Gilpin’s role in Jaws 2 came in the wake of the young actor’s debut in the TV series “Thunder” and the feature film Where’s Willie?, and in subsequent years he would go on to appear in the TV shows “CHiPS,” “Fantasy Island,” “Flying High,” “Silver Spoons” and “China Beach.” THR notes in their report today, “Gilpin died Saturday in Dallas after a long battle with glioblastoma, his older sister, Frasier actress Peri Gilpin, announced.”Īs a child actor, Marc Gilpin played Martin Brody’s (Roy Scheider) young son Sean Brody in Jaws 2 (1978), the very first sequel to Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster horror classic. And while the visuals understandably haven't aged well, understanding where games like BioShock and Deus Ex started is an important historical adventure worth your time.Best known to horror fans for his role in the horror sequel Jaws 2, actor Marc Gilpin has passed away this week at the age of 56 after a long battle with glioblastoma, THR reports. You can tune into that stream here at 9 a.m. Night Dive founder and CEO Stephen Kick will sit down with former Looking Glass Studios creative director Paul Neurath to discuss System Shock's place in gaming history.

Update: If you're interested in learning more about System Shock and Night Dive's work bringing the classic back, there's a Twitch stream on September 23. It’s available for $10 (currently discounted to $8) on GoG. For nostalgia junkies, the Enhanced Edition also includes the original version.

System Shock: Enhanced Edition has been updated by Night Dive Studios for high definition resolutions (up to 1024x768), includes mouse look support (not featured in the original), and fixes bugs from the original release. Its own sequel, the Deus Ex series, and later the BioShock franchise expanded and evolved this concept. Originally released in 1994, System Shock laid the groundwork for choice in video games. That changes today, as the enhanced edition of Irrational Games’ and Looking Glass Studios' groundbreaking title lands on GoG today. While System Shock 2 has been available for contemporary PC and Mac hardware for a number of years, its predecessor hadn’t been given the spit and polish treatment.

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