{"id":42328,"date":"2019-05-18T16:19:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T15:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/?p=42328"},"modified":"2019-05-19T14:22:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T13:22:16","slug":"system-shock-3-otherside-is-hoping-for-a-new-publisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2019\/05\/18\/system-shock-3-otherside-is-hoping-for-a-new-publisher\/","title":{"rendered":"System Shock 3: OtherSide Is Hoping For A New Publisher"},"content":{"rendered":"
After Starbreeze has fallen on its knees due to its financial situation, it sold back its publishing rights of System Shock 3<\/strong><\/em> to the developers, and OtherSide<\/strong><\/em> continues to work on the game without a publisher behind them…<\/p>\n OtherSide<\/strong><\/em> has become independent once again, and at the moment, Warren Spector, a veteran game developer who has been a pivotal person in the creation of System Shock, is also working with them. He gave an interview to VGC<\/a><\/span>, where he said that there is a lot of interest from other publishers to pick System Shock 3<\/strong><\/em> up:<\/p>\n \u201eWe don\u2019t have a deal right now, but luckily OtherSide<\/strong><\/em> is flush enough that we\u2019re funding ourselves and can continue to do that for quite a while. Let\u2019s see what happens. We need somebody to say, ‘Yeah, let\u2019s talk deal terms,’ and we\u2019re in that kind of discussion with some folks. But we\u2019re not quite finished yet. The reality is, OtherSide<\/strong><\/em> is a company of developers who want to develop games. We don\u2019t particularly want to be a publisher. [OtherSide founder] Paul Neurath and I have worked with publishers before, Origin self-published when I was there, and we don\u2019t want to get into the market of distributing stuff. We\u2019re not ruling anything out, but at this point, we\u2019re looking for a publishing and funding partner,\u201d Spector said. He added that if they had to self-publish, it would be a \u201ehuge distraction,\u201d and they’d have to hire more people.<\/p>\n OtherSide Entertainment has to restore its name after their latest game, Underworld: Ascendant, being… far from a quality title. Perhaps this is the reason why they don’t tell us when System Shock 3<\/strong><\/em> will launch – we’re close to the point where we could expect the game to show up on the next-gen platforms, but the PC<\/strong><\/em>, the PlayStation 4<\/strong><\/em>, and the Xbox One<\/strong><\/em> seem the most realistic options at the moment.<\/p>\n