Double Fine boss Tim Schafer has responded to remarks made by Bobby Kotick in an interview with Edge magazine, calling the Activision CEO’s comments, “sad.”

In the interview, Kotick heaped criticism on Schafer’s inability to meet deadlines and called his game, Brütal Legend, “not particularly good.”

Kotick’s remarks come two months after Schafer labelled him “a dick” and “a total prick” in an interview with Eurogamer.

Speaking with that same publication today, Schafer said of Kotick’s comments, “It’s sad is that instead of just insulting me personally, he goes after the product of my hard-working team - a group of people he almost put out of work a while back.

“But what's even sadder is that it took him two months to think of a comeback.”