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‘System Shock’ Remake Back On Track; Release Pushed Back to 2020
Last month, it was reported that the development of the System Shock remake was being put on hold while the team “reassess [their] path”. Well, at GDC 2018, Nightdive Studios CEO Stephen Kick reported that things have started back up with the development.
“We understood based on the backer feedback, especially, that we weren’t going in the right direction with the game, what we promised to them,” Kick said. “That’s what really caused the shift in what we’re doing now, which is going back to what we’d established and represented with the Unity demo.” Nightdive’s business development director Larry Kuperman also elaborated on the team’s straying from the original goal, stating that as the team geared up and began moving forward with the project they had begun running into feature creep.
“All of those things like ‘you know what would really be cool, how we might reinterpret this’,” explained Kuperman. “Various people wanted to put their imprint on it. As this process evolved over a period of time, it grew in complexity, and it veered away from this original representation. That doesn’t mean that interpretation would’ve been bad, but it wouldn’t have been true to the System Shock vision.”
While it’s great that the team is back at it, the question is: When is the game coming out? According to Kuperman, the team is going to ship “exactly the game that was promised, with as much of the features that were promised as we can, in a timeframe that will get it out as fast as we can. Our expectation is probably Q1 of 2020.”
“Q1 of 2020”? Well, at the very least they’re back on track. I suppose we’ll see just what Warren Spector and the team working on System Shock 3 have in store to tide us over.
We have the Jason Universe to thank for the recent return of Jason Voorhees, with the short film Sweet Revenge and Jason’s arrival in Dead by Daylight helping to bring the hockey mask-wearing horror icon back into our lives. What else is planned, you ask?
In a chat with Variety this week, Jason Universe’s Robbie Barsamian teases that everything we’ve seen up to this point is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Jason’s return.
“We’ve been busy behind the scenes laying the foundation that everyone is finally starting to see come to life, but this is just the tip of the iceberg,” Barsamian teases.
“We have a thrilling lineup of new projects that we can’t wait to share more details on soon.”
Barsamian also notes during the chat with Variety, “We want to give fans fresh takes on what they love most about Jason and continue to expand his world in authentic ways that resonate with horror fans today.” One of those expansions will take the form of the upcoming Peacock and A24 series “Crystal Lake,” which stars Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees.
“The Crystal Lake TV series will take fans back in time to tell the story of how Pamela Voorhees came to be the mother of all slashers,” Barsamian tells Variety this week.
“Crystal Lake” premieres October 15 on Peacock.
Callum Vinson (“Chucky”) is playing young Jason in “Crystal Lake,” which will tell the origin story of the masked slasher who has stalked the grounds of Crystal Lake for decades.
Last year, the Jason Universe team had teased that a new movie and a new video game are top priorities for the near future. But at this time we have no updates on either front.
Stay tuned for more from the Jason Universe.
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