Talking to Knight Dave founder Stephen Cook and Business Development VP at this year’s Game Developers Conference, I was interested in how to return to System Shak 2 for the upcoming Remistor of the studio. Nevertheless, I realized that the shock 2 was a game that kicked the night at the first place.
Cook mentioned the extraordinary story that he found himself deals to restore the dead franchise, and also provided a detail that I never knew before: Long -time, system shock rights were in the hands of an insurance company who did not know what to do with them.
“Initially, it was just because I couldn’t find it to run it right,” Cook said about his system Shack 2 Quest. After spending some time for Sony Online Entertainment, she and her girlfriend left to go to Central America’s driving tour. “I brought a netbook – just a small, compact – and the only things I could get to run on it were classic PC games.”
But he could not get his own physical copy of System Shak 2 to work, while a digital version was absent from the GOG store front, yet he was crowded as “good old sports”.
Cook said, “I accidentally tried to find out what was in search of glasses, where the rights were over.” “And this search resulted in the G4 TV article that I found on the Wayback machine, when the glass was out of business after appearing, the rights went to the insurance company in Midwest. Star Insurance.
“I looked at them and sent an email to their General Council, which is just listed on the website: ‘Hey, you still have the rights of system shock.’ And he wrote me back immediately, but he asked me if I want to shoot the system, and I am in the guatery, so I was not really in the best position to start the triple-A project, but I thought to re-release the original games.
In fact, the rights rights of the series were divided between the star and the EA, the star received the IP copyright and the EA trademark. “It was a strategic thing that was done by the Warren Specter so that no system could do the shock project,” Cook explained. “He will tell us many years later.”
Fortunately, the EA trademark just ended with the lack of use when the kick reached the star, so the insurance company had just earned full property, but there was a clear lack of a clear path to benefit from it.
Cook said, “I came to them with a business idea that was faster, cheaper than producing a new triple A game.” He agreed to it, and I sent the contract to GOG, because when I told them I didn’t believe that I had found it. “
“(Former GOGSVP Olagg Klapovsky) was not convinced that Steve had rights. Steve supported via email.” “It is sent forward to Olig, saying,” Hey, this boy says he has the right to trauma. “
“Oleung writes back, saying, ‘He is probably full of filth. This is probably all bullying.” It is sent back to Steve.
Cook said, “He still doesn’t believe me today that I just emailed and asked.” “He thinks I have been working family in the star, or that there have been some conspiracies, because (GOG) has been trying to get rights for years.”
Subsequently, Coperman will join the Night Dive and will be able to achieve the rest of the rights of the series organized by Star Insurance, and the system shock series is underway at night.
In addition to the upcoming System Shak 2 remost, in addition to arriving on June 26, the Studio’s first game ground up remake was one of our favorite releases of 2023 -we gave it the “Best Remake” award even against the choice of residential Euel 4 remake. Night Div has not talked clearly about what will happen after the shock 2, but I have been a bit champion to hear more.
