Double Fine Honor's Heavy Metal Legend Ozzy Osbourne by Making Heavy Metal Video Game Brütal Legend Free for 666 Minutes Only

Double Fine Productions has made dense metallic video crippled Brütal Legend escaped for 666 minutes lone to grant dense metallic fable Ozzy Osbourne, who died this week aged 76.

The Black Sabbath frontman passed distant connected July 22 conscionable a fewer weeks aft helium performed astatine the Back to the Beginning farewell concert.

Osbourne voiced the quality The Guardian of Metal successful Brütal Legend. The character's quality and property was based connected Osbourne himself.

Ozzy Osbourne successful Brütal Legend alongside Jack Black's character.

In a station connected societal media, the Microsoft-owned Double Fine said it had made Brütal Legend escaped connected Itch.io. “But this unthinkable woody volition lone past for 666 minutes, arsenic the prophecy foretold,” the workplace continued. “So get yourself clicking, earlier it disappears similar a demon successful the night…”

Brütal Legend is Double Fine’s 2009 dense metal-themed enactment escapade real-time strategy hybrid, which stars Jack Black arsenic roadie Eddie Riggs. Brütal Legend was published by EA aft Activision dropped the game, and Double Fine and Activision ended up successful a ineligible conflict implicit the publishing issues.

Ozzy Osbourne starred successful the crippled itself alongside chap metallic icons Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, and Lita Ford. Double Fine brag Tim Schafer selected implicit 100 metallic songs to beryllium included successful the game.

Double Fine, which is engaged processing Keeper for PC and Xbox, announced the woody astatine 4pm PT, which means it ends astatine 3am connected Thursday, July 24.

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