Warren Spector Archives

Surveillance pays off in Thick as Thieves.

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Why Thick As Thieves devs went with $5 price for a Thief-like game | Warren Spector and Jeff Hickman interview

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 25, 2026
6 min

Warren Spector has been making games for more than 40 years. But he’ll acknowledge that the market is really tough right now, and that’s...

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Four human players compete to rob a mansion and come back with the most riches.

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Warren Spector’s OtherSide Entertainment unveils Thick as Thieves 4-player stealth game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 13, 2024
5 min

OtherSide Entertainment and Megabit announced Thick As Thieves, an immersive stealth-action multiplayer game set for release in 2026. The game is coming out on...

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5 min

Warren Spector is chief creative officer at OtherSide Entertainment.

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GamesBeat Summit 2024: Warren Spector will reflect on 40 years in the industry

Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes
May 13, 2024
2 min

We’re excited to welcome Warren Spector to our GamesBeat Summit 2024 event at the Marina del Rey Marriott in Los Angeles later this month....

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2 min

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System Shock gets a reveal at PC Gaming Show

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 12, 2022
1 min

Warren Spector came on the PC Gaming Show to reveal details about the remake of System Shock. Spector was one of the key people...

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1 min

Warren Spector is chief creative director at OtherSide Entertainment.

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How Warren Spector got back to making his latest game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 12, 2022
18 min

It was a shock to the system in 2020 when OtherSide Entertainment, the video game studio founded by industry visionaries Paul Neurath and Warren...

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18 min

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Watch System Shock 3’s first gameplay teaser video

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 11, 2019
1 min

Developer OtherSide Entertainment is making progress on System Shock 3, and now the studio wants to prove it to you. The team released a...

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1 min

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Data-driven versus intuition-driven game design

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 19, 2017
23 min

When it comes to game design, we’ll find out one of these days if artificial intelligence can beat a human being at creativity. But...

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23 min

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The comprehensive interview with Uncharted 4 creators Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 27, 2016
28 min

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is one of the greatest video games of all time. It wraps up the four-part adventures of Nathan Drake,...

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28 min

Warren Spector at the Dice Summit in 2016.

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Warren Spector wants to mine new ’emergent gameplay’ from System Shock’s nostalgia

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 24, 2016
9 min

All of Warren Spector’s games over the past few decades have been about “emergent gameplay,” which give players choices so that they can solve...

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9 min

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System Shock revival lures Warren Spector away from academia and back to games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 17, 2016
2 min

Warren Spector, the veteran game developer who has been teaching video game creation for the last three years, is joining OtherSide Entertainment so that...

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2 min

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