“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.”

“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?”

“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!”

Broken Age’s Act 1 is currently available on Steam, with Act 2 coming later this year. Learn more about the game at www.brokenagegame.com

IndieBox delivers collector’s edition boxes of independent video games for as low as $14.99 a month (+$3 US S&H). IndieBox, which launched in the beginning of April 2013, is the only monthly subscription box that delivers the joy of the traditional video game box experience.

Double Fine Productions is an award winning, independent game development studio founded in 2000 by games industry veteran Tim Schafer.

IndieBox partners with talented indie developers to create retrostyle game boxes featuring handpainted artwork with DRM-free game copies, full color manuals, CD soundtracks, posters, collectibles, and much more.

This month’s featured game is Brütal Legend, created by Double Fine. The game stars the voices of Jack Black, Ozzy Ozbourne, and other rock legends who are summoned to the world of Heavy Metal to do battle. Swing an axe (and guitar) at demons and monsters as Eddie Riggs, voiced by Jack Black.

If you happened to have missed out on last month’s Luftrausers Collector’s Edition, there’s still time to purchase your own DRM-free physical copy and other goodies at Indiebox.MyShopify.com (while supplies last).

October IndieBox subscriptions signups are open until October 22nd at 11:59 PM. To learn more about IndieBox or subscribe, visit TheIndieBox.com

A little over a year ago Double Fine partnered with Humble Bundle, opened the process to the public, and invited anyone to vote on their favorite prototype. It’s how we got Spacebase DF-9, and now, Hack ‘n’ Slash.

Production of the game was funded by Indie Fund, Humble Bundle, Hemisphere Games (makers ofOsmos), The Behemoth (makers of Castle Crashers), Morgan Webb (of X-Play fame, RIP), and others.

It should be noted that when Double Fine released the announcement the picture you see above is actually a 12mb zip file that secretly can be unpacked to reveal additional details about the game including audio files. Very clever and fitting for the theme of the game. Curious secret seekers found this message in the image description.

You may have figured out that this JPEG is more than just an image. It is not an ARG. It is not a transmedia narrative. It’s just a puzzle we’ve built for you that will give you some more Hack ‘n’ Slash tidbits as you peel back its layers. If you’re into that kind of thing, we hope you enjoy it!