Yes, OPP signed a licensing deal with the NewZ operator. NewZ will be "legalized" and become an independently operated game. It will NOT replace ISS and the NewZ operator will in no way be involved in the future development of Infestation: Survivor Stories.
NewZ will be renamed to an Infestation branded name and we’ll make a separate announcement about it sometime soon.
We’d like to stress that both ISS, ISS: Resurrection and NewZ will be operated independently by independent companies and teams.
Over the course of legal proceedings against unlawful pirated servers around the world, we realized that NewZ is providing a service that is accepted as a fun and positive experience by some of the community. OP Productions LLC leadership decided that with the proper legal structure it would benefit the community to make NewZ officially legal to play!