Paul Neurath, Warren Spector, Tim Stellmach, Steve Pearsall, Terri Brosius, Stephen Russell, and a few other Looking Glass staffers have formed a new studio, Other Side Entertainment. Their first game is a sequel to Ultima Underworld 1 and 2.

For those unaware, Looking Glass Studios was the developer responsible for Ultima Underworld (obviously), Thief, and System Shock, which went out of business 15 years ago.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/othersidegames/underworld-ascendant

9 years ago

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This is AWESOME! great news! thanks for the heads up!

9 years ago
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Damn great news. They have made some of my favorite games.
looking forward to play the new Ultima

9 years ago
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This is amazing. Really excited for the work that they are doing. GREAT NEWS! Thanks Shodan!

9 years ago
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never played ultima but was a huge fan of thief. hope they'll do well enough to put out something like that again!

9 years ago
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Well, they've implied that Underworld will have stealth gameplay as a possibility.

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Oh wow... this is beautiful!

9 years ago
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Meh, I used to play Ultima Online for a time when I was a kid. Later on I moved to Siege Perilous, and stopped playing short after, lost all interest... The game was nice however. As well as Ultima single player RPGs. Still, I hoped for System Shock 3. Bioshock series might be the "spiritual descendant," but it's not System Shock :P

9 years ago
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Ultima Underworld has more in common with System Shock and Skyrim than it does with classic Ultima or Ultima Online.

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Sweetness! :D Looking Glass was such a quality developer, and I'd love to see them back in action again!

9 years ago
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warren spector isa the only name i remember from deus ex.

9 years ago
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WAITING FOR THESE AMAZING SOUNDTRACKS

9 years ago
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Already a backer.

9 years ago
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Wow. I've never backed anything on kickstarter before. This might be a first for me.

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I have the Ultima Underworld games on 3.5 inch floppy disks, along with the extras like the metal runes that have sharp edges. :D

I heard that Arx Fatalis was to be a third game, but couldn't get through to the company holding the IP.

9 years ago
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Yeah, they wanted it to be Underworld 3 but couldn't get the rights, so they just made their own take on it.

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I hope if they can get a third game out, they repeat the unsafe bonuses. :D

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