Le Corbeau has since continued to patch the games, with their most recent update dropping just a few months ago in June. The following year, publisher Nightdive Studios-which managed to rescue System Shock 2‘s rights from limbo-incorporated Le Corbeau’s patch into its official re-release of the game. Suddenly, people could run System Shock 2 (and Thief 2) again. Nobody’s entirely sure how this fan pulled off an update of this magnitude, but it likely involved building upon an incomplete version of the game’s source code that leaked in 2010. The mystery saviour of System Shock 2 goes by the online handle “Le Corbeau.” In 2012, according to a feature over at Rock Paper Shotgun, they first posted their revolutionary patch to the game, titled “NewDark,” on a French Thief fan forum. To this day, nobody knows the identity of the fan who released this update. Then, in 2012, a fan released an unofficial update that took aim at those issues with almost cyborg-like laser precision. Getting it to run on more modern machines increasingly became a massive hassle.
For a time, it languished without updates. After developer Looking Glass Studios closed in 2000, the game wound up in ownership limbo. System Shock 2 is a beloved classic, a fascinating tangle of shooter, survival horror, and role-playing systems that intermingle and spark with a frightening menace.
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