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Game veterans launches crowdfunding campaign for Underworld Ascendant

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Paul Neurath, a pioneer of games such as Thief and System Shock, has formed a new game studio in Boston called OtherSide Entertainment. And now he is launching a crowdfunding campaign for what he calls the spiritual successor of the Ultima Underworld franchise.

OtherSide Entertainment, a new independent games studio with a small team, is raising money to fund Underworld Ascendant, a PC fantasy role-playing game aimed at those who have some nostalgia for the fantasy Underworld franchise, which began in 1992. The series sold more than 1 million copies, which is large by 1990s standards. Neurath hopes to raise $600,000.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.