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On the up - Cyberpunk shooter-RPG The Ascent is making the jump to PlayStation platforms after roughly seven months of exc...

The Escapist interviews Arcade Berg, creative director & co-founder of Neon Giant, about open-world top-down shooter The Ascent.

May 7, 2021 09:00 EDT Few indie games can pull off an explosive debut as The Ascent did at the Xbox Series X showcase event in May 2020. Developed by the Swedish indie studio known as Neon Giant (founded by former Bulletstorm and Wolfenstein developers ), The Ascent impressed many right away with its blend of triple-A graphics production values and high-octane top-down shooting, a mix that we don't exactly see every day. But The Ascent promises much more than that, including classic roleplaying elements like character progression and loot, four-player coop support, and the ability to fre...

30/04/211 When the megacorporation The Ascent Group collapses, so too does the whole arcology built on the foundations of its absolute dominion. With such a power vacuum in Cluster 13, and so many people suddenly freed, the whole cityscape naturally carves itself up into factions and starts vying for control. It’s into this powder keg of a situation that Xbox and PC exclusive The Ascent drops you, tasking you with blasting your way to the truth. Dystopian futures are a dime a dozen these days – heck, we might even be living in one, for all I know – and The Ascent certainly draws on a l...