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'I've spent my entire career trying to recreate the feeling I had when I played D&D for the first time,' says immersive sim godfather Warren Spector, with new game Thick as Thieves going multiplayer because 'you don't play D&D alone'

Spector described wanting to push the genre in new and interesting directions.

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Thick as Thieves is instantly one of my most-anticipated games, and every Thief fan should be backstabbing that wishlist button

If you love multiplayer games but couldn't care less about your kill-death ratio, Thick as Thieves might be your game.

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Deus Ex lead Warren Spector looked at immersive sims and "thought we could do better" – enter Thick as Thieves, a PvPvE "stealth action game, with a capital S and a capital A"

OtherSide Entertainment and Megabit's multiplayer heist game was shown at The Game Awards

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'Valorant' Meets 'Thief' in a Massive Game Teased for 2026

OtherSide Entertainment studio co-founder and chief creative officer Warren Spector and his co-founder Paul Neurath are asking with the announcement of their new game Thick As Thieves, slated for 2026.

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Deus Ex director Warren Spector thinks that 'if someone made Deus Ex today it might be perceived as a documentary,' so if he made a new one it would be pretty different

Please make a new one.

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Warren Spector found working on his cancelled Half-Life episode 'a little frustrating', but he'll be 'forever grateful' to Valve for keeping his studio alive

Junction Point's project was the first of two attempts to set an episode in Ravenholm.

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Warren Spector's Disney platformer finally came to PC, so where's the Deus Ex in Epic Mickey?

The moody, magic-soaked adaptation had a PC sensibility even when it was Wii exclusive.

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The PC Gaming Show turns 10: Looking back at the biggest moments from each show

Head back in time to the year 2015 as we celebrate the history of the PC Gaming Show.

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Can you guess which 2 mysterious games Deus Ex director Warren Spector secretly worked on, but decided not to be credited for?

The Epic Mickey director worked on a pair of games he decided to take his name off of, and he's been keeping them secret.

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24 years later, Warren Spector offers more details about Deus Ex's cut 'Denver airport conspiracy' mission that was 'so crazy no one would believe it'

Underground tunnels, baby holding pens, and, of course, lizard people.

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'90s PC gaming roundtable: Veterans behind LucasArts adventures, Prince of Persia, Broken Sword, and Deus Ex sharing stories

We gathered together a special group of developers who each have more than 30 years of experience making PC games to reminisce.

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Marvel's Blade director points to Baldur's Gate 3 studio as an example of the multiplayer "potential" of immersive sims

After Deathloop Dinga Bakaba considers the future of multiplayer imsims

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I tried two demos of machine learning AI NPCs, and they didn't convince me AI will lead to anything that immersive sims like Deus Ex haven't already done better

Does an NPC that reacts to anything I say into a microphone actually lead to more player agency?

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Warren Spector hails Epic Mickey as 'a real labor of love', says he's got an idea for the third entry but the day job makes that 'impossible'

"We created something that—like just about everything Disney—is evergreen."

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Warren Spector says his major contribution to System Shock was to stop 'it many times from getting killed'

"I don’t think it’s an overstatement to say that System Shock introduced the idea of environmental storytelling to the world."

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One of the OG System Shock's devs is streaming the remake: 'We see our feet, never coulda done that in 1994'

Marc LeBlanc was a longtime Looking Glass employee who worked on System Shock and Thief.

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System Shock was originally pitched as Sonic the Hedgehog in space

Though Warren Spector doesn't remember it.

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The System Shock remake is a surprisingly massive win for video game preservation

Opinion | The System Shock remake offers a tentative, if elaborate, solution to the video games preservation problem

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Redfall flexes its immersive sim heritage with a nod to one of gaming's longest-running Easter eggs

0451 is back, once again

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The history of the PC Gaming Show

Before the 10th annual PC Gaming Show on June 9, let's look back at how the show began and how it's grown since then.

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