The original game's concept artist Robb Waters has returned for this project, as has the original voice actress for AI antagonist Shodan, Terri Brosius. Fader noted on the PlayStation Blog that former Obsidian staffers like Chris Avellone, Jessica Johnson Kevin Manning and Dan Rubalcaba have all been recruited for this celebration of late 90s first-person sci-fi gaming. Night Dive has greatly expanded its staff to take on this ambitious project and it added many Fallout: New Vegas devs to its roster.

'After a few weeks and lotttts of emails, we are officially on track for bringing System Shock to the PS4!'

'After we saw the overwhelming demand for PS4, we reshuffled our priorities and focused on talking to Sony about making that happen,' said project director Jason Fader in a Kickstarter update. The PS4 version came about due to popular demand. By late 2021, they had also found a publisher called Prime Matter.Night Dive Studios' highly anticipated System Shock reboot was originally only slated for PC and Xbox One but now it's confirmed for PS4 as well.Īiming for a Q1 2018 release, the System Shock re-imagining has surpassed its $900k Kickstarter goal with a current tally of $1,077,745 and it still has another week left before its 28th July deadline. While more release dates were announced and missed, development seemed to be on track after 2020, with no reports of development restarting again. They also announced a 2020 release date at this time. Later that year at GDC, Kick explained that development had restarted with a new team due to feature creep, and the cope of the game blowing out of proportion. Development seemed to continue, but in February 2018, the Nightdive CEO announced the game was put on hold.

The goal was met less than a month later, and it went on to raise a total of $1.35 million by the end, with the additional funding set to be used for macOS and Linux versions.Īfter the Kickstarter, the game had a December 2017 release date, but this was pushed back during that year when Nightdive announced they would be developing the game un Unreal Engine 4 instead of Unity, essentially restarting development, which also saw Avellone leave the project. Nightdive later began a Kickstarter campaign in June 2016 to secure more funding for the game, with a total goal of $900,000. Veteran writer and designer, Chris Avellone, was only confirmed to be involved at this point. The remake of System Shock was first announced in November 2015, with development taking place in the Unity engine for a PC and Xbox One release.

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