Little Orbit is a worldwide developer and publisher of retail and digital video games. We sometimes publish affiliate links on VGC. "Our strong preference of course, is to re-engage Interplay and procure another license and release as a Descent product - that will need to be negotiated after the court has their say in the dispute listed above.". Today, some news sites reported our January lawsuit against Descendent Studios and CEO Eric Peterson, and I would like to send a message to the backers of Descent: Underground and fans of the franchise. DESCENT is a registered trademark or trademark of Interplay Entertainment Corp. in the U.S. and other countries. Customize them with noses, wings, skins, paint jobs, and a forest of tech tree upgrades.
Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors. Little Orbit alleges that the content that was delivered didn’t meet the agreed quality standards, compelling it to invest more funds in additional development capacity outside of Descendent. Descendent launched a countersuit, alleging that it was Little Orbit's demands for additional console ports and other technical work that caused the delays, and that the publisher had failed to meet its financial commitments and promotional obligations. The Descendent Studios web site and the Descent 2019 (Descent: Underground) game servers are now down. -28. Without that licence a game called Descent can't be released, but as Descendent says, "If no agreement is reached, the game could be released as the original pre-kickstarter title "Ships that Fight Underground" or something else, as Descendent Studios owns the assets and the game IP. The project received additional funding when Little Orbit signed on to publish it in September 2017, with the intention of bringing it to consoles as well as PC, but Descendent is alleged to have missed multiple project milestones and planned release dates, the last of which was scheduled for February 2019. “Upon information and belief, Descendent fraudulently induced Little Orbit to commit to fund payroll as part of the Terms Sheet Amendment with no actual intent or desire to provide concrete deliverables on specific dates, including a delivery date for the final PC version,” the lawsuit alleges. Well, Descendent issued an update this week saying work has come on and they do still plan to release it, even if they can’t use the Descent name and have to call it “Ships That Fight Underground” or something. Experience 6-degrees-of-freedom as you explore twisting mazes and cavernous maps. Thank you for signing up to PC Gamer. VIEW ALL NEWS. I do not know all the details, but apparently they are not delivering on their promises for resources, such as testers, GUI developers, console ports and funding. The update also mentions that after the legal dispute began the owner of the Descent name, Interplay, ended its trademark licence agreement. The publisher also believes that Interplay cancelled its license of the Descent trademark to Descendent. Our mission is to introduce a new dynamic to … 1 talking about this.
June 19, 2018 | PC. © It appears their new publisher Little Orbit is the cause of the delay in development.
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Every E3 I walk away from a demo grinning from ear to ear and Little Orbit’s Descent was one of those experiences. In court documents filed in January 2020, Little Orbit accuses Descendent Studios and Peterson of breach of contract, negligent representation, fraud, and trade libel/commercial disparagement. Receive news and offers from our other brands? If a trademark agreement can't be reached, it may have to be released under another name. According to the suit, several former Star Citizen developers left Cloud Imperium Games in 2014 to establish Descendent Studios and create a game inspired by Descent. Publisher Little Orbit has sued Texas-based Descendent Studios and its CEO Eric Peterson over the failure to complete a long-in-development prequel to the influential space FPS series Descent. Visit our corporate site. ABOUT DESCENT. In court documents filed in January 2020, Little Orbit accuses Descendent Studios and Peterson of breach of contract, negligent representation, fraud, and trade libel/commercial disparagement.
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A video, "captured from one of our latest builds", shows part of the first mission and some of the ship customization, and adds, "We have 17 missions overall, (one is for training) an estimated 30-40 hours of single player story based content, unlimited vs bots action as well as survival mode and in addition, we have more than a dozen multiplayer maps".
Publisher Little Orbit has sued Texas-based Descendent Studios and its CEO Eric Peterson over the failure to complete a long-in-development prequel to the influential space FPS series Descent. I'd like to see what it's like with the motion blur turned off, and maybe the inertia tweaked a bit, but it's certainly got the basics of a 6DOF shooter. Descent is reborn! With that in mind, I do want to say the following: Descendent Studios has shut down their website/forums and ceased working on the game. A reboot of the classic six-degrees-of-freedom shooter Descent was Kickstarted in 2015, raising $601,773. The new Descent continues in this tradition, giving players absolute freedom of movement. Little Orbit also wants the court to rule over who holds the contested intellectual property rights for the project. The following year Descendent entered into an agreement to license the Descent name from Interplay, changed the title of the project to Descent: Underground, and raised over $600,000 through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to help bring it to life. r/descendentstudios: Descendent Studios is a game development company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Days Gone and MediEvil join PlayStation Now in October’s Halloween-themed update, Now a boy and his mother have filed a $5m Joy-Con drift lawsuit, Nintendo is reportedly arguing that Joy-Con drift ‘isn’t a real problem’, Nintendo wins $2 million in damages from Switch hacking device seller, Journalist says Xbox Series X can get ‘hot like a fireplace’, Astro’s Playroom designer says bundled PS5 game helped iterate DualSense ‘for nearly two years’, Xbox boss thinks 8K might never be the standard in video games, Here’s what Cyberpunk 2077’s full map looks like, PS5’s quiet cooling ‘is even more impressive than its loading times’, praises Japanese hands-on. Brave pilots fight deep within asteroids- their triumphs and tragedies broadcast back to Earth as entertainment... and a way to distract the teeming masses from the grumbling of their empty bellies. Future US, Inc. 11 West 42nd Street, 15th Floor, For more information read our affiliate linking policy. Releasing a game called Ships That Fight Underground would be worth it for the abbreviation alone. Notice: To display this embed please allow the use of Functional Cookies in Cookie Preferences. Descent is reborn!
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