Overview
- Double Fine confirmed Friday that it is independent from Microsoft and has regained ownership and publishing rights to the games it made under Xbox.
- The studio will launch a Kickstarter on August 31 for Amnesia Fortnight 2026, a livestreamed game jam where backers will help choose four prototypes and then vote which prototype becomes a small released game.
- 2 Player Productions will document the event for a studio documentary, and the Kickstarter campaign will run through most of September.
- Double Fine cut 23 staff during its transition to independence to reach a smaller, sustainable size, a move the company said was needed to protect the studio’s future.
- Workers’ earlier NLRB union petition was reportedly withdrawn and the studio is now using direct game revenue plus Kickstarter funds to extend runway as it reorients after Xbox’s restructuring.