Director John Carpenter, who made the 1982 film of the same name that this video game is sequel to, worked closely with developer Computer Artworks. Such a good time was had all around that Computer Artworks got Mr. Carpenter to contribute his face and his voice for the in-game character of Dr. Shaun Faraday. Perhaps due to SAG considerations, however, the game's end credits only list a special thank-you message for Mr. Carpenter and not a voice actor credit.
Captain Blake says, "Now I'm gonna show you what I already know," before performing a blood test on himself. MacReady (Kurt Russell) says the same thing in La cosa del otro mundo (1982) before testing his own blood.
When Blake and his team find the UFO at the beginning of the game, the UFO is large and the cave where they find it is large enough for them to easily enter. In the movie however the UFO was no bigger than a bumpy car and the cave was small that McCready and the main characters had to squat to enter. Also the entrance to the cave was via a small hole/tunnel that the Blair-thing dug while trapped in the basement not through a mine opening as depicted in the game.
Nightdive Studios announced they are making a remastered version of this game designed to run on modern gaming systems. In addition to remastered graphics that support 4K resolutions up to 3840x2160 and 3D surround sound compatibility, the remastered version also includes content cut from the original version, numerous bug fixes and improvements to both companion and enemy AI, and minor changes to ammo and health item drop rates. Nightdive stated they intend the game to be a faithful restoration of the original version, but did say one thing they are changing is fixing a major bug in the NPC infection system, which didn't always work correctly in the original version; the bug would cause NPC's who had been cleared by a blood test to "burst out", despite the test showing they weren't infected. The Thing: Remastered (2024) was released on December 5, 2024 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Steam Deck, Windows PC, Xbox One & Xbox Series X/S.
Nightdive is a software studio specializing in remastering classic games to run on modern gaming systems, they have previously released remastered versions of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (1997), Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (1998), Forsaken (1998), Doom 64 (1997), Quake (1996), Blade Runner (1997) and Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster (2024).
Nightdive is a software studio specializing in remastering classic games to run on modern gaming systems, they have previously released remastered versions of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (1997), Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (1998), Forsaken (1998), Doom 64 (1997), Quake (1996), Blade Runner (1997) and Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster (2024).
On the board where you find the door code to the ice core room, there are several documents and photographs of the ice cave where the UFO and alien entity were found, which have several sentences in Norwegian written on them in red marker ink. Their English translation is as follows: "The blood speaks the truth"; "When we dug here we found the Devil himself, God have mercy on us"; "Devil's Cave"; "There is no turning back now"; "The Devil lives here"; and "If you value your life, keep your distance". The words are somewhat difficult to make out, but are much easier to see with the higher resolution graphics in The Thing: Remastered (2024).