System Shock

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Swiss Officially Neutral On SHODAN Vs. GLaDOS

2:00PM October 1, 2011 | Owen Good

Switzerland’s public broadcasting company this week released that advertisement below — “The Phony Wars” — to tout the service’s new iOS and Android apps. And, Swiss to the last, they declare their neutrality between those two platforms. More »


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It’s Like System Shock, Only Without The Evil Green Lady

8:30PM December 10, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

Prominence is a first-person game with no shooting. Just clicking and problem solving and wandering around the deserted corridors of a science-fiction facility. More »


The 10 Best Video Game Characters

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2:00PM August 10, 2010 | David Wildgoose

We remember the great games we’ve played. But sometimes it’s the characters we played as or those we encountered that linger longest in the memory. More »


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The Last Hours Of One Of Video Games’ Greatest Developers

6:30PM June 28, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

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Mike Chrzanowski, who used to work for PC developers Looking Glass, sent us these videos over the weekend that show the final hours of one of the greatest studios this industry has ever seen. More »


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System Shock 2′s Surprise Ending — For Ken Levine, Anyway

10:30AM January 31, 2010 | Owen Good

Widely acclaimed when it released in 1999, System Shock 2′s cinematic conclusion nonetheless disappointed Irrational Games creative chief Ken Levine. The reason: The video that was shot wasn’t anything like what he had scripted. More »


Monday Musings: Shooting For The Future

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1:00PM July 13, 2009 | David Wildgoose

Apparently the future of shooters is RPGs. Or says Cliff Bleszinski. And it seems like Bioware’s Ray Muzyka agrees with him. Have they both gone mad? More »


In Real Life

GlaDOS & Shodan, Sitting In A Tree…

10:00PM January 26, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

OK, maybe not a tree. More like a tangled mess of cables, wiring and cold steel. And maybe not kissing. What they’re doing looks a little more “after dark” than a childhood rhyme could manage…

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Levine Wouldn’t Say No To More System Shock

12:20PM August 14, 2008 | Luke Plunkett

We wouldn’t say “no” to more System Shock. You wouldn’t say not to more System Shock. You know who else wouldn’t say no to more System Shock? Ken Levine, who told VG247 “Would I turn my nose up at another round with Shodan? No”. Hardly a firm statement of intent, but SS fans will take what they can get these days. Course, there’s always the tricky issue of the System Shock rights being owned by a company that’s not Levine’s current employers 2K, but as Fallout 3 has shown, where there’s a will, there’s often a way. So who knows. Maybe some day in the distant future System Shock fans can stop complaining about wanting a new System Shock game and start complaining about the new System Shock game.

Levine on System Shock 3: “Would I turn my nose up at another round with Shodan? No” [VG247][Image]

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