Hite joined Decipher but eventually left and became part of the staff of Steve Jackson Games,[1]: 317–318  where he wrote GURPS WWII: Weird War II for the Generic Universal RolePlaying System.

[2] In February 2008, Pelgrane Press published Hite's Trail of Cthulhu, a role-playing game using the GUMSHOE System developed by Robin Laws.

Hite's second GUMSHOE System game, Night's Black Agents, was released in 2012; players take the role of burned spies in the underworld of contemporary Europe who are suddenly confronted by the existence of vampires.

Later that year, he joined the staff of Pelgrane Press full-time,[8] and began a series of monthly books of gaming material under the title Ken Writes About Stuff, which concluded in 2016 after three "volumes".

In addition to his work for Pelgrane, Hite has collaborated with Dennis Detwiller, Greg Stolze and Shane Ivey on the second edition of the Wild Talents RPG and the supplement Grim War.

He wrote Day after Ragnarok, a genre-bending post-apocalyptic setting published by Atomic Overmind Press, and collaborated in Bubblegumshoe with Emily Care Boss and Lisa J. Steele, for Evil Hat Productions.

[2] In his current employment with Pelgrane Press, Hite has contributed extensively to the GUMSHOE System, as author of Trail of Cthulhu, and the supplements Shadows Over Filmland, Rough Magicks, Bookhounds of London, and Mythos Expeditions; also the RPG Night's Black Agents and its major campaign The Dracula Dossier.