System Shock 3 is up to Tencent, confirms Nightdive Studios
Don’t hold your breath for it, though.
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The missing in action System Shock 3 isstillentirely in the hands of Tencent. That’s according to Nightdive Studios CEO Stephen Kick, who in an an interview withVGCsaid that the rights to makeSystem Shock 3, originally licensed to OtherSide Entertainment, had been sold on to and remain with Tencent.
“They then subsequently sold their rights to Tencent,” Kick explained. “So Tencent currently has the rights to the third game, and we have the rights to do the remake of the first game and potentially a remake of the second game. That’s pretty much where it stands right now.”
Tencent hasn’t said anything since the rights acquisition. It was unclear if OtherSide was working alongside Tencent for a bit, but we learned this year that System Shock creator Warren Spector’s OtherSide entertainmenthasn’t worked on System Shock 3 since 2019.
“So Tencent currently has the rights to the third game, and we have the rights to do the remake of the first game and potentially a remake of the second game. That’s pretty much where it stands right now,” said Kick. “I think they technically could do 4 and 5 as well, but they’d have to do 3 first. So, we’ll see.”
Nightdive, meanwhile, is still cracking along on its remake of System Shock. They dropped a newtrailerthis week, and a build is playable at Gamescom. Kick also said at Gamescom that System Shock creators Warren Spector and Paul Neurath have been providing feedback on Nightdive’s game builds throughout development.
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Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he’s not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.
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