Nightdive reassures fans about the Atari deal: 'Not only will we be doing as much as we ever did, but we'll be doing more of it'

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Atari surprised everyone last week with the out-of-nowhere acquisition of Nightdive Studios(opens in new tab), the developer responsible for bringing back classic '90s shooters including Turok and Turok 2, Blood, Quake, and Powerslave, as well as the upcoming System Shock remake. 

The news wasn't received with universal enthusiasm due to Atari's less-than-stellar contemporary reputation, which has arisen from ventures like the underwhelming Atari VCS(opens in new tab) and baffling Atari Hotels(opens in new tab), as well as its embrace of cryptocurrency and NFTs(opens in new tab), which went over about as well as you'd expect—which is to say, not well at all.

But Larry Kuperman, Nightdive's director of business development, said in an interview with PC Gamer that those concerns are misplaced. «The new Atari,» as he put it, «is dedicated to the same principles of bringing back classic and classic-style games that Nightdive has always pursued.» And to that end, Nightdive will continue to do what it's always done, effectively independent of Atari.

«We're going to continue to go forward,» Kuperman said. «I've watched a lot of the comments on Twitter, and people have said, 'Oh, they're so disappointed that Nightdive won't be doing this and won't be doing that.' And in fact there was a whole long list, but two of the titles that were mentioned that people are disappointed that we're not going to be doing, we're doing already. They're already 75% of the way complete.

»This past weekend, we showed off Rise of the Triad Ludicrous Edition(opens in new tab), which is something I'm really excited about. It's a joint project with the team at Apogee and New Blood. It's the first time we've ever done anything like that, but clearly,