Today we received the news that Nordic Games has signed a distribution deal with Double Fine Productions for the retail edition of Broken Age for PC, Mac, and Linux. Pretty cool if you ask us, we love collecting adventure games on retail discs just like my fellow Germans, that’s why the version will also have German voice-over added!
The folks at Nordic Games had this to say:
“After releasing Costume Quest, Psychonauts and Stacking for retail in 2014, this marks another important step in our almost heist-free cooperation” said Reinhard Pollice, business & product development director at Nordic Games. “With Broken Age, 2015 starts off great for aficionados of the adventure game genre. Our intel also suggests that Germany is a veritable stronghold when it comes to pointing and clicking, hence the new German voice-overs for Broken Age make us very happy.”
And here is Tim Shafer’s side of the story:
“I am very excited about the retail version of Broken Age,” said Double Fine President and CEO Tim Schafer, “And also relieved, as having a widely distributed, physical copy of the game will make it more safe from solar flares and EMP bombs and stuff like that. As long as people store their disks in fire proof safes. People do that, right?”
Wouldn’t be fair if Justin Bailey didn’t get a word in too.
“Not really” replied COO Justin Bailey, “But people who purchase the physical copy can get to playing the exciting conclusion without having to wait for the game to download!”
Pretty exciting that retail is being supported in a cool way again – especially for those Germans tho – I will definitely try the voice over!
