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Epic's Tim Sweeney on a studio dying: "This isn't a sad day"

Epic's Tim Sweeney on a studio dying: "This isn't a sad day". His own words from May 2000: "Looking Glass spent lots of money making innovative games that never sold well". He reposted them on 23 October, two days after EA closed BioWare, calling this "the crash in the game business". Looking Glass made the original System Shock and Thief, and closed the same month he wrote it
  • His own words from May 2000: "Looking Glass spent lots of money making innovative games that never sold well"
  • He reposted them on 23 October, two days after EA closed BioWare, calling this "the crash in the game business"
  • Looking Glass made the original System Shock and Thief, and closed the same month he wrote it

Reported by Tim Sweeney's own posts, 23 Oct 2026; GamesRadar+. We are repeating their reporting rather than claiming it.

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