![]() ![]() ![]() One can't go raising people's hopes about System Shock 2 until you're sure that'd just be cruel. Word of this did eek out earlier in the week but, well, the only source was Night Dive's website, which offered no proof or credentials for anything. GOG's also chucking in the soundtrack, maps, the first pitch document and more as digital extras. Night Dive has SS2 working just dandy on modern PCs, and it supports pre-existing mods like the System Shock 2 Texture Upgrade Project and Rebirth high-poly model pack. A very tough case, definitely, but we never lost hope. It was a real investigation a la Tex Murphy. You know the drill: one step forward, two steps back. We got lots of answers, sometimes aiming at the same direction, sometimes pointing in conflicting ones. We have contacted lots of publishers, developers and lawyers over the past 4-5 years – mostly industry veterans actually – to better understand the big legal puzzle behind this game and identify who owns the trademark, the IP, the code, distribution rights and so forth. GOG managing director Guillaume Rambourg painted RPS a richer picture: ![]() ![]() 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." "The short version is that negotiations began in October of last year. "The rights are still held in a very complicated tangle and going into all of it makes for very dry reading," Night Dive CEO Stephen Kick told Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Right-minded people have been yearning for a re-release for years but, it's been widely believed, rights to the game and name were split across publisher EA and an insurance company that scooped Looking Glass assets when it shut down, and no one had managed to reconcile this. The cyberpunk survival horror FPS-RPG has been mired in rights issues for yonks, but Night Dive Studios has managed to free it enough to re-release this wonderful, wonderful game on GOG tomorrow at $9.99. As if the Machine Mother herself heard our prayers, we'll finally be able to buy Looking Glass's phenomenal System Shock 2 again. ![]()
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