Nightdive chief teases Eternal Darkness revival
The head of Nightdive Studios has pointed to Eternal Darkness as a game he wants to bring back.
Stephen Kick, co-founder and chief executive of the studio, gave the hint on X after a follower asked whether the horror title would ever be seen again. He quote-posted the question, sharing it with his own comment attached, rather than letting it pass.
"Eternal Darkness is one of my all-time favorites and it deserves the treatment I know Nightdive Studios is capable of," Kick wrote. He added "keep your eye on our Deep Dives", linking to the studio's YouTube channel for its interview and behind-the-scenes series, as reported by Video Games Chronicle.
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem was developed by Silicon Knights and published by Nintendo in 2002 as an exclusive for the GameCube, Nintendo's disc-based home console from the early 2000s. The story jumps across centuries as different characters confront a hidden power. It kept a loyal following for its sanity system, which plays tricks on the player with fake faults and strange scares when a character is frightened.
Nightdive Studios was founded in 2012 and specialises in remasters, updated versions of older games rebuilt to run on modern systems. The company works across PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and PC hardware. Atari bought the studio in May 2023.
Kick has flagged this game before. In February 2022, writing from his @pripyatbeast account, he put Eternal Darkness at No. 1 on his list of wanted projects, according to a post on X. That message came more than four years before the latest exchange.
No date was announced. No platforms were named. No deal was confirmed.
Deep Dives is Nightdive's regular video series on its restoration work. Kick did not say when anything might appear there. His message stopped at pointing fans to the channel.
For people who never owned a GameCube, that gap is the point. The game has stayed tied to its original machine. Older games are often remastered for that reason: to let new players try them without hunting down old hardware and discs.
