Three LucasArts classics are coming to Xbox Game Pass

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Remastered versions of Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, and Full Throttle will join the subscription service.

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Tim Schafer recently appeared on the Xbox Podcast to announce that remastered versions of three LucasArts classics—Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, and Full Throttle—will be coming to Xbox Game Pass. Now that Microsoft owns Tim Schafer's studio Double Fine it's likely their future games like Psychonauts 2, which is still in development, will eventually find their way onto the service, but it's nice that a whole new generation will also have the opportunity to be frustrated and baffled by classic adventure game puzzle nonsense.

Grim Fandango remains one of the best stories told in the genre, a Día de Muertos-themed remix of Casablanca set in the Land of the Dead. Two years ago the original voice cast reunited for a live read of the script, highlighting what a great bit of storytelling it is. Day of the Tentacle is a sequel to Maniac Mansion that features time travel and has puzzles that can only be solved by manipulating three separate time periods, which is why our Phil Savage took on the challenge of finishing it without a walkthrough. Meanwhile Full Throttle is a biker adventure that will sometimes let you solve problems simply by kicking them.

All three games will come to Xbox Game Pass on October 29. If you'd like to look back, here are 10 fascinating facts about the history of LucasArts. If you'd like a glimpse of the future, here's every game and studio Microsoft now owns.

Jody Macgregor
Jody Macgregor
Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.