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OtherSide Entertainment, the studio behind System Shock 3, has issued an update on the project which was reportedly on the rocks (via VGC).
Earlier this year, an anonymous OtherSide employee revealed that the game was “critically behind” on its schedule, and confirmed that the team was “no longer employed.” This tallied with what a former community manager had said previously about the project, although the company itself had not acknowledged the reports. Troublingly, OtherSide’s social channels have not been active for some time, and according to LinkedIn, only four people are working for the developer at the moment.
@notaxation I work in the same building as that System Shock 3 Dev. Sorry to hear about them shutting down it has been empty for a little bit. pic.twitter.com/7xHuFY9oNv
— Jay Harrison Price (@Jharrisonprice) February 18, 2020
Now, OtherSide’s marketing and business development vice president Walter Somol has published an update on the studio’s situation. “We’re still here,” began Somol. “We’re all working remotely right now, probably like most of you. Our new concept is coming along nicely and we are really excited about it. We have [a] cool and we think distinctive art style for it and we have that and gameplay coming together in UE4.” He qualified that he “just can’t really say anything about” the studio’s present project, but added that OtherSide hopes its community are “staying safe and healthy in these unfortunate times.”
It’s cheering to know that OtherSide hasn’t gone under, but the absence of System Shock 3 from Somol’s update has been noticed. Another anonymous source on Reddit claims that the game is “more or less in limbo,” because there is “no studio developing the game, but there is still a core team that still exists, but they’re more like publishers or IP holders at this point.” Of course, we aren’t able to say for certain until OtherSide offers more information on System Shock 3. We will keep you in the loop once that happens.
System Shock 3 is on its way to PC in 2020.
