High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Thing is a third person survival horror video game developed by Computer Artworks and published under the Black Label Games banner, a collaboration between Universal Interactive (later Vivendi Games) and Konami. It was released in North America for the PlayStation 2 on August 19, 2002, on the PC on August 20, 2002 and on the Xbox on September 9, 2002. It is a sequel to John Carpenter`s 1982 film The Thing.