Nightdive clarifies the status of the System Shock saga with the third installment in the air

The VGC environment has spoken to the developers and they claim that System Shock 3 is solely dependent on Tencent.

This is a fondly remembered franchise He said they still have two titles to be released, but they don’t have much information yet. The VGC environment has the following details: to talk original System Shock, the developers of Nightdive and explained the situation Around upcoming projects like System Shock 3.

System Shock 3 trusts only TencentOtherside Entertainment had been developing it for several years, but sold the rights to the Chinese giant in 2020. VGC states that a LinkedIn analysis shows that the team abandoned the project a long time ago.

Tencent owns the rights to System Shock, 3,4 and 5, and we own the rights to remakes of the first game and the second game.Stephen Kick, managing director of Nightdive, explained to VGC: the situation in which the epic finds itself: “When we got the franchise rights, we licensed the third game to Otherside. Later, they sold the rights to Tencent. This Have at the moment third game rightsand we have the right to do so. remake of the first game and potentially a remake of the second game. That’s pretty much the current situation.”

He also spoke about the future of the franchise, which is held by Tencent despite Nightdive owning the IP rights: “Technically, I think so. can do 4 and 5 but they would have to do 3 first. Let’s see,” Kick says.

Nightdive is currently developing a remake of the first System Shock in development since 2016. What we learned months ago is that System Shock Remake development is almost complete, but still no release date. On the other hand, the scriptwriter for your drama is already known and this is last Mortal Kombat movie.

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