Whereas the System Shock remake is on observe for a 2022 launch, the sport’s long-troubled threequel System Shock 3 stays in limbo.
Talking at Gamescom 2022, Nightdive CEO Stephen Kick confirmed they personal the rights to remake the primary and probably the second sport, the third sport’s rights are actually owned by Tencent.
“After we initially acquired the rights to the franchise, we licensed the rights for the third sport to Warren and Paul [Neurath] at Otherside,” Kick stated to VGC. “They then subsequently bought their rights to Tencent.”
He added, “So Tencent at present has the rights to the third sport, and now we have the rights to do the remake of the primary sport and doubtlessly a remake of the second sport. That’s just about the place it stands proper now.”
Collection creator and System Shock 3 inventive adviser Warren Spector stated related issues prior, saying “there’s not far more to say at this level” on the sequel. He famous it’s as much as Tecent to “say what they need to say” on the sport.
System Shock 3 was initially introduced manner again in 2015, and it modified fingers between former writer Starbreeze Leisure – who bumped into monetary issues – after which obtained purchased up Chinese language media large Tencent. Spector’s group hasn’t labored on the sport since 2019, however Otherside did beforehand say Tencent “can be taking the System Shock franchise ahead.”
That’s primarily all we all know for now – and whereas Tencent is throwing round cash as traditional, it stays to be seen in the event that they need to spend money on the System Shock franchise.