Planescape: Torment Lead Writer Chris Avellone is Working on Prey

It’s not clear yet if the Prey reboot Arkane Studios and Bethesda Softworks announced at E3 this year falls into our scope of coverage or not, but there’s at least one tidbit about it we should cover for the sake of our audience. Industry veteran Chris Avellone, who left Obsidian last year to pursue freelancing, is working on the title in some writing capacity, as announced by the man himself on Twitter. Apparently it was the folks at Arkane Studios that reached to Avellone first too, rather than the other way around, but the man isn’t involved in a lead position:

@ChrisAvellone To this day, you’re still my favorite writer in the industry. Are you able to say if you’re the lead writer on nuPrey or not?

No – the amazing @RicardoBare and @rafcolantonio came to me w/ the story, and I was like, “fuck yes, I’d love to help.”

You can also check the CGI trailer of the game below, which makes the title look significantly different than the version of Prey 2 Bethesda showcased years ago:

As a piece of trivia, Kotaku’s Jason Schreier (who has one of the best track records in the industry for this kind of coverage) wrote an article in 2013 claiming Obsidian Entertainment worked on Prey 2 after it left Human Head’s hands. It’s possible that this might make Avellone more familiar with the universe and help him while writing on the title, though we can’t currently know if he ever worked on the project while it was briefly passed to Obsidian, and whether the current Prey reboot shares any element with the title that Bethesda quietly cancelled.