Nightdive Studios

Night Dive Studios, Inc.
Nightdive Studios
FormerlyNight Dive Studios, LLC (2012–2019)[1]
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryVideo games
FoundedNovember 7, 2012; 11 years ago (2012-11-07) in Portland, Oregon, US
Founders
  • Stephen Kick
  • Alix Kick
Headquarters,
US
Key people
Number of employees
40 (2022)
ParentAtari SA (2023–present)
Websitenightdivestudios.com

Night Dive Studios, Inc. (trade name: Nightdive Studios) is an American video game developer based in Vancouver, Washington and a subsidiary of Atari SA. The company is known for obtaining rights to abandonware video games, updating them for compatibility with modern platforms, and re-releasing them via digital distribution services, supporting preservation of older games. Many of the company's releases use the internally developed KEX Engine.

Nightdive Studios was founded in November 2012 by Stephen and Alix Kick, former video game artists for Sony Online Entertainment, after Stephen Kick was unable to purchase a copy of the 1999 game System Shock 2. He negotiated with the rightsholder Star Insurance Company, which had acquired System Shock and other assets from the defunct developer Looking Glass Studios, and Nightdive Studios re-released the game via GOG.com in February 2013. The company was acquired by Atari SA in May 2023.

  1. ^ Kick, Stephen (June 28, 2019). "Articles of Conversion of Night Dive Studios, LLC Into Night Dive Studios, Inc" – via Corporations and Charities Filing System.