2025 has already been a banner yr for Nightdive Studios, the crew behind the not too long ago launched System Shock 2: twenty fifth Anniversary Remaster and the Heretic + Hexen remaster. The studio has made its title by giving basic video games a contemporary coat of paint. One of many titles that Nightdive Studios CEO Stephen Kick continues to be desirous to get his palms on is Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, which has solely ever been launched on GameCube again in 2002.
Kick shared his want to revisit Eternal Darkness throughout a latest look on Shacknews (by way of Nintendo Life). However because the rights to the sport are absolutely owned by Nintendo, it could by no means get an official re-release.
“[Eternal Darkness has] been kinda locked behind the GameCube/Nintendo wall all this time, and it is one thing that I’d personally like to see get re-released,” Kick stated.
Silicon Knights developed Eternal Darkness, which was the primary M-rated sport printed by Nintendo. Though the sport wasn’t thought-about a survival-horror title, it did have horror components and a novel approach of messing with gamers by sanity results that have been meant to interrupt the fourth wall.
Eternal Darkness director Denis Dyack made a number of makes an attempt to develop a non secular sequel known as Shadow of the Eternals. Nevertheless, two separate crowdfunding initiatives fell brief and manufacturing of the sport was in the end shut down.
Kick has beforehand shared his want to revive The Operative: No One Lives Eternally, and No One Lives Eternally 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.’s Approach. Throughout the Shacknews interview, Kick reiterated that these video games stay a precedence for him. Nevertheless, the rights to that franchise have been tough to untangle for the final 20 years.
Nightdive’s subsequent launch, Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster, will hit Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Swap, and PC on November 20.