Warren Spector’s OtherSide Entertainment stopped work on the highly anticipated System Shock 3 in 2019, Spector confirmed in a recent interview with GamesBeat . The announcement definitively ends hopes that Spector’s studio might still be working with new publisher Tencent on the particular follow-up to the 1994 PC gaming classic and its 1999 sequel .
The System Shock 3 project was first announced way back within 2015 . Spector—known for producing the original Program 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 plus joined the team at OtherSide Entertainment to work on typically the planned sequel.
But the project started to show public signs of trouble inside early 2019, when OtherSide had to buy back the publishing rights to the game from Starbreeze Entertainment. Though OtherSide was able in order to show the public demo of System Shock 3 later that year , by early 2020, the entire development team was reportedly “no longer employed” by OtherSide.