type private industry video game industry founded november 2012 ; 3 years ago 2012 11 in vancouver washington united states founder stephen kick headquarters portland oregon united states area served worldwide key people stephen kick ceo alix banegas cfo products video games website nightdivestudios.com night dive studios llc stylized as nightdive studios is a video game development company that was founded in november 2012 by game designer stephen kick 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 . 1 since then night dive studios has been re releasing classic pc gaming titles . contents 1 history 2 games 2.1 original intellectual property 2.2 acquisitions 3 references 4 external links history edit 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 . 2 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 3 though according to a lawyer for star insurance they themselves have since acquired the lingering intellectual property rights from ea . 2 system shock 2 was initially re released on the gog.com games distribution platform known for carrying classics that had long been unavailable . 4 prior to the announcement of its re release system shock 2 was the most user requested game on gog.com . 5 later in may 2013 system shock 2 was also offered via steam . 6 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 . 4 this was realized in september 2013 with the gog.com re release of i have no mouth and i must scream a video game designed by science fiction author harlan ellison and based on his eponymous short story . 7 8 in october 2013 the game was also released on steam . 9 in fall 2013 night dive studios accelerated its release of classic games re releasing wizardry vi vii and 8 10 followed by the re release of the classic trilobyte titles the 7th guest and the 11th hour . 11 in 2014 night dive studios re released 28 titles from the humongous entertainment children s adventure games catalog 12 as well as the cult classic adventure game bad mojo . the company also generated speculation that it might be planning to re release the operative no one lives forever as news sources took notice of a night dive studios trademark filing that included material referencing the no one lives forever franchise . 13 14 ceo kick responded to these rumors by saying that the company could not comment on future releases for the time being . 15 kick later revealed that they had indeed been working on trying to acquire the publishing rights for both no one lives forever and its sequel to the point where they had the original source code to construct a remake of the title but could not get the three companies with stake in the games ip activision 20th century fox and warner bros. to negotiate the rights . 16 2014 also saw the company s participation in the humble bundle series of games collections with a humble bundle package in may 2014 that featured all of the company s titles through that date 17 and a flash sale bundle in july that featured the company s humongous entertainment re release titles . 18 in december 2014 night dive studios coordinated the re release of the 1996 first person shooter role playing hybrid game strife as strife veteran edition after acquiring rights to the game . because the game s source code had been lost a derivative of the chocolate doom subproject chocolate strife was used as the game s engine with its original programmers being contracted to do additional coding for the re release . the source code of strife veteran edition has been made available under gplv3 on github by night dive studios and samuel kaiser villarreal on december 12 2014 . 19 while this was the first source code opened for a night dive studios release stephen kick announced his commitment in recovering preserving and also opening of more source code in a reddit ama in 2016 . 20 in february 2015 it was announced by ceo kick that they were working on re releasing powerslave for digital distribution services with an added bonus of porting the saturn version into the package . kick also announced that he was working with the original developers of noctropolis and the original source code and the updated package will feature remastered music widescreen support and bug fixes . 20 on september 22 2015 night dive studios released the original system shock in the enhanced edition that adds support for more resolutions and mouselook . night dive studios has since announced it has acquired full rights to the system shock series and are considering developing a third title in the series as well as remakes for both previous titles working with original concept artist robert waters for some of the design . 1 on november 4 at fragments of silicon stephen kick announced new upcoming releases from both night dive studios and the retroism brand including titanic adventure out of time starlord forsaken and machines wired for war . 21 on april 6 again at fragments of silicon a returning stephen kick further confirmed that they were working on looking into the revival of the classic warp kenji eno game d which had been published by acclaim in 1996 . 22 games edit original intellectual property edit year of release title developer s 2014 strife veteran edition rogue entertainment night dive studios 2015 spirits of xanadu good morning commander system shock enhanced edition looking glass technologies night dive studios 2016 womb room bearded eye 2017 system shock night dive studios tba system shock 3 otherside entertainment acquisitions edit year of re release year of original release title developer s original publisher s 2013 1999 system shock 2 looking glass studios irrational games electronic arts 1990 wizardry 6 bane of the cosmic forge sir tech sir tech 1990 wizardry 7 crusaders of the dark savant sir tech sir tech 2001 wizardry 8 sir tech canada sir tech 1995 i have no mouth and i must scream the dreamers guild cyberdreams 1999 shadow man acclaim studios teesside acclaim entertainment 1993 the 7th guest trilobyte virgin interactive 1995 the 11th hour trilobyte virgin interactive 2014 1996 harvester digifx interactive merit studios 1997 spy fox in dry cereal humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1996 putt putt and pep s balloon o rama humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1996 freddi fish and luther s maze madness humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1992 putt putt joins the parade humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1996 pajama sam no need to hide when it s dark outside humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1994 freddi fish and the case of the missing kelp seeds humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1999 spy fox 2 some assembly required humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1996 putt putt and pep s dog on a stick humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1996 freddi fish and luther s water worries humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1998 pajama sam 2 thunder and lightning aren t so frightening humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1996 freddi fish 2 the case of the haunted schoolhouse humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1993 putt putt goes to the moon humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1994 putt putt and fatty bear s activity pack humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1997 putt putt travels through time humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 2001 spy fox 3 operation ozone humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 2000 pajama sam 3 you are what you eat from your head to your feet humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1998 freddi fish 3 the case of the stolen conch shell humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1998 spy fox in cheese chase humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 2003 pajama sam life is rough when you lose your stuff humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1999 freddi fish 4 the case of the hogfish rustlers of briny gulch humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1998 putt putt enters the race humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 2000 putt putt joins the circus humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 2003 putt putt pep s birthday surprise humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1999 spy fox in hold the mustard humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1997 pajama sam s sock works humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1998 pajama sam s lost & found humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 2001 freddi fish 5 the case of the creature of coral cove humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1994 tex murphy under a killing moon access software access software 1989 tex murphy mean streets access software access software 1991 tex murphy martian memorandum access software access software 1996 tex murphy the pandora directive access software access software 1998 tex murphy overseer access software access software 1995 putt putt saves the zoo humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1996 bad mojo redux pulse entertainment acclaim entertainment got game entertainment 1990 sid meier s covert action mps labs microprose 1993 sid meier s pirates gold plus microprose mps labs microprose 1994 sid meier s colonization microprose microprose 1992 rex nebular and the cosmic gender bender microprose microprose 1989 sword of the samurai mps labs microprose 1994 dragonsphere mps labs microprose 1992 darklands mps labs microprose 1993 bloodnet microprose microprose 2001 pajama sam games to play on any day humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1993 fatty bear s birthday surprise humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1996 deadlock planetary conquest accolade accolade 1998 deadlock ii shrine wars cyberlore studios accolade accolade 1999 redline beyond games accolade 1999 slave zero accolade infogrames 1997 7th legion epic megagames vision software microprose 2000 b 17 flying fortress the mighty 8th wayward design microprose 1991 f 117a nighthawk stealth fighter 2.0 mps labs microprose 1994 fleet defender the f 14 tomcat simulation microprose microprose 1989 silent service microprose microprose 1992 task force 1942 surface naval action in the south pacific mps labs microprose 1995 across the rhine mps labs microprose 1991 command hq ozark softscape microplay software 1996 eradicator accolade accolade 1998 nam tnt team gt interactive software 1990 silent service 2 mps labs microprose 1993 the labyrinth of time terra nova development electronic arts the wyrmkeep entertainment co. 1994 inherit the earth quest for the orb the dreamers guild new world computing the wyrmkeep entertainment co. 2015 1994 1942 the pacific air war mps labs microprose 1992 challenge of the five realms spellbound in the world of nhagardia microprose microprose 1988 f 19 stealth fighter microprose microprose 1991 hyperspeed mps labs microprose 1990 knights of the sky microprose microprose 1995 let s explore the jungle humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1995 let s explore the farm humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1995 let s explore the airport humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1998 z.a.r. maddox games auric vision 1997 madspace to hell and beyond maddox games auric vision 1997 tony tough and the night of roasted moths nayma software nayma software got game entertainment 1996 terra nova strike force centauri looking glass technologies looking glass technologies 1997 big thinkers kindergarten humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1997 big thinkers 1st grade humongous entertainment humongous entertainment 1997 noctropolis flashpoint studios electronic arts 1996 timelapse gte entertainment gte entertainment 1994 system shock classic looking glass studios origin systems 1989 tank the m1a1 abrams battle tank simulation sphere inc. spectrum holobyte 1999 world war ii gi tnt team gt interactive