Heretic and Hexen have acquired a shock remaster from Nightdive Studios

Nightdive Studios and id Software program have announced a shock remaster of fantasy shooters Heretic and Hexen. The video games at the moment are out there for contemporary consoles in a brand new launch, dubbed Heretic + Hexen, that features help for co-op, cross-platform multiplayer and community-published mods.

Heretic + Hexen combines Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, Hexen: Past Heretic and Hexen: Deathkings of the Darkish Citadel right into a single bundle. On prime of creating the updates essential to get the video games operating on Xbox, PlayStation and Swap, Nightdive additionally created “two model new episodes” to play by known as Heretic: Religion Renewed and Hexen: Vestiges of Grandeur that embrace new ranges impressed by the unique video games.

After they have been first launched in 1994 and 1995, respectively, Heretic and Hexen featured the novel pairing of Doom-inspired first-person motion, with rudimentary RPG parts like character courses and a listing. The video games helped put developer Raven Software program on the map not lengthy earlier than it went on to create video games like Quake 4 and Wolfenstein for id Software program.

Nightdive Studios has labored on other id Software remasters, however the concept of remaking or rereleasing Heretic and Hexen has been within the playing cards for fairly some time. Microsoft accomplished its acquisition of ZeniMax Media, the mother or father firm of the video games’ unique writer id Software program, in 2021. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer was on the file as recently as 2023 as being all in favour of rereleasing each video games. It took a pair years, however the remasters lastly occurred.

Heretic + Hexen is on the market now for Swap, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S, PC and Xbox Recreation Move Final subscribers. When you already personal any of the unique variations of the video games, you may get upgraded to the remastered bundle without cost.