Null of Hope, a retro first-person adventure RPG produced by Wade Arcade, gives a new twist to the genre and puts you in the game like never before. A ‘list and click’ variant of the popular ‘point and click’ games of the ’80s and ’90s, Null of Hope faithfully reproduces the vibe with period art and music.
We wrote yesterday how Texas based code-house Phaser Lock Interactive was to debut their new VR airport management title Final Approach at PAX Prime in Seattle from Friday. Well, feast your eyes on the very first trailer to accompany the game’s debut at the show.
Phaser Lock Interactive, a developer formed from veteran coders from the games industry, are to bring their SteamVR HTC Vive launch title Final Approach to PAX Prime in Seattle this weekend. The team will have HTC Vive hardware at the show to show off the game.
Resolution Games, a company formed from mobile development veterans, has announced it’s to receive $6 million in funding from Google’s investment arm to make VR games everyone can play.
Virtual reality is probably doing something right if people are poking fun at it and in a new skit from the Jimmy Kimmel Live talk show, Facebook’s relationship with Oculus and that social network’s possible VR future is mercilessly ribbed by the show’s host.
Lightning Rock is a small development company based in Australia who are working on a retro inspired action puzzler called Marble Mountain who’s Steam Greenlight campaign is currently doing rather well.
HTC Vive title Hover Junkers creators StressLevelZero felt that their house pet Bandit was missing out on all the room-scale VR goodness enjoyed by the rest of the clan, so they rigged up a controller and put him in VR.
KartKraft, a go-kart sim created by Melbourne based games studio Black Delta, revealed VR-compatibility at Gamescom 2015 for their upcoming title. I had a chance to hop into their 6-degree-of-freedom hexapod motion simulator to race along a laser-scanned, virtual version of Geelong Karting Club in Melbourne, Australia.
Kat Walk, the newest addition to the lineup of VR treadmills, has raised a total of $149,278, putting them well over their initial $100,000 Kickstarter funding goal. KatVR, the China based company behind the VR locomotion device, have announced that non-Kickstarter pre-orders for the device will be coming soon.
To fans of Star Trek, space will always be ‘the Final Frontier’, but I wouldn’t be so sure that VR can’t also make that claim. Enterprises, a project headed by indie dev William Palmer, shows off a 1:1 scale of eight different Enterprise Starships, spanning the Star Trek franchise from 1966 to present day.
Null of Hope takes your memories of 8 bit illustrated adventure games, turning on it’s head whilst throwing the lot into an immersive VR powered experience. Watch the debut trailer.
