Nightdive Studios Wants To Bring Xbox 360 Games Back From The Dead
The Xbox 360 is an amazing console that boasted an unbelievable library of games, and while some of the best are still playable on modern Xbox consoles through backwards compatibility, there are plenty that sadly never made the jump.
And of course, things got worse last year when the Xbox 360 marketplace officially shut down, taking loads of digital Xbox 360 games with it – including a whole bunch of exclusives that are no longer purchasable anywhere at this point.
Nightdive Studios, the team behind recent remasters of Quake, Star Wars: Dark Forces, System Shock and much more, doesn’t want to see those games “lost” to time. In an interview with VGC, studio head Stephen Kick and director of business development Larry Kuperman advised that they “stand ready” to tackle some of these projects.
Kuperman: “I would begin asking a couple of questions. Was it Xbox 360 exclusive, or was there a PC version out too? Because that also changes things, the little preservation that’s available. Do we have source code? If so, what’s the quality of the source code? How about the assets? Those are the kinds of considerations that we have there. That being said, there were some really good games that came out in that era that shouldn’t be lost.”
The company has done an amazing job with every project they’ve put out so far, and therefore we assume plenty of teams would love to team up in bringing their Xbox 360 titles back from the dead. Circumstances change over time though – studios dissolve, licenses expire, and source code isn’t always available or in the best shape.
Whatever happens, it’s going to be very interesting to see what projects Nightdive takes on in the future, and perhaps we might even get to see some PS3 exclusives on Xbox as a result as well. That’d be a nice bonus for sure!
