Nintendo 64 classics Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Turok 2 headed to Steam

By Danny Cowan August 26, 2015

n64 turok games coming to pc remastered header — Image used with permission by copyright holder

Night Dive Studios announced that it will issue “modernized versions” of the landmark Nintendo 64 first-person shooters Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil for PC platforms via Steam, GOG, and other online storefronts.

A company dedicated to upgrading and reissuing classic games for modern PCs, Night Dive Studios previously released updated ports of titles like The 7th Guest, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, and System Shock 2.

Released in 1997, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter was among the first batch of first-person shooters developed specifically for consoles. The game offered a unique control scheme that mapped movement to the Nintendo 64 controller’s face buttons and featured environmental challenges that took advantage of its first-person perspective, among other innovations.

Turok 2 premiered in 1999, introducing a split-screen multiplayer mode and a more varied and challenging single-player campaign. Both games were subsequently ported to PCs after their Nintendo 64 debuts. The series made infrequent (and less well-received) appearances on consoles in the years afterward, with the most recent being 2008’s Turok for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PCs.

Night Dive Studios’ release plans will see Turok and its sequel released digitally via Steam, the Humble Bundle store, GOG (Good Old Games), GamersGate, Greenman Gaming, and via the publisher’s website. The company notes that both games will be “re-mastered for today’s modern computers with enhanced graphics and other improvements.”

“When Turok: Dinosaur Hunter was first released it was nothing short of revolutionary,” Night Dive Studios founder and CEO Stephen Kick stated. “To that point, no game had ever offered the combination of graphics and an open world environment that Turok featured. We are very excited to have the opportunity to bring this great franchise back to life and to be able to share these great titles with today’s gaming audience.”

Release dates for the revamped Turok and Turok 2 are not yet known.

Editors' Recommendations

11 N64 games that should come to Nintendo Switch Online next

Topics

Contributor

Danny’s passion for video games was ignited upon his first encounter with Nintendo’s Duck Hunt, and years later, he still…

Gaming

The next Batman: Arkham game is a Meta Quest 3 exclusive

Batman stands in front of a bat shadow in Batman: Arkham Shadow.

A new Batman: Arkham was just announced, but it's not what you'd expect. Titled Batman: Arkham Shadow, it's a VR title made exclusively for the Meta Quest 3.

Not much is known about the game's story, with the tagline in a Meta blog post simply stating the following: "Evil stalks the streets. Gotham City is in danger. And you’re the only one who can save it." Shortly after the announcement, Geoff Keighley confirmed on X that we'll get more details on the game during his Summer Game Fest 2024 showcase on June 7. For now, the following teaser, which ends with Batman setting off a smoke bomb to get away from a horde of rats (is Ratcatcher in this game?), will have to suffice.

Gaming

A Nintendo emulator is Apple’s top downloaded app after ban reversal

Nintendo Entertainment System with controller.

The iOS App Store has a new No. 1 app, and it's Delta -- Game Emulator. Recently unbanned by Apple, the app allows players to emulate games from several different Nintendo systems, even though it isn't officially backed by Nintendo.

As a report from The Washington Post outlines, Apple recently loosened its App Store restrictions, which allowed game emulators to return to the storefront even though they were previously banned. Emulators populate a murky gray area in the video game industry, as they are fantastic for game preservation, but also give people ways to play games illegally if they find the ROM online.

Computing

Best GPU deals: MSI, XFX, EVGA

An AMD graphics card in an external GPU enclosure.

Getting into gaming can be an expensive hobby, especially if you're building a new PC from scratch and want to get the best GPU that you possibly can. Unfortunately, in the past couple of years, GPU prices have skyrocketed, especially for RTX 40-series cards, and they don't look to be coming down any time soon, whether you're going for AMD or Nvidia. Luckily, there are still quite a lot of great deals you can take advantage of that will let you snag a card for a great price, and we've collected some of our favorites below. That said if you'd rather go for something that's already been put together, check out these gaming PC deals instead.
XFX SPEEDSTER SWFT210 AMD Radeon RX 6600 Core 8GB GDDR6 -- $230, was $280

XFX is a pretty well-known brand that makes AMD Radeon GPUs, so you're getting a good-quality device right out of the gate. It has an impressive 8GB GDDR6, at least for this price bracket, and will give you a bit longer life out of it when games start using up a lot more VRAM, even at lower graphical settings. While the base clock runs at 2.0 GHz, the boosted clock speed is 2.5 GHz which is pretty good, and the whole thing is unlocked, so you could theoretically boost it higher if you have the right cooling. This RTX 6600 can support resolutions up to 8K, but really, this is an ideal 1080p gaming GPU.