{"id":79920,"date":"2026-08-27T13:21:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=79920"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:21:59","slug":"brutal-legend-is-free-for-666-minutes-as-double-fine-honors-tim-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=79920","title":{"rendered":"Brutal Legend Is Free for 666 Minutes as Double Fine Honors Tim Curry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/08\/26\/brutal-legend-screenshot-12-determined-1787786024464.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Double Fine Productions, who recently regained the rights to its entire catalog following its pivot back to independence after Microsoft parted ways with several studios during its &#8220;Xbox reset,&#8221; is honoring Tim Curry by making Brutal Legend free to download and own on PC for 666 minutes \u2013 until 3:06am PT\/6:06am ET on Thursday, August 27.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Curry, who passed away today at the age of 80, voiced Doviculus in Double Fine founder Tim Schafer&#8217;s 2009 heavy metal strategy game Brutal Legend. &#8220;Rest in peace, dark prince,&#8221; the company wrote on its itch.io page where you can download the game on PC. IGN&#8217;s own Daemon Hatfield loved Brutal Legend, giving it a 9 out of 10 in his review. &#8220;Brutal Legend is a tour de force that wraps up humor, music, and clever gameplay into one highly polished package,&#8221; Daemon wrote. &#8220;You haven&#8217;t played a game quite like this before and won&#8217;t want to miss it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-video\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Curry was perhaps best known for his role in the cult classic film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but also appeared in many video games besides Brutal Legend, including Command &amp; Conquer: Red Alert 3 (back in the FMV cutscene days!), Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, and Dragon Age: Origins. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Double Fine, meanwhile, has announced that it is using its newfound independence to bring back its Amnesia Fortnight game jam as it looks to create its next project(s).<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Ryan McCaffrey is IGN&#8217;s executive editor of previews and host of IGN&#8217;s weekly Xbox show, <\/em>Podcast Unlocked<em>, and a co-host of <\/em>Next-Gen Console Watch<em>. He&#8217;s a North Jersey guy, so it&#8217;s &#8220;Taylor ham,&#8221; not &#8220;pork roll.&#8221; Debate it with him on Twitter at <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DMC_Ryan\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>@DMC_Ryan<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/double-fine-productions-makes-brutal-legend-free-for-666-minutes-to-honor-tim-curry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double Fine Productions, who recently regained the rights to its entire catalog following its pivot back to independence after Microsoft parted ways with several studios&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[44,2006,4171,7393,1147,16905,1968,5516,7644],"class_list":["post-79920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-brutal","tag-curry","tag-double","tag-fine","tag-free","tag-honors","tag-legend","tag-minutes","tag-tim","wpcat-32-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}