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Team17’s First VR Game is Original IP Killer Frequency
Of all the new virtual reality (VR) titles announced this week probably the most surprising was Killer Frequency. Coming from the same studio behind the Worms franchise, this is the first VR project from Team17 and it’s a comedy-horror of all things.
Killer Frequency centres around a local radio station set in a 1980s mid-American town where a serial killer is on the loose. You work the night shift night and have to help listeners as they’re stalked by the mysterious masked killer who’s looking to up their kill count.
As the evening DJ, you’ll be playing tunes and answering calls from listeners, engaging in conversations to carefully uncover clues and useful information. Killer Frequency will feature branching dialogue so you’ll have a variety of conversation options to interact with callers. You’ll be able to decide whether to help them or not, with multiple unlockable endings available depending on those choices.
When not making life or death decisions you’ll still have puzzles to solve, potential suspects to investigate and a charismatic producer to chat to, all while enjoying a jukebox of 1980s-inspired tunes.
But you’re not stuck in a DJ booth 24/7, you can get up and explore over 1 km² of an authentically detailed 1980s radio station featuring plenty of physics-based objects. That includes era-specific tech like a working turntable and a cassette player.
While Killer Frequency is Team17’s own in-house VR game, the studio has dipped its toes in the technology before. It helped publish Lethal VR by Three Fields Entertainment, and then there was the promising horror Allison Road that was cancelled.
Killer Frequency will be coming to Meta Quest 2 as well as Steam – non-VR, only flat screen – later this year. As Team17 release further details on its first original VR IP, gmw3 will keep you updated.
Every canceled video game NFT project (so far)
From Discord to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, here are all of the gaming NFT initiatives that have been canceled or walked back.
MetaWorms Are Team17’s Entry Into the NFT Market
“Oh no, not another NFT!” You may say but this time it comes from Team17 and its popular Worms franchise. Called MetaWorms, Team17 is collaborating with Reality Gaming Group on the new venture which will feature content from the videogame’s 26-year history whilst being “environmentally friendly”.
Apart from the image above, Team17 and Reality Gaming Group (RGG) – creators of augmented reality (AR) title Reality Clash – have yet to reveal what the MetaWorms collection will actually look like. What is known its that the NFTs will be created and managed by RGG’s Digital Asset Trading (DAT) Platform, connected to its “own “side-chain” of the Ethereum mainnet.”
NFTs and cryptocurrencies are well known to consume significant portions of energy. The announcement claims that MetaWorms will: “offer substantial reductions to the amount of energy used per transaction,” 100,000 NFTs using as much energy on average as the “annual kettle usage of just 11 households.” So that’s nicely cleared up.
Adding to the environmental credentials – if they matter to you when buying an NFT – the companies have partnered with Coin 4 Planet. This is a sustainability platform that donates a portion of each NFT sale to Refeed Farms, which uses vertical worm beds to replace synthetic fertilizers and replenish soil.
“Worms remains an iconic franchise in global gaming with tens of millions of fans around the world, so we’re really excited and proud to announce our partnership with Reality Gaming Group ahead of the release of highly limited edition artwork NFTs later this year,” says Harley Homewood, Head of Publishing, Team17 Digital, in a statement. The ultra-low energy technology Reality Gaming Group uses, together with their carbon neutral servers, played an essential part of the reassurances we sought before our agreement; we’re very much looking forward to giving Worms fans a chance to own a piece of our history.”
Currently, there isn’t a lot of additional information with a very basic MetaWorms website and a Discord channel with an empty roadmap.
To learn more about NFTs gmw3 has created a ” What is an NFT Guide“. When further details regarding MetaWorms are available we’ll let you know.
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