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Nightdive Studios, Inc. (previously known as Night Dive Studios, LLC) is a video game development company that was created in 2013 by designer Stephen Kick. Nightdive Studios is registered in Washington State and officially located in Vancouver. The company is known for obtaining rights to classic games that are no longer available, updating them for compatibility with modern platforms, and re-releasing them.

Nightdive Studios is notable in the Doom community for obtaining the rights to Strife in 2014, and organizing the development of a re-release with an updated engine titled Strife: Veteran Edition. The company has also cooperated with id Software and Bethesda on an updated re-release of Doom 64 which was released in 2020, and again on Doom + Doom II in 2024, an upgrade to the previous version of Doom Classic. The company has also produced remasters for the Quake series. Later in 2024 it released Killing Time: Resurrected, as well as confirming that the original PC port of Killing Time was based on the Jaguar Doom source code.

Nightdive also employs many Doom community members such as Samuel "Kaiser" Villarreal, James "Quasar" Haley, Edward "Edward850" Richardson, and Max "Altazimuth" Waine.

On March 22, 2023, it was announced that Nightdive Studios would be acquired in full by Atari SA and would continue the same work as a subsidiary of that company.^[1]

Games[edit]

Remakes[edit]

Title	Released
System Shock	2023

Remasters and other upgrades[edit]

Title	Released	Remastered	Original Developer	Note
Strife: Veteran Edition	1996	2014	Rogue Entertainment	Chocolate Strife used as base
Noctropolis	1994	2015	Flashpoint Productions
System Shock: Enhanced Edition	1994	2015	Looking Glass Technologies	Originally based off the fan-made "Portable Edition", later updated to a full KEX Engine source port
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter	1997	2015	Iguana Entertainment
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil	1998	2017	Iguana Entertainment
Forsaken Remastered	1998	2018	Probe Entertainment
Blood: Fresh Supply	1997	2019	Monolith Productions	Jointly published with Atari, who owned the PC distribution rights
Doom 64	1997	2020	Midway Games (Corsicana, Texas)	Co-developed with id Software
SiN Gold	1998	2020	Ritual Entertainment	v1.13 patch for original engine
Shadow Man Remastered	1999	2021	Acclaim Studios Teesside
Quake	1996	2021	id Software	Co-developed with id Software and MachineGames
PowerSlave Exhumed	1996	2022	Lobotomy Software	Jointly published with Throwback Entertainment
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition	1997	2022	Westwood Studios
Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition	1995	2023	Apogee Software	Co-developed with New Blood Interactive and Apogee Entertainment
Quake II	1997	2023	id Software	Co-developed with id Software and MachineGames
Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion	2000	2023	Acclaim Studios Austin
Star Wars: Dark Forces	1995	2024	LucasArts
PO'ed: Definitive Edition	1995	2024	Any Channel
Doom + Doom II	1993	2024	id Software	Co-developed with id Software and MachineGames
Killing Time: Resurrected	1996	2024	Studio 3DO, Logicware	Jointly published with Ziggurat Interactive
The Thing: Remastered	2002	2024	Computer Artworks
SiN Reloaded	1998	In Development	Ritual Entertainment
System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition	1999	In Development	Irrational Games, Looking Glass Studios

Re-releases with compatibility fixes[edit]

Title	Released	Re-Released	Original Developer	Note
System Shock 2	1999	2013	Irrational Games, Looking Glass Studios	Utilizes the NewDark source port by "Le Corbeau"
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream	1995	2013	Cyberdreams, The Dreamer's Guild	Utilizes ScummVM
Wizardry VI	1990	2013	Sir-Tech
Wizardry VII	1992	2013	Sir-Tech
Wizardry 8	2001	2013	Sir-Tech Canada
The 7th Guest	1994	2013	Trilobyte Games	Delisted in 2019 to make way for a separate re-release by MojoTouch
The 11th Hour	1994	2013	Trilobyte Games
28 titles from Humongous Entertainment	1992-2003	2014-2015	Humongous Entertainment	Utilizes ScummVM
Bad Mojo: Redux	1996	2014	Pulse Entertainment
Tex Murphy Steam Collection	1989-1998	2014	Access Software
Commander Keen in Keen Dreams	1991	2015	id Software	Delisted due to issues with a rights holder
The Wheel of Time	1999	2022	Legend Entertainment	Prepared for release by the GOG.com team

External links[edit]

Nightdive Studios Official Website

Sources[edit]

This article incorporates text from the open-content Wikipedia online encyclopedia article Nightdive Studios.

References[edit]

↑ Atari (22 March 2023). "Atari enters into an agreement to acquire Night Dive Studios and announces its intention to proceed with the issuance of €30 M bonds convertible into new Atari shares." GlobeNewswire. Retrieved 23 March 2023.

Nightdive Studios v · t · e
Employees Xaser Acheron • Dimitris Giannakis • James Haley • Stephen Kick • Lexi Mayfield • Edward Richardson • Sven Ruthner (contractor) • Matt Tropiano • Samuel Villarreal • Max Waine
Games Strife: Veteran Edition • Doom 64 • Doom + Doom II • Killing Time: Resurrected Technology: KEX 2 • KEX Engine

id Software v · t · e
Doom era (1993-2003)	Employees Michael Abrash • Adrian Carmack • John Carmack • Kevin Cloud • Tom Hall • Todd Hollenshead • Donna Jackson • American McGee • Sandy Petersen • John Romero • Shawn Green • Dave Taylor • Jay Wilbur • Tim Willits • Mike Wilson
Doom era (1993-2003)	Hired associates John Anderson • Gerald Brom • Dario Casali • Milo Casali • John Cash • John Coffey • Bernd Kreimeier • Randy Linden • Robert Prince • Don Ivan Punchatz • Gregor Punchatz • Paul Radek • Trent Reznor Nerve Software • Raven Software • Rogue Entertainment • TeamTNT • Williams Entertainment
Doom 3 era (2004-2008)	Employees Christian Antkow • Adrian Carmack • John Carmack • Kevin Cloud • Todd Hollenshead • Donna Jackson • Katherine Anna Kang • Fredrik Nilsson • Kenneth Scott • J.M.P van Waveren • Tim Willits
Doom 3 era (2004-2008)	Hired associates Matthew Costello • Trent Reznor • Chris Vrenna id Mobile • Nerve Software • Raven Software
ZeniMax era (2009+)	Employees Dakota Cann • Kevin Cloud • Mark Diaz • Donna Jackson • Hugo Martin • Jason Martin • Chad Mossholder • Jason O'Connell • Mike Rubits • Tiago Sousa • Marty Stratton • Emerson Tung • Tim Willits
ZeniMax era (2009+)	Related Mick Gordon • Andrew Hulshult • Bethesda Softworks • Nerve Software • Nightdive Studios • ZeniMax Media

[1] Atari (22 March 2023). "Atari enters into an agreement to acquire Night Dive Studios and announces its intention to proceed with the issuance of €30 M bonds convertible into new Atari shares." GlobeNewswire. Retrieved 23 March 2023.

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