System Shock 2

Warren Spector, the man behind the Deus Ex,  System Shock, and Epic Mickey series (to name a few), has been picked to receive the Lifetime Achievement trophy at the 12th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards...

Interested in adding signed copies of Planescape: Torment, System Shock 2, Anachronox, Fallout: New Vegas, Star Wars: KotOR II, Neverwinter Nights 2, Alpha Protocol, Freedom Force, and BioShock to your video game collection? Yeah, I am too.

GameBanshee is pleased to announce the launch of a new subsite dedicated to Looking Glass Studios' System Shock 2, which comes complete with an annotated walkthrough, a character creation guide, skill and psi power lists, O/S upgrades, audio log summaries, enemy profiles, an extensive equipment section, and a whole lot more.

It is common for studios of Irrationals longevity to lose or misplace assets, due to hardware failures, moves across town, and the inevitable ravages of entropy. Finding these assets years later is like stumbling upon buried treasure on an island you discovered by accident. Irrational Games just dug up a particularly precious artifact: a sketchbook from System Shock 2. Were talking original artwork on honest-to-goodness paper no Wacom tablets or Cintiq monitors, but paper with the original coffee stains still intact.

From the dystopian corridors of BioShock's subterranean paradise to the Strogg-infested space stations found throughout the Quake franchise, First Person Shooters have found countless ways to establish themselves as rich, enjoyable experiences, capturing the hearts and trigger fingers of gamers worldwide. Even if it's just blasting away wave after wave of demons in Blood, or perhaps saving mankind from itself as you traverse Half-Life 2's City 17, the FPS genre has proven itself time and time again.

2K Boston's Ken Levine has told VG247 that he loves the world of System Shock and would be interested in a third game in the EA-owned series if the opportunity arose.

Gnome's Lair has just posted a collection of mods and fixes, that will help you majorly upgrade System Shock 2 and run it under Windows XP. Enhancements include new textures, better sound, new 3d models and bug fixes.

Monday 31 July 2006 A sequel to System Shock 2, the deep-space shoot-and-survive game, is unlikely ever to appear according to Ken Levine, lead designer at Irrational Games, who is currently working on BioShock. The licence for the series is owned by Electronic Arts and fans had hoped to see EA create a third System Shock, but Levine says, "EA just didn't give a shit about that game." Levine explains the situation so far: "I did a story design for System Shock 3, and they [EA] had it, and