‘System Shock 3 development team has been evicted after no new publisher’

OtherSide Entertainment seems to have put the development of System Shock 3 on hold. Prominent members of the development team confirm that they no longer work at the studio. It seems that OtherSide cannot find a publisher for the game.

The writer and director, lead programmer, lead designer and other developers of System Shock 3 have confirmed that they have left OtherSide in recent months, according to VideoGamesChronicle. The studio has been looking for a new publisher for the game for a year, but seems to have not found one.

Warren Spector, the game’s creative director and producer of the first System Shock game and Deus Ex, said last year that many publishers were interested and talks were underway. An anonymous developer now tells VGC that the entire team that worked on the game is no longer employed by OtherSide. The studio has not yet responded to VGC’s story.

Initially, Starbreeze owned the rights to release the game. The Swedish company invested 11 million euros in the development. Starbreeze has serious financial problems and in order to overcome these, it sold the rights to several games, including those of System Shock 3. The rights thus returned to developer OtherSide Entertainment in February last year.