thanks for having me nice to be here. I got a pause really

0:51.2

Pause this is where everyone's gonna clap right

0:53.8

Great and they've just nice to be introduced as someone new feels so old these days like yeah, no, you're a new guy

0:59.6

You're the new guy fellow Microsoft

1:02.7

Were you hazed at all at

1:04.9

At the first like sort of team dinner of all the of all the new studio heads?

1:10.9

Yeah, I did like Brian Fargo put any sort of salt in my

1:14.4

Desert no I will not that I know yet the real hazing is oh it's coming my cats coming

1:21.6

They this is another rest is another kitten that's gonna ruin this interview. Sorry. Oh here

1:26.0

We know they're enhancing it the viewership is going up. Yeah, yeah

1:31.4

The internet and cats is this is running the bank

1:34.1

but

1:35.1

Yeah, I do feel like the new kids still there, but

1:38.8

As soon as we ship our first game

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