The lacking in motion System Shock 3 remains to be (opens in new tab) completely within the fingers of Tencent. That is in accordance with Nightdive Studios CEO Stephen Kick, who in an an interview with VGC (opens in new tab) stated that the rights to make System Shock 3 (opens in new tab), initially licensed to OtherSide Leisure, had been offered on to and stay with Tencent.
“They then subsequently offered their rights to Tencent,” Kick defined. “So Tencent at present has the rights to the third sport, and we now have the rights to do the remake of the primary sport and probably a remake of the second sport. That’s just about the place it stands proper now.”
Tencent hasn’t stated something because the rights acquisition. It was unclear if OtherSide was working alongside Tencent for a bit, however we discovered this yr that System Shock creator Warren Spector’s OtherSide leisure hasn’t labored on System Shock 3 since 2019. (opens in new tab)
“So Tencent at present has the rights to the third sport, and we now have the rights to do the remake of the primary sport and probably a remake of the second sport. That’s just about the place it stands proper now,” stated Kick. “I believe they technically may do 4 and 5 as nicely, however they’d need to do 3 first. So, we’ll see.”
Nightdive, in the meantime, remains to be cracking alongside on its remake of System Shock. They dropped a brand new trailer (opens in new tab) this week, and a construct is playable at Gamescom. Kick additionally stated at Gamescom that System Shock creators Warren Spector and Paul Neurath have been offering suggestions on Nightdive’s sport builds all through improvement.