Harvey Smith Explains What Most Games Are Missing And Why He’s Still Making Them: ‘It’s An Act Of Rebellion To Try To Do Something Hopeful In Times Like This’
Kotaku | 02.09.2026 23:00
Last month, Dishonored creator Harvey Smith and Arkane’s former production director Ben Horne announced that they had established a new studio, Black Pony Immersive, with the sole purpose of creating a new immersive sim in the lineage of Deus Ex, Thief, Prey, and System Shock. Insistent on learning more about how the studio came to be and its ambitions for the future, we sat down with Smith and Horne to talk about defying the odds in a precarious gaming industry, the rebellious act of developing in a genre that publishers are afraid to touch, and the deliciousness of mystery. Oh, and what it’s like when you have a limited budget for chairs.
