Majesco to publish “the greatest game of all time ever”?

Psychonauts’ future had been looking uncertain since Microsoft Game Studios withdrew its offer to publish the Xbox platformer. However, Majesco has confirmed today that it will be stepping in to bring the Double Fine Studios project to market and will be supplementing the Xbox version with a PC release.

The Xbox doesn’t have that many quality platform style games, so Psychonauts could easily become the leader of the pack. Tim Schafer, Double Fine’s founder certainly has an impressive CV, having conceived the fantastic Grim Fandango and Full Throttle. He is making an unbelievably lofty pitch for the new game though, one that those of more questioning dispositions (including Microsoft Game Studios) would probably dispute because Schafer is heralding this as “what could conservatively be called the greatest game of all time ever.” If that’s the conservative interpretation, Lord knows what Schafer would say about it if he was feeling radical...

Even if Psychonauts doesn’t turn out to be the best thing ever, it does sound interesting albeit in a very weird way. Described as “a third person psychic odyssey set inside the mental worlds of misfits, monsters and madmen, players are endowed with new psychic powers such as telekinesis, invisibility, pyrokinesis, clairvoyance and confusion.” Psychonauts will, at the very least, be laudable for its originality.