Grim Fandango remaster confirmed for PC

      IN EARLY JULY, one month after Sony representatives stood onstage at that company’s E3 press conference and announced that Grim Fandango would be available for the first time in almost 15 years, we got confirmation that the beloved adventure game would be on the PC, too. (Oh, thank goodness.)
      Yes, despite the implication at E3 that the remastered version of the game would be exclusive to Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Vita, Grim Fandango will indeed be coming to its true and rightful PC home, as well as to Mac and Linux. This isn’t really a surprise, considering that Grim Fandango creator and Double Fine founder Tim Schafer tweeted about “other platforms” during E3, but still—nostalgic gamers can now heave a sigh of relief.
      And lest you blame Sony for making you wait on the edge of your seat for this announcement, keep in mind that Sony apparently helped Double Fine in the negotiations to get the rights to Grim Fandango back after LucasArts spent a decade and a half squatting, sticking its fingers in its ears, and shouting “Sell one of the most critically acclaimed games of all time again so people can actually play it? I can’t hear you! I can’t hear you!” while George Lucas ran roughshod over the Star Wars franchise.
      Ahem—sorry. At any rate, Disney may be the best thing to happen to Star Wars in a long time, and the best thing to happen to classic adventure games from the 1990s. We still have no official release date for the remastered adventures of Manny Calavera, though—the July announcement from Double Fine says “just a BIT longer.”