Nightdive is a studio on a noble mission: sourcing the rights to forgotten retro games, reformatting them to be playable on modern hardware, and bringing them to new and old audiences alike in turn. But for co-founder and director Stephen Kick, this journey started not far from where it's currently at.
"System Shock 2 was the first game that Nightdive ever released," he says of his 2012 endeavor to find and play a 1999 classic. "It's a horror video game masterpiece from a bygone era at this point. But yeah, horror video games in general have always been a big part of my personal DNA." He was named after Stephen King, after all, raised by horror-hound parents on a steady diet of EC comics and the works of HP Lovecraft. It sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy that Kick is proud to embrace.
