Disney acquires Warren Spector's Junction Point Studios
by Richard Mitchell 
{ Jul 12th 2007 at 9:10PM }
During its E3 press conference, Disney Interactive Studios announced that they had acquired Warren Spector's Junction Point Studios. Spector took the stage to discuss the news. As Spector told it, he jumped at the chance to work with Disney. According to Spector, his original career choices were either to go into video games (good move Warren) or become an imagineer for Disney, as he was inspired by the works of its founder, Walt Disney. Spector even wrote his masters thesis on cartoons, apparently. Pulling Junction Point into the Disney fold is part of Disney's new game initiative, which involves both leveraging well-known franchises and creating new IP. No doubt, Disney expects a name like Warren Spector (creator of games like Deus Ex) to bolster their credibility as a legitimate publisher.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
hvnlysoldr @ Jul 12th 2007 9:15PM
Really nice. Maybe finally they can make decent games of their licenses like Aladdin did. Also he could write a sort of serious Disney game such as Kingdom Hearts, well compared to Disney KH is serious.
Daniel @ Jul 12th 2007 10:15PM
Interesting. One usually associates Spector with much (much, much) more adult subject matter (can't see Disney getting behind the "terrorists are the good guys" story of DX2). But the good news is that maybe he'll now have the cash and support to make the kind of huge and complicated games he's always wanted to do, without getting stymied by a rushed publisher.
Wait, did I just suggest that working for Disney would be *more* artistically satisfying? Kill me now.
josh @ Jul 12th 2007 10:34PM
actually he already has multiple IPs that were proposed many months ago(disney related)... glad to see this finally go through because one of those ideas is pretty badass.
waynski1457 @ Jul 12th 2007 11:01PM
does this mean that deus ex 3 will be disney related. i forsee a kingdom hearts-esque mixture.....
lol, jk. this is awesome and all but i still want my deus ex 3!
Mark Mifsud @ Jul 13th 2007 2:37PM
This is terrible!
Mickey Mouse gets to decide what goes into Deus Ex 3!
iliarules @ Jul 13th 2007 3:18PM
Great. Now the only way we'll see a Deus Ex 3, will be if they make it like crappy Kingdom Hearts or something. Nano-augmented Mickey Mouse. Just awesome. I'm really sad to see WS's career go down the tubes like this because he wants to make edutainment games for Disney.
Darius K. @ Jul 20th 2007 12:32PM
Eidos owns the IP rights to Deus Ex. Not Warren Spector. The only way he could be involved in a new Deus Ex game was if Eidos sold him the rights, or if he started working for them somehow.