This game is going to be sick. Fellow butler kid Zach struck up a conversation with me about video games on the flight from Auckland-Christchurch-Dunedin, and let me know that the creator of the best computer game ever, Grim Fandango, was finally coming back. Tim Schaffer, who had hands in Monkey Island 1&2, The Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle as well as Grim, is the lead developer and largely the promotional base of this new title. There’s this really cool old interview that explains the new game and his long absence (Grim, his last game, was released in 1998). Schaffer also gave a speech at GDC trying to figure out why the millions of old-school Lucas Arts adventure game fans have gone unfulfilled in the past near decade. My take on things is that good stories, which Schaffer excels at, are a) hard, and b) only for really cool people, of whom there are not many around when you need them. Psychonauts just came out on ps2, xbox, and pc — I’ll buy it as soon as I land in back in the states (the playable demo is out for those who have really good broadband).