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Leap Motion owners better start stretching their air keytar muscles now that Double Fine’s Dropchord is available for purchase in the Airpsace store for both PC and Mac. In terms of innovation, the game itself isn’t particularly earth-shattering — if a score-based arcade game and a music visualizer got together and had a baby, it would be Dropchord. What’s enough to pique our interest is the fact that its gesture controls have been optimized for use with Leap Motion, allowing it to showcase the device’s motion-activated potential. That being said, the game is also heading to other platforms in the near future. It’ll land on OUYA on July 31st and iOS and Android devices on August 1st. You can check out the full press release after the break or head on over to Airspace to purchase the game for $2.99.

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Source: Airspace Store

Heads up, folks, just go ahead and grab your wallet right now. That’s because the latest Humble Bundle has arrived, and it includes a number of stellar titles from Double Fine. Here, you can name your own price for Costume Quest, Psychonauts and Stacking, and if you beat the average, you’ll also score a copy of Brutal Legend. All payments of $1 or more will net you a Steam key for the games, which are available — some for the first time — on Windows, Mac and Linux. As a unique twist to the promotion, payments of $35 or more include early backer access to Broken Age, the crowd-funded game that was previously known as Double Fine Adventure. As always, you can allocate some (or all) of your payment to charity, which benefits the EFF and Child’s Play. Click on through to the Humble Bundle and you’ll find bonus incentives for doling out some cash.

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Source: Humble Bundle

OUYA CEO Julie Uhrman took to the stage at DICE 2013 today to reveal two new partnerships, one with Psychonauts creator Tim Schafer’s studio Double Fine Productions, and the other with Words with Friends creator Paul Bettner. So far, that means both Double Fine’s Reds and The Cave are headed to OUYA, while Bettner’s Verse studio only announced it was working on two unannounced titles. “I believe we’re about to see another disruption even bigger than this last,” Bettner said, referring to his previous work in the mobile game space. “Gamers want the App Store in their living room. OUYA will be the first to deliver it,” he said.

The OUYA arrives in March for Kickstarter backers, and in April for the rest of the world (even later for retail). It’s unclear exactly when Schafer and Bettner’s games will arrive on the Android-powered console, but we’d expect The Cave to be there sooner than later (it’s already available on other platforms).

Update: This post originally stated that Tim Schafer created the Monkey Island series, when in fact it was created by Ron Gilbert. While Tim Schafer worked on the Monkey Island series, he is not its creator. Sorry about that, readers (and Ron Gilbert)!

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