| Microsoft Game Studios is pleased to announce that "Psychonauts" was named "Best 
Original Game" of E3 2002 in this year's Game Critics Awards. The runner-up in the 
same category went to another new star in the Microsoft line-up: "Blinx: The Time 
Sweeper." “Everyone at Double Fine is incredibly excited about winning this award, first 
because it’s a great honor, and secondly, it means that the Game Critics have finally 
forgiven us for that time we broke into their clubhouse and stole their mascot goat,” 
said Tim Schafer, game designer and CEO of Double Fine Productions. "We're very proud of the richly imaginative world that Tim Schafer and Double 
Fine Productions have created in Psychonauts," said Ed Fries, vice president of 
Xbox game content at Microsoft. "Creating games like this keeps these guys off the 
streets."  “Psychonauts” is a wildly surreal action-adventure game in which players use 
paranormal powers to plunge into the minds of bizarre characters. Players journey 
deep into crazy worlds of infinite possibility to thwart the secret plan of an evil 
madman and realize the ultimate dream of joining an elite force of psychic superheroes, 
the Psychonauts. "Blinx: The Time Sweeper" is the world's first "4-D" platformer, where players 
control the flow of time in more than 35 fantastically twisted worlds - just like 
using a VCR remote on the real world. Using the hard drive to digitally record players' 
every move, gameplay can be paused, slowed, rewound, recorded and played back, providing 
a totally new gaming experience only possible on Xbox. |