The Latest Breaking News from Stephen Kick

Nightdive's Thief remaster is adding a weapon wheel and other UI changes, 'but we're not forcing you to use it'

Optional improvements are the best kind of improvements.

PC Gamer · Jun 26

Nightdive's Larry Kuperman retires after 25-year career in games: 'We never looked at games as products'

"If I have one parting lesson to give to the industry, it's never say die."

PC Gamer · Mar 31

Nightdive Studios' Stephen Kick has 8,544 hours in Dota 2, and just clocked his 5,000th win: 'I think it's made me a better leader'

The CEO of the remaster specialists guides us through his gaming library.

PC Gamer · Feb 22

Retro remake dev calls Switch 2 game-key cards "disheartening," says you'd hope a company as big as Nintendo "would take preservation a little more seriously"

Despite the "step back," everybody is "definitely putting in way more effort these days to back up their stuff"

GamesRadar · May 1, 2025

The rights to one of the greatest PC games of all time languished in the vault of a Midwestern insurance firm until a frustrated player bugged them about a re-release, 'But they asked me if I wanted to do System Shock 3'

Thus, Nightdive was born.

PC Gamer · Apr 6, 2025

29 years later, a cult classic horror boomer shooter is getting an "HD revival" from the masters of retro remakes

Nightdive Studios is releasing Killing Time: Resurrected on PC and consoles "soon"

GamesRadar · Jun 6, 2024

Here's how Nightdive "brought the horror back to System Shock" in its remake of the sci-fi FPS classic

Interview |Game director Stephen Kick "wanted to see Dead Space levels of carnage"

GamesRadar · May 22, 2024

The System Shock remake is getting a massive patch with a revised ending, choice of female player character '8 years in the making', and a significant quality of life improvement

I'm glad I put off my replay of 2023's best remake.

PC Gamer · Apr 4, 2024

Preserving old games was seen as a non-commercial 'art project' until recently, says Nightdive director: 'They were great then and they're great now, and companies have begun to realize that'

Nightdive's Stephen Kick and Larry Kuperman shared their thoughts on the importance of videogame history in an interview with PC Gamer at GDC.

PC Gamer · Mar 22, 2024

Star Wars: Dark Forces cemented its status as one best remaster studios around, and now the dev wants to return to the holy grail FPS revival they let go 9 years ago

It's a whole new world out there, after all

GamesRadar · Mar 21, 2024