A number of highly-placed System Shock 3 developers are no longer employed at Otherside Entertainment, putting the future of System Shock 3’s release into question.
As highlighted on ResetEra, a number of employees are shown as no longer working at Otherside Entertainment. Some of these employees are pretty important to the development team, too.
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Who are the employees that have left Otherside Entertainment? Here’s just some of the people who have moved on:
- Chase Jones, Design Director
- Left in February 2020, moved to Lost Boys Interactive
- Mark Allender, Lead Programmer
- Left in November 2019, moved to Deep Silver Volition
- Francisco Cruz III, Senior Environmental Artist
- Left in November 2019, currently freelance
- Vicki Resendez, Senior Producer
- Left in October 2019, no updates since
Furthermore, VGC highlighted several anonymous posts by “Kin Con Karn” on the RPGcodex forum which talked about things behind the scenes. These posts were confirmed as having accurate information by the game’s community director.
So, is System Shock 3 dead? There hasn’t yet been an official announcement, but it certainly doesn’t look good.
