Parallax Software is the Midwest game developer who created the Descent [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_%28computer_game%29) series. Parallax Software was started by Matt Toshlog and Mike Kulas. After Descent 2, the company split in two to form Volition Inc. [2] (http://www.volition-inc.com/) (Mike Kulas) in Champaign, Illinois, and Outrage Entertainment (Matt Toshlog) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Both companies were later bought by the publisher THQ [3] (http://www.thq.com), and in 2003 Outrage was shut down, but Volition Inc. continues to develop console games. Descent is a 3D first-person shooter computer game noted for popularizing the use of portal rendering technology and providing the player with six full degrees of freedom (often abbreviated 6DOF) to move and to look around. ... A view of Champaign from above ( see wider view). ... Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... THQ is an American video game publisher and developer, located in Calabasas Hills, California. ...