Descent
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Steam News · Jun 27, 2023
Classic shooter Descent, released in 1995, has gotten a facelift from some enterprising students who've added a fat stack of technical upgrades to the open, shareware fork of the game. Most notable is that perennial glory: pathtraced global illumination. It's what the kids these days are calling "ray traced lighting.".. Read more.
Steam News · Oct 5, 2018
For a while, I d forgotten about free-floating FPS Descent: Underground turns out it had just gone radio-silent for a retooling, announced here. Still being worked on by Descendent Studios and now backed by publisher Little Orbit, the game is now just called Descent , and is now a more single-player oriented game, diverging from the originally multiplayer-centric Undergr...
Steam News · Oct 4, 2018
Descent: Underground was successfully Kickstarted in April 2015, went to Early Access later that year, and then in September 2017 was taken down so the developers could focus on implementing single-player, tech trees, and the other cool features we’ve talked about. That was the final update on Steam until yesterday, when publisher Little Orbit dropped a new trailer and said that...
Steam News · Sep 8, 2016
Don t call it a comeback. Don t call it, like, three comebacks. Interplay, once renowned as a house of PC ideas, has failed to get back off the ground across various attempts at resurrection, and it seems matters have gone no better for whoever is currently wearing the well-worn skinsuit. Interplay has just announced a firesale of various intellectual properties. Which me...
Steam News · Mar 11, 2016
Edit: and it made it, with just under two hours to go. Yer new Descent will be a reality, then. Congrats to Revival. The bums, they are a-squeakin . There are just four hours left on the Kickstarter clock for Overload, the game from the core creators of the original Descent, and it appears they need to round up the best part of $20k in that time. A photo finish is not at all impossible, but ...
Steam News · Mar 8, 2016
The folks who co-created Descent in the 90s have released a playable demo of Overload , their spiritual successor to the fine zero-gravity spaceship shooter series. With less than three days left on their Kickstarter campaign, they re just over half-way to their $300,000 goal ( 210k-ish). Er, Alice, you interrupt, I m not being funny, but didn t they K...
Steam News · Feb 10, 2016
Remember that Descent game Kickstarted by people by who didn t make Descent? Here s an unofficial Descent remakequel Kickstarted by people who did make Descent. If Descent was on your Kickstarted comeback bingo card, then today s the day to wave your pen in the air. Mike Kulas and Matt Toschlog, lead creators of the 1990s beloved six-degrees of freedom spaceshippy FPS, hav...
Steam News · Dec 30, 2015
Yeah yeah, Steam sale, but if you're in the mood for Old Games (the 'Good' part is debatable), you might want to check out GOG's Interplay sale. The retailer has discounted lots of classic/ancient PC games including MDK, Messiah, Stonekeep, Lionheart and....OK, so it's not the best sale in the world. I mainly find it interesting because of what's missing: namely, Descent 1, 2 and 3, whic...
Steam News · Oct 24, 2015
Reimagining classic 90s video games is something crowdfunding platforms seem cut out for. Ah, nostalgia, what a wondrous thing. It s been some 15 years since a Descent game reached our telly screens, and 21 years since the first a pioneering space shooter with six degrees of freedom did the same. After barely succeeding on Kickstarter earlier this year, the multiplayer-focuse...
Steam News · Oct 7, 2015
While not the only Descent-style revival of recent times, the six-axis floaty base exploration genre is still woefully underfed. Sublevel Zero arrives to help with that, taking a more rogue-lite, randomised approach to the notion. Am I spinning with glee, or nose-diving with disappointment? Here s wot I think: