Night Dive Studios
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| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | November 2012 in Vancouver, Washington, United States |
| Founder | Stephen Kick |
| Headquarters | Portland, Oregon, United States |
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| Products | Video games |
| Website | nightdivestudios |
Night Dive Studios, LLC (stylized as Nightdive Studios) is an American video game development company that was founded in November 2012 by video game artist Stephen Kick (formerly of Sony Online Entertainment) in Vancouver, Washington. Now based in Portland, Oregon, the company is best known for obtaining rights to classic video games that are no longer available, updating them for compatibility with modern platforms, and re-releasing them into digital distribution.
Their first release was System Shock 2, a classic from 1999 which influenced many later video games. Since then, Night Dive Studios has been re-releasing classic PC gaming titles.
In February 2013, news broke that the rights to digital distribution of System Shock 2 had been successfully recovered after 13 years of non-availability by Night Dive Studios, at the time a newcomer to the gaming industry. Before that, the rights for the System Shock IP were caught in complications between Electronic Arts and Meadowbrook Insurance Group (a subsidiary of Star Insurance Company), the entity that acquired the assets of Looking Glass Studios on their closure, though according to a lawyer for Star Insurance, they themselves have since acquired the lingering intellectual property rights from EA.System Shock 2 was initially re-released on the GOG.com games distribution platform, known for carrying classics that had long been unavailable. Prior to the announcement of its re-release, System Shock 2 was the most user-requested game on GOG.com. Later in May 2013, System Shock 2 was also offered via Steam.
For much of 2013, Night Dive Studios exclusively offered System Shock 2, though CEO Stephen Kick suggested that an original work was being considered and that the studio was open to re-releasing other classic PC games as well.
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