Veteran designer leaving academia and returning to development to work on Underworld Ascendant and System Shock 3
Warren Spector is a full-time game developer once again. OtherSide Entertainment today announced that the veteran developer best known for his work on games like Deus Ex and Epic Mickey will be leaving his academic appointment at the University of Texas at Austin to join OtherSide on a full-time basis as a studio director.
OtherSide Entertainment has bounced back from the cancellation of System Shock 3 and Warren Spector is working on a new game.
Confirming reports circulating earlier this week, developer OtherSide Entertainment has announced that Chinese corporation Tencent has assumed control of System 3 and will be "taking the System Shock franchise forward" from this point on.
A recent report has suggested that the development team behind System Shock 3 might no longer be working on the game. We've got all the details you need on what this could mean for the future of the franchise.
Hugely lame. This would be like finally announcing the development of Half Life 3, then scrapping it. But worse, because people have been waiting for this way longer.
Crap! So sad to hear the news. Was super psyched for another game. Hope the workers will be ok
so confusing too many projects was that sequel or the remaster or the reboot ?
There is a "remaster" (from the looks of it, it looks more like a remake) wich are doing the first game. Then we have these guys, who at least some of them, are former members of Looking Glass Studios.
Things are getting interesting
Can't wait to eventually see this game in action. I still need to play System Shock 1 and 2 but I always loved the aesthetic and what I know of the story.
Ok:
Two words: Hell, yes.
Heck yes?
Golly gosh darn to heck yes?