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Harvey Smith working on new games at Arkane Studios


It's been nearly a year since Harvey Smith, best known as the lead designer for the Deux Ex series, resigned from Midway's Austin studios after admitting publically about the issues he had with their BlackSite: Area 51 first person shooter. But fear not, fans of Smith. Harvey is working hard at the Austin, Texas offices of French developer Arkane Studios.

Gamasutra reports via a speech Smith made at the Austin Game Developers Conference this week that he is working on an unnamed first person RPG for Arkane along with a casual strategy game for Apple's iPhone. This kind of work is old hat not just to Smith but Arkane as well who released two such first person RPGs in the past; Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Nearly two years ago, Arkane announced plans for an ambitious game called The Crossing which was to seemless mix single and multiplayer gameplay. Since its inital reveal, no info on the game's progress has been announced.

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