--- title: "Thursday, August 1, 2002 - Later that day…" date: 2002-08-01T12:18:00-07:00 author: Tim Schafer canonical_url: "https://www.doublefine.com/news/thursday-august-1-2002-later-that-day" section: News --- # Thursday, August 1, 2002 - Later that day… August 1st 2002 That’s right. Bonus post. Second post of the day. To make up for yesterday’s non-posting. The cost to you? Nothing. Free to you, because we are friends. I only do this because you and I are so close. Other people, who I only pretend to be close with, they cannot see this post. They get another dumb update about mouse feces. While we, true friends, can sit here holding hands, reading these lovingly crafted words together, watching the sentences fly off the page like lyrical ribbons of love, fluttering through the air towards our faces, weaving through our eyeball jelly, piercing our retinas, and nesting in our brains, these verbal tapeworms of friendship and sincerity. And, just like I promised, hard hitting Double Fine Action News: The excellent game Psychonauts is on the cover of the new Official XBOX Magazine, just a little bit. See it there, in the right-hand side bar? A tiny bit of Raz. Just a little bit, just a tease, to whip America up into a Psychonaut-wanting FRENZY. Video Game retailers all across the country saw that side bar and thought, “We’d better nail plywood over our windows until that game comes out, because we’re going to have a non-stop RIOT on our hands soon. Until that excellent game ships, America will have the insanity… *of a manatee*!” And even though no one asked, this must be said about the DF Rodentia: The mice have begun playing head games with us. They no longer throw themselves upon the Peanut Butter traps. It’s like they’ve completely lost their enthusiasm, their mousy lust for death. We haven’t had a good kill in a week. I would say that they were gone, and that man had finally beaten mouse, but level designer Gaurav Mathur claims he “heard something the other night, crawling around under Josh’s desk.” And my only question, of course, is what were you doing crawling around under Josh’s desk, Gaurav? Ha ha ha! Did I mention that this post was free? --- ## Tags [psychonauts](https://www.doublefine.com/search/tag/psychonauts)[xbox](https://www.doublefine.com/search/tag/xbox)[raz](https://www.doublefine.com/search/tag/raz)[designer](https://www.doublefine.com/search/tag/designer) --- ## Associated games [Psychonauts](https://www.doublefine.com/games/psychonauts "Psychonauts") --- ## Related news [Double Fine Is Joining Xbox Game Studios! June 24th 2019 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/double-fine-is-joining-xbox-game-studios) [Let me take you away from all this Death February 12th 2009 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/let-me-take-you-away-from-all-this-death) [Merry Christmas! Buy Psychonauts some more! November 28th 2007 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/merry-christmas-buy-psychonauts-some-more) [The SEASON OF BRÜTALITY is upon us! October 28th 2007 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/the-season-of-brutality-is-upon-us) [P.S. THE SEA MONKEYS ARE STILL ALIVE January 2nd 2007 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/ps-the-sea-monkeys-are-still-alive) [COULD IT BE TRUE? December 14th 2006 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/could-it-be-true) [I LIKE TO EAT FRIED PLANTAINS June 20th 2006 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/i-like-to-eat-fried-plantains) [PSYCHONAUTS ON THE XBOX 360!!! June 13th 2006 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/psychonauts-on-the-xbox-360) [THAT’S ALSO HOW OLD I WAS WHEN I GOT BRACES July 5th 2005 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/thats-also-how-old-i-was-when-i-got-braces) [ACT 1: THEY MEET June 23rd 2005 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/act-1-they-meet)