Interplay May Revive Descent and MDK Games
Descent may be the first revived IP from Interplay.
Has Interplay finally secured the funds to develop new Descent and MDK games? That's what website Duck and Cover indicated in a report based on an SEC filing by Interplay. Apparently the company is selling millions of shares of Interplay stock to Frederic Chesnais and MicroProse Software in an effort to secure funds for game development.
Interplay investor Frymuchan said on the DAC forums that Fredrick Chesnais agreed to fund 4 Interplay IP's in exchange for the shares and the option to purchase additional shares.
"Basically, the stock deal and options for Fredrick are a reward for getting four new Interplay games funded (this isn't confirmed yet, but this stock purchase makes it very, very likely that everything worked out, otherwise Fredrick would not have bought more shares)," Frymuchan wrote.
He also mentioned that the four games in question were Descent, Earthworm Jim, Dark Alliance, and MDK.
News of Interplay heading back to the four classic IPs isn't anything new--the company revealed its intentions in an April 2008 press release. Interplay's console-friendly Earthworm Jim has already seen a resurgence, appearing on Apple's App Store, the Wii Virtual Console and other platforms.
Let's hope that Interplay returns to the Kingpin franchise with a new chapter once it gets a better financial footing.
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The Descent series were great games. Theres been some third-party development since the source code was released like D2X-XL.
Oh man, the Descent games were incredible! After I bought the first, I had to have all the rest all the way through D3's expansion pack. I hope they make another! (I was actually talking to my friend just yesterday about how much fun we used to have playing Descent)
i'd love to play mdk again. ooohh.. and a new earthworm jim
Wow. I just reinstalled D3 today because I missed playing it. Descent is awesome and I'd love to see a modern version of it.
I would most like to see Earth Worm Jim. You know, because he's such a groovy guy
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I'm still waiting for the resurgence of Interplay. Maybe after Fallout MMO
Descent, good stuff, enough said.
I loved all the descent's. Real adrenalin rising games. I also miss all the great Microprose games like Covert Action, Lightspeed, and many others I don't recall at the moment,
thank you interplay! Please dish us up some freespace 3 dx11 goodness too!
Descent was my first and favorite online shooter of all time. I miss the days of planting proximity mines right behind doors and shooting mercury missles with their classic, "ch-waaa" sound. What I miss most of all was having to aim 3 (virtual) feet ahead of the enemy to make up for horrible pings over modem connections (almost as bad as the lag in current COD MW2 games).
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Ah, those were the days. Bring them back
Descent is the "Star Trek" of 3d shooters. It was ahead of its time and canceled to the dismay of many but holds a special, warm place in the hearts of those that loved playing it.
"Yes son, this is what computer games looked like when I was a boy..."
a dx11 version of mdk sounds great. decent not so much.
"Apparently the company is selling millions of shares of Interplay stock to Frederic Chesnais and MicroProse Software"
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't MicroProse go bankrupt and die black in the late 1990's?
I miss playing Descent with my Logitech Cyberman 3D mouse while drunk and turning my stomach until I vomited. Good times!
No really, it was a great game. I think it was the only one that supported my 3D mouse. If this computer had a serial port I could probably plug it in again!
I remember how amazed I was by the graphics in Descent III. Now I go back and look at them and they look as lame as Mass Effect 2 (lol).
P.S., I paid $50 for ME2 and HATE IT. Graphics look like 10 years ago. I hate when a game gets such great reviews then I buy it and HATE HATE HATE it. I guess I'm spoiled by COD MW2 and Crysis.
EARTHWORM JIM,
THE SOIL HE DID CRAWL
EARTHWORM JIM,
A SUPER SUIT DID FALL.
JIM WAS JUST A DIRT EATING,
CHEWING LENGTH OF WORM, FLASH
BUT ALL THAT CAME TO A CRASH
AND GAVE HIM LOTS OF POWER
EARTHWORM JIM,
HE'S SUCH A GROOVY GUY
EARTHWORM JIM,
HE ROCKET'S THROUGH THE SKY
CRUISING THROUGH THE UNIVERSE
HAVING LOT'S OF FUN,
HERE COMES EARTHWORM JIM YOU KNOW
THAT HE'S THE MIGHTY ONE
--- LOOK OUT ---
LA LA LA LA, LA LA LA LA, LA LA LA....
DESPITE HIS GREAT BIG MUSCLES
AND HIS REALLY BIG RAY GUN,
JIM IS STILL AN EARTHWORM
BUT THEN HE'S THE ONLY ONE,
WITH A SUPER SUIT TO MAKE HIM REALLY SUPER STRONG,
JIM CAN BE A WINNER IF WE ONLY SING ALONG...
(ALRIGHT)
EARTHWORM JIM,
WE THINK HE'S MIGHTY FINE
EARTHWORM JIM,
A HERO FOR ALL TIME
EARTHWORM,
EARTHWORM,
EARTHWORM,
EARTHWORM, JIM
HOORAY FOR JIMMMMMMMM
MDK is a great game, please make it right
So this French guy bought the MicroProse name from Atari (who itself is just a name purchased for the games division of Hasbro). And now Interplay who is pretty much just some other French guy, is going to get some developer to make some games using money from the Fallout License and the money the Microprose guy scammed from ??
Yahtzee should be happy that another space sim might be coming out.
Another Descent junkie.
Descent was the original pew pew pew FPS. Miss it.
Finally a brave company! I hope Lucasarts brings back the Xwing series, but this will hold me for a while!
oh man, I have been waiting for a new Descent for many years, all 3 were my favorite games when they came out. I would also love to see some new Freespace as well.
They wouldn't be wasting their time if they did start work on any of the mentioned games, all classics in my book.
Ah, I spent many hours playing Descent and Descent II in good ol' DOS. I also remember a few attempts at multiplayer using a direct dial through my 14.4kbps modem, lol. I wasn't a big fan of the Freespace games, but modernized versions of the originals would be awesome.
FreeSpace is my all time favorite Space flight game. Epic story, loads of fun. I hope they make another of those games. The last game left the story kind of hanging.
Bomberman would have been a better IP than some of the other games at least a new descent game could be cool though.
Never played Dark Alliance but spent many hours playing the other three. MDK was one of my favourite games of all time.
I hope the flight characteristics are identical to Descent 2... D3 screwed it all up. Felt like you were swimming through water instead of rocketing through zero g space.