Brütal Legend developer Double Fine Productions is working on four "small" games, founder and head honcho Tim Schafer revealed today during his Develop 2010 keynote speech, after plans for a sequel to the heavy metal epic were scrapped.

"[Brütal Legend 2] was kind of a done deal so we were working designing that and then we got some bad news," said Schafer. "We got a phone call from the publisher and it was like 'Actually we're not going to do the sequel' and I was like 'Oh. That's interesting.' So that was not what I expected. Apparently when they said it's a done deal they meant there's no deal and we're done." Read more »

Speaking at Develop 2010 in Brighton (as reported in a pair of stories on Develop), Nick Burton, Kinect development director at Microsoft's Rare studio, promoted the upcoming motion-sensing peripheral for the 360 as both the solution to controller intimidation and a potentially huge new platform for core-gamers. Burton reiterated the motion-control rallying call of traditional hand-held controllers being too complex and creating a barrier to entry for potential gamers.

He used his daughter as an example of technology overload. He explained that she couldn't comprehend why for a game that used two buttons the others on the controller became redundant. Another trouble he noted with controllers comes from concerns over doing something wrong. Motion control solves this because, he said, "it removes the layer of scariness that a controller has." Read more »