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Nightdive Updates ‘System Shock’ Remake Backers with Screens, Sounds and Source Code!
After the announcement that Nightdive has put development of the System Shock remake temporarily on hold, then resumed development with a new release date, we now have the first update via the game’s Kickstarter page, along with a cool bonus.
In the update, the team recap the situation that led to the suspension of development, as well as updating backers (and us) about some other happenings. Those happenings involved Nightdive “[making] some tough decisions” which resulted in letting go of some of the developers on the project. What’s left now is “a concentrated team that consists of the original developers who worked on the Unity demo”. The team also announced that in September, Nightdive will be having the highest tier backers privately test the game, at which point they feel the game will be “fully playable, from start to finish”.
In addition, the team have released not only new screenshots showcasing the back-to-the-start look of the game (which you can find in the above link), but they’ve also posted some of the music to be included in the game (which you can find below). Lastly for the update, the team will begin streaming regularly on Twitch to show progress on the game.
And for that bonus? Nightdive have revealed that they now have the source code of the original game (technically, the Power Mac version of System Shock: Enhanced Edition), courtesy of OtherSide Entertainment. You can grab the code right here, although given that this is the Power Mac version, you’ll be needing an emulator get it going. Nightdive states that they’ve been updating this code and “plan to release a new version of System Shock: Enhanced Edition as well as the code in the near future”.
Again, it’s a bummer that we’ll have to wait until 2020 to get our hands on the game, but at least Nightdive is trying to make up for the setbacks.
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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