During the mid-1990s, Jurjen Katsman was a
computer science student, gamer, and
demoscene developer in the Netherlands. During one weekend, he was invited to meet Dutch developers working for the British publisher
Eidos Interactive. Without his knowledge, these developers had arranged a job interview for him. He was hired by Eidos and asked to relocate to
London within three weeks, forcing him to cease his studies. Katsman remained in London for two years before being transferred to
Crystal Dynamics in the United States, which Eidos had acquired in 1998. After some time of living in hotels, Katsman chose to return to the Netherlands. By this time, Crystal Dynamics was developing
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver and sought a developer capable of
porting it to the
Dreamcast. Believing that Katsman had the right skill set, the company hired him for the conversion. At their behest, Katsman founded Nixxes Software in 1999, deriving the name from "nix", his demoscene nickname. The Dreamcast port of
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver was Nixxes' first project, which Katsman completed on his own. By 2013, when Nixxes was working on
Thief, the company employed seventeen people. The company faced some hardships during the onset of the
COVID-19 pandemic because a lot of hardware had to remain in the office while most employees transitioned to
remote work, and many workflows required a high-speed connection to the company
servers. On 1 July 2021,
Sony Interactive Entertainment announced its acquisition of Nixxes Software to undisclosed terms. In a statement to
Famitsu later that month, Sony Interactive Entertainment's
CEO, Jim Ryan, stated that the acquisition aimed at bringing first-party
PlayStation games to
personal computers. After initially assisting
Guerrilla Games in patching the
Windows version of
Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition throughout 2020 and 2021, their first standalone project as a PlayStation Studios subsidiary was revealed in June 2022 to be the PC ports of ''
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered and Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales'', developed in collaboration with sister studio
Insomniac Games. In 2023, Nixxes confirmed that it would start working on more
remasters while also continuing their work on PC ports. == Games ==