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Double Fine Productions regains ownership of IP and publishing rights following independence from Xbox

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Double Fine Productions regains ownership of IP and publishing rights following independence from Xbox

Studio also announces fifth edition of its Amnesia Fortnight event, where small teams of employees design and build game prototypes

Double Fine Productions has regained ownership of its intellectual property and publishing rights after leaving Xbox.

CEO Tim Schafer noted during the Kinda Funny Games podcast (via Kotaku) that some of Double Fine's games "still say 'Microsoft' […] but it just takes a while for it all to process. When people buy our games, it supports the studio."

Double Fine, along with Compulsion Games, was spun out of Xbox Game Studios following layoffs that affected over 3,200 employees last month.

Compulsion Games officially separated from Xbox last week. CEO Guillaume Provost said "the team told [him] we would rather eat rocks and drink gasoline than be split up."

Double Fine also announced its fifth Amnesia Fortnight event following its independence from Microsoft.

Each year, employees form small teams to design and build game prototypes over two weeks. Some prototypes have become full projects, including the recently released Kiln.

This year's event, 'Amnesia Fortnight 2026 – Indie Reboot: A Double Fine Productions Game Jam Documentary and Kickstarter Campaign,' will launch on August 31.

Double Fine will host a live Game Jam, with backers having the opportunity to choose which idea gets made into four new prototypes. They will then "decide which of those four will become a real (small) game."

"All alongside the process, 2 Player Productions will be filming all the fun to produce one of their award-winning documentary spectaculars," the studio said.


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