Tim Schafer has hired Ron Gilbert to work on a new game with him over at Double Fine Studios. The duo created the Monkey Island games for LucasArts back in the day. Double Fine have a lot of things in the pipeline, with four games being developed for THQ. The first of that little lot will be Costume Quest.

Gilbert’s title isn’t one of those four and doesn’t have a publisher yet. Gilbert has recently worked with Hothead Games on DeathSpank, but he left before the game was released. A sequel to that (DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue) was released last week.

Tim Schafer has told Develop that Double Fine has four games in development. They all have publishers. Some are downloadable and some are retail (from this you can see we have no idea which games are going where). Three of the teams are headed up by the major three who worked on Brutal Legend: Nathan Marks, Tasha Harris and Lee Petty.