--- description: One of Underworld's co-creators, just announced he's making a new Underworld game, dubbed Underworld Ascension. title: Ultima Underworld Creator Launches OtherSide Entertainment image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1fc362a042dc05d/69869a1a06f2c14dfc32fbd9/otherside-entertainment-logo.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # There's a New _Underworld_ Game in Town, but It's Not an Ultima by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 1, 2014 4:27 PM CUT  OtherSide Entertainment by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 1, 2014 4:27 PM CUT If you never played _Ultima Underworld_ back in 1992, you arrived late to the party. _Doom_, schmoom: id Software’s slick little demon-shooter was a high-octane shooting gallery, an endless hallway filled with closet-monsters. _Doom_ won the popularity contest a year-and-a-half later, but _Ultima Underworld_ was miles ahead gameplay-wise: something else entirely, and a portal to somewhere else that actually felt like a world simulation instead of a technology showcase. Sadly, _Ultima Underworld_ isn’t coming back — EA owns the rights to _Ultima_, and that’s that. But one of the original game’s co-creators, Paul Neurath, just announced he’s founded a new studio in Boston, OtherSide Entertainment, and he’s making a new _Underworld_ game, dubbed _Underworld Ascension_. Don’t worry, it’s no relation to that other [poor, unfortunate game](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima%5FIX:%5FAscension "undefined") with the word “Ascension” in its title. And don’t let OtherSide’s [initial dispatch](http://www.othersideentertainment.com "undefined") confuse you when they say they’re “bringing back the classic _Ultima Underworld_ franchise.” They’re bringing back the spirit of the _Underworld_ franchise, true, but as noted above, not the _Ultima_ part. And that’s all we know at this point, beyond promises to show “more and more … in the weeks to come.” I _do_ like that the name OtherSide’s a play on Looking Glass (Neurath’s original studio, responsible as well for _Thief_, _System Shock_, _Flight Unlimited_ and _Terra Nova_). And Neurath’s apparently pulled in people who worked on the original _Underworld_ games, so the promise, at least in terms of street cred, is there. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2945908/underworld-ascension/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2945908/underworld-ascension/"},"headline":"There's a New Underworld Game in Town, but It's Not an Ultima","datePublished":"2014-07-01T16:27:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:02:41.323Z","description":"Paul Neurath co-founded Looking Glass Studios in 1990 and helped create the groundbreaking Ultima Underworld series. Now he's launching a new studio, dubbed OtherSide Entertainment, with plans to rejuvenate the Underworld franchise.","url":"https://time.com/2945908/underworld-ascension/","keywords":["Tech","Video Games"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1fc362a042dc05d/69869a1a06f2c14dfc32fbd9/otherside-entertainment-logo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt Peckham","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1fc362a042dc05d/69869a1a06f2c14dfc32fbd9/otherside-entertainment-logo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"otherside-entertainment-logo","caption":"","creditText":"OtherSide Entertainment","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2945908/underworld-ascension/","name":"There's a New Underworld Game in Town, but It's Not an Ultima"}}]}] ```