However, Warren Spector, studio lead at Otherside Entertainment, is still attached to the project, which might be enough to maintain the creative vision laid out by him and Paul Neurath for System Shock 3.Įven still, as Tencent is now involved in the game's development, it's difficult to discern exactly how this will affect System Shock 3.

As all that has been shown about the game so far was pre-alpha footage, and some if not all of it may not be used at all at this point.

We’ll update with more information as we have it.With Tencent now publishing the title, and Otherside having expressed difficulty in producing a huge, highly anticipated title such as System Shock 3, a great deal about the game may have already changed altogether. “System Shock 3” was teased back in December by OtherSide, which had already raised more than $860,000 for its “Ultima Ascendant” project on Kickstarter.Ī message to Spector and to the University of Texas was not yet answered as of this posting. Last year, the group of hand-picked students created a game called “The Calm Before.” He was hired in 2013 to launch the Academy and was making $93,000 as of mid-2015, according to the Texas Tribune Government Salary Database. This is the second year Spector has served as director at the UT Gaming Academy. He’s long been a fixture in Austin’s gaming scene, even refusing to move to California when he was working for Disney on two “Epic Mickey” video games as head of Junction Point Studios. It’s unclear if that means Spector will relocate to Boston. Spector will leave his post as director of the University of Texas Denius-Sams Gaming Academy at the end of the current semester to work with OtherSide.

OtherSide previously announced “System Shock 3” as well as “Underworld Ascendant,” both based on beloved PC-gaming franchises Spector originated at Austin’s Origin Studios. Game developer Warren Spector, the influential designer of games such as “Deus Ex,” “Epic Mickey” and “System Shock” is leaving academia to head up development of “System Shock 3” for Boston-based OtherSide Entertainment, according to multiple reports.

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