Xbox boss Phil Spencer wants to see the classic Hexen series return, and one developer t♋ook the opportunity to say they’re “very well suited” to make it happen. 

Speaking on the , Phil Spencer expressed his desire to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:bring back some dormant series that have been untouched and neglected for years. That back catalog essentially doubled overnight when 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft closed the deal on its Activision Blizzard acquisition - and Spencer𒊎 had on💎e particular series in mind: Hexen.

“When’s Hexen coming back? That's what people want to know,” Spencer quipped during the podcast. Hexen - an indirect sequel to the even older Heretic - was a first-person shooter from 1995 where you’d use finger magic, rather than guns, to blast baddies. The 🅰series carried over the tangled level design and bloody style of Doom, but you instead played as one of three magical classes. Thi🐠nk along the lines of Doctor Strange (or maybe this year’s Immortals Of Aveum), but cooler.

Spencer’s throwaway joke attracted the attention of Samuel Villareal, the lead engine developer at Nightdive Studios. “Just letting you know,”🌞 Villareal responded on Twitter, “having a long-running history and extensive knowledge with Heretic and Hexen, just want to point out that me and my team are very well suited for the job. Just saying”

Nightdive Studios are the developers behind this year’s incredible 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:System Shock remake, but the team has revived countless PC classics over the years - between Turok, Blade Runner, and the upcoming 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Star Wars: Dark Forces remaster. Though Nightdive’s most recent project was surprisingly澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: the Quake 2 remaster, which was a joint effort with other Xbox-owned studios, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:id Software and Machine Games. So there’s at least a histo𒅌ry between the two companies. 

To make matters even more fitting, Spencer himself namedropped the Quake 2 remaster as an example of how to bring back classics in the right way. “I thought [Quake 2 reꦺmaster] was awesome,” he noted. “They did a real good job revisiting a game, making it current, but also not leaving the history behind. So I’d love to see more things like thatꦆ.

Spencer continued: “I tease about things like Hexen just because I remember playing it as a kid. I have no plan for that, but I do think when you look across all of the franchises that are part of our teams, there’s an opportunity for us to go back, even if it’s just to recognize the moment and what those things meant in gaming’s history.” The stars certainly seem aligned for Hexen’s cursed resurrec🍎tion since we have both a fitting developer and an eager executive, but we’ll just need to sit tight before anything becomes really real.

In the meantime, here are the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Xbox Series X|S games we know are in development.