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Wednesday21st Apr 2021
News Nintendo Switch Online Members Can Now Play Descenders For Free (Europe)
Check out the full game for a limited time
Nintendo's back with another Game Trials offer for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, this time giving players the chance to check out Descenders. Game Trials allow Switch Online members to download a game in full (not just a demo) and play it as much as they like for a limited time. In Descenders' case,...
Wednesday11th Nov 2020
News Descenders' Last Update Added A Secret World That 'Less Than 0.1% Of Players' Will Find
Challenge accepted
Two weeks ago, downhill biking game Descenders received a pretty significant update. What we – and indeed, everyone – didn't know at the time, however, was that the update added a secret new world. Mike Rose, of the game's publisher No More Robots, has revealed that developer Rage Squid has included "an entire new world in...
Monday9th Nov 2020
News Descenders Is Yet Another Switch Success Story, Six-Figure Revenue Earned In Opening Weekend
Becomes its publisher's "biggest Switch launch ever"
Last Friday saw the launch of Descenders on Nintendo Switch, an extreme downhill biking game that's been available on Steam and other consoles for several months now. Despite already being out in the wild elsewhere, the game's Switch launch has been a pretty major success. Mike Rose, of publisher...
Thursday5th Nov 2020
Nintendo Download 5th November (Europe)
Tropico 6! Jurassic World Evolution! TENS! Descenders!
The latest Nintendo Download update for Europe has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch Retail eShop - New Releases: Café Enchanté...
Nintendo Download 5th November (North America)
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, FUSER & Chicken Police!
The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch eShop - Highlights: Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin...
Friday24th Jan 2020
News Extreme Downhill Biking Game Descenders Launches Physically On Switch This Spring
After years in the making
It would appear that the Switch release of downhill biking game Descenders is finally starting to be pinned down, with No More Robots and Sold Out teaming up to release the game physically "this spring". The news comes alongside an announcement for a physical version on PS4, too, and we've also received this handy list of...
Thursday18th Jul 2019
News After An Uphill Struggle, Descenders On Switch Is On The Home Stretch
Still hazy with the release date, though
Descenders, the downhill mountain bike racer, has been on our radar for nearly two years now. We first reported on the game coming to Switch way back in July 2017. Later in August publisher No More Robots told us the
Monday12th Mar 2018
PS4 and Xbox One ports are the priority right now
We were pleased as punch to learn that Descenders - the insane, downhill mountain bike racer - was planned for Nintendo Switch, but like all ports, we're always a little cautious when a graphically-demanding game on PC is down-scaled to meet the technical limitations of a handheld. Thankfully, the...
Wednesday30th Aug 2017
News Response To Descenders On Switch Has Been "Incredible", Says No More Robots
"Nintendo has been super supportive to us"
Descenders is shaping up very nicely indeed, and publisher No More Robots has revealed to us that the response from Switch owners has been overwhelming - so much so that developer RageSquid is ramping up its efforts on Nintendo's system. No More Robots founder Mike Rose told us: Nintendo has been...
Thursday27th Jul 2017
News Descenders To Bring Extreme Downhill Freeriding To Switch Next Year
High-octane procedurally-generated worlds
We've just got word from new publishing label No More Robots that its first signing will be an extreme downhill freeriding game called Descenders, which should be arriving on all consoles sometime next year - including Nintendo Switch, of course. Descenders is being developed by none other...
