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Ken Levine on the Literate Gamer Podcast

Ken Levine, who recently moved away from AAA game development and formed a smaller studio, Ghost Story Games, has participated in an episode of the Literate Gamer podcast. He talked about his creative process, writing in video games, and some…

How Nightdive Studios Brought Back System Shock

A feature article on GameInformer takes a detailed look at how a small indie team, Nightdive Studios, has managed to acquire the rights to the System Shock franchise. What started as just a desire to play System Shock 2 on…

IGN’s Top 100 RPGs of All Time, Part 4

Now we’re getting to the good stuff. The 4th part of IGN’s top RPG list includes entries 21-40, with a fair share of must-have titles for such a list among them. Some examples: Fallout – 38 Post-apocalyptic imagery is somewhat…

System Shock Retrospective

An article on Medium provides a detailed and extensive look at the history and specifics of the game that kicked off its own subgenre of first person shooters, and served as an inspiration for everyone’s beloved Deus Ex, among other…

“Making PC’s Most Complex Games” Roundtable Discussion

PC Gamer caught up with industry veterans Warren Spector, Harvey Smith, Ricardo Bare, Tom Francis, and Steve Gaynor – the designers of iconic titles such as Deus Ex, Dishonored, BioShock, System Shock 2, and Ultima Underworld – for a lengthy…

Irrational Games Rebranded to Ghost Story Games

Ken Levine’s Irrational Games studio has been going through internal changes for some time now. And while we still don’t have any solid information regarding the studio’s next title, it has been recently announced that Irrational Games is no more.…

PC Gamer’s Best RPGs of All Time 2016 Edition

People love “best of” lists. Knowing this, PC Gamer has provided a timely update to their best RPGs of all time list. The criteria are nebulous at best, and the genre itself doesn’t do them any favors, but this is…

System Shock Remake Interview

GamingBolt has published an interview with Stephen Kick, the founder of Night Dive Studios, about the upcoming System Shock remake. In the interview, Kick describes the challenges of staying faithful to the original while also introducing some contemporary mechanics. Another…

How 2K Killed Irrational Games 

Irrational Games is responsible for some amazing video games, including System Shock 2, the Freedom Force series, and the BioShock series, but the unfortunate reality is that the studio didn’t even last a decade following its acquisition by 2K Games.…

Night Dive Studios Video Interview

Matt Barton has published the first of a multi-part interview with Night Dive Studios CEO Stephen Kick on his YouTube channel, as part of his Matt Chat show. In this first part of the interview, Kick talks about his efforts…