Warren Spector breaks silence and finally implies his System Shock 3 is dead
videogameschronicle.comWarren Spector has implied in a new interview that his version of the long in development System Shock 3 is dead, although he stopped short of outright confirming it.
As part of a new interview with GamesBeat, the acclaimed game designer behind DeusEx has briefly spoken about his version of System Shock 3, which his studio OtherSide Entertainment had helmed for a few years.
However, in 2020, OtherSide suffered widespread layoffs.
When asked about what has been happening at OtherSide and the circumstances around the ending of development on System Shock 3, Spector said:
“We released a statement last year. There’s not much more to say at this point. Tencent is taking the franchise forward. It’ll be up to them to say what they want to say. There’s not much clarification I can give you.”
That statement Spector is referring to followed VGC’s discovery that the ownership of System Shock 3’s website has been transferred to Tencent Holdings.
The brief statement, which was posted to Twitter in early 2020 read:
“1/2 We are happy to announce that Tencent will be taking the #SystemShockfranchise forward.”
It continued in another Tweet: “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.”
When asked by GamesBeat how long Spector had worked on System Shock 3, he responded:
“We worked on it in 2018 and 2019. That was it.”. He also revealed that OtherSide Entertainment had grown to 17 developers at the height of the game’s development and head left its office.
GamesBeat goes on to ask about the downsizing that occurred in light of the ending of System Shock 3’s development.
“There was
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