I pitched the rights-holder with the focus being on the digital distribution of System Shock 2 and–as much to my surprise as anyone’s, possibly–here we are today.

Night Dive Studios brought System Shock 2 to Steam in May 2013. The short version is that negotiations began in October of last year. (trade name: Nightdive Studios) is an American video game developer. Stephen Kick (Night Dive): The rights are still held in a very complicated tangle and going into all of it makes for very dry reading. What negotiations, with any parties involved, have taken place in order to secure digital distribution rights? When Looking Glass ceased to be, the rights passed to Meadowbrook Insurance Group and without both, the series cannot be revived. As I understand it – and I may well be wrong – Looking Glass retained the rights while EA held the trademark. RPS: The story of the System Shock rights and trademark has frustrated people for years. The answer to the site’s question to Stephen Kick of Night Dive Studios on how they managed to secure the rights and bring the whole thing to fruition is pretty interesting: The actual website for GOG just has a countdown timer, but Rock, Paper, Shotgun had a nice long chat with the people that brought this deal to reality, and it’s been confirmed that it’s actually System Shock 2 that’s coming.

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