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VR First-Person Shooters & eSports with ‘World War Toons’

James Chung, CEO and Founder of Reload Studios
James Chung, CEO and Founder of Reload Studios

At PAX West, Reload Studios made a strong push for cultivating World War Toons as a VR eSports title. They were livestreaming a couple of shoutcasters announcing a four-on-four player capture the flag game of World War Toons, which is a free-to-play, VR first-person shooter. This was all preparation for Twitchcon this past weekend where they were on the expo floor with the same configuration, except with PlayStation VR headsets instead of Oculus Rifts.

I had a chance to catch up with Reload Studios CEO James Chung at PAX West where we talk about motion sickness with VR first-person shooters with different VR comfort options, their integrations with the Virtuix Omni, their free-to-play business model, and VR eSports as well as the future of streaming in VR.

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New Trailer for World War Toons Open Beta Released

When Sony Interactive Entertainment’s (SIE) PlayStation VR launches in just 12 days time Reload Studios will launch its open beta for World War Toons. The first-person, World War 2-themed shooter has now got a new trailer to celebrate that fact, showcasing the crazy cartoon carnage that awaits.

The trailer for World War Toons is just as bombastic as the videogame it’s promoting, proclaiming ‘Virtual reality is coming!’ at the start before diving headlong into some of the features players will soon be getting their hands on. From bazooka shooting and tank riding to character changing, piano dodging mayhem. It’s a fun filled look at the free multiplayer title, with giant walking red bombs, hamsters, chickens, face slaps, massive missiles being ridden, gun galore, pigs and loads of other zany ideas thrown in for good measure.

Reload Studios has been going all out over the past few weeks, revealing new characters such as the officer class General Mayhem, who’s a demolition expert and Sturm Shark, who’s German and a shark. There’s also been two female snipers, from Russia on the Allied side is Russian Olga Sniperova and from Austria there’s Adele Weiss. And because World War Toons doesn’t take itself seriously there’s a gorilla called Kongo who can hold three panzerschrecks under his arm and Tom Yeti who has the persona of an over exaggerated Swiss yodeller.

VRFocus will continue its coverage of World War Toons, reporting back with any further updates.