News the long-delayed "Kingpin: Reloaded" remaster finally has a release date of December 5th

[Krvavi Abadas]

there was a pretty long road to get to this point.

originally revealed back in 2020, the developers fairly quickly noted that the original source code for the game was missing. leading to multiple years worth of reverse-engineering.

We decided earlier this year to change our approach to the Remaster. As you all know, the original source code for Kingpin no longer exists, so our original plan was to "Recreate" the game in a modern engine (The same approach Nightdive uses for their KexEngine games).

However, during this, we quickly realized that in order to get the game to Feel 100% like the original (Including the fantastic path-finding for AI, etc.), a better approach would be to reverse engineer the original game and engine completely, essentially re-creating the missing sources from scratch.

We've been hard at work on this for the majority of 2020, and are finally at a stage where we're almost done.

(this post was made barely a year after it was revealed, for the record.)

all this for a rather unique choice of a game to get remastered. beyond it's rather edgy aesthetic (and heavy usage of music by the hip hop group Cypress Hill) the game is most notable for being one of the first projects with heavy involvement by artist Viktor Antonov. who would go on to create the highly distinctive environments of major titles such as Half-Life 2 and Dishonored.