Nightdive Studios Is Targeting Another Stellar FPS Classic To Remaster

There are some things that stand out during your doom-scrolling adventure across the world wide web. Amongst the visual noise you might see people that you respect, concepts that tickle you – and the odd title name that conjures warm fuzzy feelings alongside your dopamine response.

During a morning gaming scroll, I saw a name from my ancient past dragged out of the murky depths of my memory – with cover art that I still adore to this day. The Darkness, from Starbreeze Studios.

And then I noticed the name of the person responding to it.

ITS ON THE LIST https://t.co/mZiEKFru7q

— Stephen Kick (@pripyatbeast) August 27, 2023

Stephen Kick might not be an immediately recognisable name, but he is absolutely attached to a studio that is quite relevant to returning a classic FPS to modern hardware. He is the CEO of NightDive Studios – most known for polishing up all manner of beloved shooter properties – like PowerSlave Exhumed, System Shock and recently Star Wars: Dark Forces – so the pedigree is absolutely on display.

The Darkness was such an outstanding title, leagues ahead of its time with a crazy comic book story that literally dragged you to hell and back. The fate of such a game to be forever lost to a past console generation just doesn’t feel right; especially when you consider that it actually got a sequel that was released on the PC.

Here’s hoping that Stephen’s sentiment here is more than just passing interest, I’d love to see a new generation of players experience just how incredible the story of Jackie Estacado was.

Happy birthday, Jackie boy.

Did you play The Darkness back in the day? Would you be keen to see it return with a PC release? Let us know in the comments or on social media.