{"id":58365,"date":"2022-08-27T22:46:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T22:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/system-shocks-owner-says-its-now-up-to-tencent-if-sequels-get-made\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T22:46:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T22:46:28","slug":"system-shocks-owner-says-its-now-up-to-tencent-if-sequels-get-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/system-shocks-owner-says-its-now-up-to-tencent-if-sequels-get-made\/","title":{"rendered":"System Shock’s owner says it’s now up to Tencent if sequels get made"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nightdive Studios, the owner of the System Shock IP, has clarified the status of the long-missing-in-action System Shock 3, claiming that it’s now up to Tencent if the sequel gets made.<\/p>\n

System Shock 3 had spent several years in development at Austin, Texas-based Otherside Entertainment \u2013 \u200b\u200bthe studio helmed by original SS developers Paul Neurath and Warren Spector \u2013 before disappearing from the public arena completely in 2020.<\/p>\n

Eventually, a statement was published on Otherside’s website claiming that Tencent would be \u201ctaking the System Shock franchise forward\u201d.<\/p>\n

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<\/svg>System Shock – Trailer – Future Games Show Gamescom 2022<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

However, there has been no clarification in the two years since on what exactly this means for the future of Otherside’s game, despite an analysis of LinkedIn suggesting that virtually all of System Shock’s development team has long since left.<\/p>\n

Speaking to VGC at Gamescom, Nightdive CEO Stephen Kick claimed that the rights to the third game, which it had originally granted to Otherside, had subsequently been sold on to the Chinese conglomerate.<\/p>\n

It’s now up to Tencent whether a third game gets made, he told VGC.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we originally acquired the rights to the franchise, we licensed the rights for the third game to Warren and Paul [Neurath] at Otherside. They then subsequently sold their rights to Tencent,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kick clarified that it’s currently down to Tencent if the third game gets made at all, and claimed he did not know if either Spector or Neurath were involved in such a project. \u201cI honestly don’t know. I know Paul and Warren are still making games, but that’s as much as I know right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tencent could also make additional System Shock sequels in the future if were to develop the third game and decide to continue, he said. \u201cI think they technically could do 4 and 5 as well, but they’d have to do 3 first. So, we’ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nightdive is currently developing it’s long-coming System Shock remake, which has been in development since 2016 and still has no release date. The game was, however, playable at Gamescom this week.<\/p>\n

According to CEO and game director Kick, both Warren Spector and Paul Neurath have been providing regular feedback on the remake, so both men are involved in the franchise in that capacity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey’ve been wonderful,\u201d he said. \u201cWe’ve been providing builds to them periodically and getting their feedback, and they’ve been giving us a lot. This was their baby, and it’s been entrusted to us. We’re just lucky to have them as a sounding board to let us know when maybe we’ve gone too far or maybe not far enough. We’ve definitely been applying that feedback.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite uncertainly around Tencent’s ownership of the sequel rights, Kick said there are \u201cdefinitely\u201d plans for more System Shock from Nightdive, \u201cwhether that be a remake of the second game or some cross-media stuff\u201d such as a planned live-action series from streaming platform Binge.<\/p>\n

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Nightdive Studios, the owner of the System Shock IP, has clarified the status of the long-missing-in-action System Shock 3, claiming that it’s now up to Tencent if the sequel gets made. System Shock 3 had spent several years in development at Austin, Texas-based Otherside Entertainment \u2013 \u200b\u200bthe studio helmed by original SS developers Paul Neurath …<\/p>\n

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