That's where things stood until Saturday, when Spector told VentureBeat point-blank that OtherSide 'worked on in 20.

That statement followed an earlier message from OtherSide Marketing VP Walter Somol insisting, 'We're still here,' which gave fans a glimmer of hope in OtherSide's continued involvement. 'As we are allowed to make more information public, we will do so.' 'But we can't speak on it much further than that at this point in time,' she added. In a message on the OtherSide forums at the time, community manager Alyssa Marshall said that the studio was 'still involved' despite the Tencent acquisition. That vague announcement left OtherSide's continued involvement in the project unclear, to say the least. A few days later, OtherSide announced via tweet that Chinese gaming giant Tencent 'will be taking the System Shock franchise forward,' adding that 'as a smaller Indie studio, it had been challenging for us to carry the project on our own. We believe Tencent's deep capabilities and expertise as a leading game company will bring the franchise to new heights.' Advertisement Though OtherSide was able to show a public demo of System Shock 3 later that year, by early 2020, the entire development team was reportedly 'no longer employed' by OtherSide.īy May 2020, though, Spector was saying publicly that OtherSide still had plenty of funds to pursue development on its own and was reportedly courting interest from prospective publishers. Spector-known for producing the original System Shock as well as his work on Deus Ex, Thief, and Epic Mickey-made a splash in 2016 when he left academia to return to game development and joined the team at OtherSide Entertainment to work on the planned sequel.īut the project started to show signs of trouble in early 2019, when OtherSide had to buy back the publishing rights to the game from Starbreeze Studios. The System Shock 3 project was first announced way back in 2015. The announcement definitively ends hopes that Spector's studio might still be working with new publisher Tencent on the follow-up to the 1994 PC gaming classic and its 1999 sequel. Warren Spector's OtherSide Entertainment stopped work on the highly anticipated System Shock 3 in 2019, Spector confirmed in a recent interview with GamesBeat.

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