Blood & Truth Headlines Top Picks From The Incredible PSVR Summer Sale

The PSVR Summer Sale (or Sales) is on, and there are some incredible deals going.

Summer’s heatwave might not be the best time to jump into VR. It’s way too hot for Beat Saber and your headset’s going to get all sweaty and smelly. But some of these prices will make you want to block out the sun and bathe in the rays of a screen meer millimeters away from your eyes instead. I’m sure that gives you just as many vitamins and whatnot, right? No?

Anyway, both the US and EU PlayStation Store territories are hosting hefty discounts.

The US side offers some hearty deals on the likes of Borderlands 2 VR, Arizona Sunshine and more. There isn’t much that’s truly show-stealing, but it’s a good opportunity to pick up some of the better titles you might have missed over the past few years.

To be honest, though, the EU summer sale puts the US to shame. Recent hits like Blood And Truth have already had their prices slashed by a good margin. Meanwhile, some of VR’s core staples like Superhot VR are down to some of the lowest prices we’ve seen them go. We’ve rounded up our list of top picks below, but be sure to get a good look through your respective store too. If you’ve got a PS Plus account then make sure to look out for some extra discounts too.

Just remember to keep a cold glass of water near you’re if you’re about to start putting in Firewall all-nighters.  Maybe invest in a fan, too.

UploadVR’s PSVR Summer Sale Top Picks

Blood & Truth£19.99/$31.99

Astro Bot Rescue Mission£15.99

Superhot VR£11.99/$17.49

Borderlands 2 VR£24.99/$24.99

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR£19.99

The Inpatient£9.49/$9.99

Arizona Sunshine£12.99 (£9.69 Plus)/$13.99

Firewall Zero Hour£15.99 (£13.49 Plus)

Tetris Effect£19.99/$24.79

Killing Floor: Incursion£7.99 (£6.39 Plus)/$9.99

Megaton Rainfall£6.49

Farpoint£7.99/$9.99

Transference£12.99

A Fisherman’s Tale£7.79

Statik£7.99 (£3.99 Plus)/$5.99

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Something for the Weekend: PSVR Halloween Hijinx (2018 Edition)

As we’re only a couple of days away from a major holiday – though how ‘major’ Halloween actually is probably depends more on where you live, than anything – you’d expect there’d be Halloween sales on all over the place. And you’d be right, as we’ve already featured several offers for suitably spooky virtual reality (VR) experiences on the site throughout October. Viveport being a recent example.

PlayStation VRHowever, this week’s scheduled platform for Something For The Weekend is PlayStation VR; and there hasn’t actually been anything much on the PlayStation Store expressly for VR.  That said there are still titles on sale, and ones that are a part of their own Halloween offer. So, let’s look at those titles and content packs that have made the (price) cut.

Please note: Deals are accurate as of the UK PlayStation Store and may not be available in all regions. Also, PS Plus membership may also result in additional money off on some titles.

Until Dawn: Rush of Blood

To quote VRFocus’ review on the title: “Until Dawn is a story driven horror videogame, with the player’s in-game decisions having a direct influence on the outcome for each of the characters involved. A convoluted journey through an unwelcoming world. Until Dawn: Rush of Blood is a far more straight forward affair. It’s a shooting gallery, pure and simple, but when played in VR it’s far more appealing than could it could ever sound on paper.”

Until Dawn: Rush of Blood is currently available for £7.99 (GBP), effectively half price from its usual mark of £15.99.

Kona VR Bundle

The first of several bundles featuring VR to get a price drop on the PlayStation Store this week, the Kona VR Bundle includes the full game Kona, plus the upgrade to VR DLC. Kona puts players in the role of a detective hired to investigate the vandalism of a businessman’s summer home. The local Canadian community is suspected of being behind things, but  the detective finds the area deserted. So, what is really going on?

The Kona VR Bundle is currently available for £7.99, half price from £15.99.

The Exorcist: Legion VR – Complete Series

To quote Rebecca when she recently reviewed chapter five of Wolf & Wood’s VR excursion into the greater world of The Exorcist: “NOPE! NOPE! NOPE!” If you want a good scare, this bundle of all five chapters is right up your street.

The compete series is 28% off currently on PlayStation Store, from £24.99 to £17.99.

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Oasis Games Shooter Bundle

Not everything with money off this week can be classified as a horror game.

While the VR releases from Oasis Games aren’t everyone’s cup of tea (see: Ace Banana) there are some that are worth a look (see: Pixel Gear). This bundle gives you the option to check out both ends of the spectrum, with the pair getting a hefty discount from £19.99 to a far more reasonable £6.19 – a 69% discount. You can find it on the PlayStation Store here.

DOOM VFR

DOOM VFR brings the fast-paced, brutal gameplay fans of the series love to virtual reality.” Says the PlayStation Store description. “Immerse yourself in the UAC facility on Mars and the depths of Hell, as your skills are put to the test through intense combat and challenging puzzle-solving. Play as a cybernetic survivor who is activated by the UAC to fight the demon invasion, maintain order, and prevent catastrophic failure at the Mars facility. ”

What more is there to say? Get ripping and tearing for £12.99, just over a third off the regular £19.99 price.

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Killing Floor: Incursion

A standalone experience based on Tripwire Interactive’s Killing Floor franchise, Killing Floor: Incursion takes players into the world of the Horzine Security Forces as they team up with allies to fend off the horrific Zed hordes using pistols, shotguns, blades and more.

Save 36% on Killing Floor: Incursion now from £24.99 to £15.99.

Killing Floor: Incursion screenshot

Weeping Doll

Another Oasis Games title, Weeping Doll is only £2.49 for a short time. Playing as the maid of a Japanese family living in a very Victorian looking home, Weeping Doll has players exploring different environments to solve puzzles as a tortured girl’s doll takes revenge on her parents.

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Arizona Sunshine

Its Halloween, so of course Vertigo Games’ zombie shooter is in the deal. There’s a hefty 60% off the title, clocking in at £12.99 (down from £32.99) and it’s also one of those titles that has a possible PS Plus discount.

Find out why so many want to play it and why it’s one of the titles making the leap to becoming a location-based experience (LBE). Just try to keep your brains and blood inside yourself when you do.

Arizona Sunshine PlayStation VR screenshot

The Inpatient

“Discover true fear at the abandoned Blackwood Pines Sanatorium. Awaken into a living nightmare as a patient with no memory of who you are – in a spine-chilling mystery set 60 years before the events of PS4 hit Until Dawn. Live the horror through the immersion of VR as deep, personal fears, psychological terror and heart-shredding jump scares wait in the darkness.”

Get ready to wrestle with more than a few moral dilemmas as you figure out who you can trust in the PSVR title from Supermassive Games. Save £14 on the regular store price for a limited time, with the price at £15.99.

Random Note of Appreciation: Whoever changed the “Key Features” on the standard store description to “Key Symptoms”? Well done. We loved that little detail even if no one else noticed it.

Check out more titles on next week’s edition of Something for the Weekend as we head into November.

Here’s All The PlayStation VR Titles Releasing This Spring

Sony have announced a large number of virtual reality (VR) titles that will be coming to PlayStation VR and PlayStation 4 in Spring of this year.

Rick and Morty screenshot

Following the release of stunning VR recently on PlayStation VR including Moss, The Inpatient and Sprint Vector, PlayStation VR is set to keep up the releases with over 30 titles releasing this Spring. There are a wide range of different VR titles on the list, ranging from relaxing experiences to action packed titles where players will be busy in heated combat.

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Some of the standout titles from the list include Rick And Morty: Virtual Rick-Ality, which VRFocus’ Senior Writer Peter Graham reviewed last year on PC saying: “If you enjoy this style of interactive VR experience then you’ll appreciate Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality even if you’ve not seen the cartoon, there’s even sections catering to first-person shooter (FPS) fans. Really though this is a video game for those that love Rick and Morty, and quite frankly that’s no bad thing. Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality is a madcap, fun filled adventure from start to finish, perfectly suiting VR’s qualities, it should not be missed.”

Pixel Ripped 1989 is also making its way to PlayStation VR and is set to release on 22nd May, 2018. VRFocus sat down with the developer, Ana Ribeiro to talk about the VR titles release and development which you can see for yourself here.

You can see the full list of PlayStation VR titles below which once again, will releasing this Spring. Of course, it is always possible there could be delays but should all go well players will be able to all of the following in the coming months.

  • Anamorphine
  • Apocalypse Rider
  • Ark Park
  • Chromagun VR
  • CoolpaintrVR
  • Crisis of the Planet of the Apes
  • Flatline Experience The Other Side
  • Floor Plan
  • Headbutt Factory
  • Hopalong: The Badlands
  • Island Time
  • Just in Time Inc.
  • Killing Floor: Incursion
  • MLB Home Run Derby VR
  • Nothin’ But Net
  • One Piece Grand Cruise
  • Pixel Ripped 1989
  • Prana
  • Preta: Vendetta Rising
  • Quar Infernal Machines
  • RadianVR
  • Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
  • Rooms the Unsolvable Puzzle
  • Separation
  • Smash Hit Plunder
  • Super Amazeballs
  • Super Kaiju
  • Syren
  • The Perfect Sniper
  • Time Carnage
  • Tom
  • VR Apocalypse
  • War Robots VR: The Skirmish
  • Xing: The Land Beyond

VRFocus will be sure to bring you all the latest for these titles in the future so stay tuned for more.

Japanese Trailer For The Inpatient Features Creepy Developer Interviews

We’ve been excited for The Inpatient since its Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) reveal last year. We’ve followed the videogame every step of the way, from theorising that it was related to Supermassive Games’ other title, Until Dawn, to playing the virtual reality (VR) videogame for ourselves. Now the videogame is finally out for everyone to enjoy, and there’s a brand new trailer on the PlayStation Japan YouTube channel which features some interviews with the developers as they talk about their latest VR videogame. You can watch the trailer embedded below.

We received a new teaser trailer for The Inpatient not too long before launch, showing what the player must undergo during their time at the creepy Blackwood Pines Sanatorium.

While the trailer below is on the PlayStation Japan YouTube channel, all of the original interviews were performed in English and their voices remain, so English speaking viewers can watch without concern. There are, of course, Japanese subtitles overlaid for the viewers it is intended for.

As the developers and team at Supermassive Games talk about the videogame in the interview, the edit of the video makes them appear to move quickly and unnaturally, highlighting the creepy tension one should expect from a VR horror experience. In Japan, the videogame is called The Inpatient: Dark Ward.

When previewing the videogame, we said; “The Inpatient looks set to offer an experience completely different to its predecessor Until Dawn – they’re both set in the same universe – a far more tactile tale, where exploring the story is much more key. It might be because of the hospital theme but playing the demo instantly feels very reminiscent of Wilson’s Heart for Oculus Rift and that’s no bad thing. If Supermassive Games can create an engaging storyline and gameplay to go with the impressive visuals then PlayStation VR might have another hit on its hands.”

You can of course see the full trailer below, offering viewers a look behind the scenes at development and giving those not yet able to play the videogame a chance to understand what they can expect. For more on The Inpatient, make sure to keep reading VRFocus.

PSVR’s The Inpatient Debuts In Top 10 In UK Games Chart

PSVR’s The Inpatient Debuts In Top 10 In UK Games Chart

It looks like Supermassive Games might have something of a VR hit on its hands with The Inpatient.

GFK, the game sales-tracking group in the UK, just published its weekly list of the 40 best-selling retail titles over the last seven days. Surprisingly, The Inpatient just squeezed in at the #10 spot. We don’t know the exact sales figures, but we’re pretty sure this is the first new PSVR exclusive game since launch to make it into the top ten; even the hugely-popular Skyrim VR only made it to #19 on its launch week, though minigame compliation PlayStation VR Worlds has often charted highly.

What makes it all the more impressive is that last week was a big one for standard videogame releases; Capcom’s Monster Hunter World and Bandai Namco’s Dragon Ball Fighter Z both released in the past week. Pair that with the fact PSVR’s global install base is significantly lower than the other consoles games on the list debut on and The Inpatient deserves a pat on the back.

The game is a prequel to Supermassive’s popular horror game, Until Dawn, which might help explain some of its sales. It also helps that it’s priced a lot lower than other big titles, costing £25 (whereas Monster Hunter, for example, would set you back at least £40).

We quite liked The Inpatient, though it’s hampered somewhat by poor controls. “As a prequel to Until Dawn, it does a great job of fleshing out the lore a bit more, but it’s a bit short to really stand on its own,” our own David Jagneaux said in his review. “That being said, the moments that are there and the scares that they produce are totally worth experiencing.”

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The Biggest PSVR Releases Of The Week 01/21/17

The Biggest PSVR Releases Of The Week 01/21/17

We finally have new games to talk about! It’s been a slow few weeks for Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) but 2018 officially kicks off here with the release of two new games.

UploadVR has also launched the ‘UploadVR PSVR Community’ on PlayStation 4! Join up, find other gamers to play with, and engage in discussions with them. Also, don’t forget to check out our list of the 9 Best PlayStation VR Games if you need any extra inspiration.

The Inpatient, from Supermassive Games
Price: $29.99

The long-awaited prequel to Until Dawn is finally here; The Inpatient is a psychological VR horror game set years before the events of the original game. You’re a patient at a mental asylum trying to make a hasty escape, but all is not what it seems. This is a creepy little VR game, though we found that the awkward controls held it back from greatness.

StarDrone VR, from Beatshapers
Price: $7.99

An arcade puzzle game gets a VR conversion. Aim and shoot a spinning disc across levels, trying to gather stars as you go. It’s a meticulous challenge that can be fun to play, though there’s really not much reason for it to be in VR. Cheap, though.

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The Inpatient Livestream: Welcome To The Sanatorium

The Inpatient Livestream: Welcome To The Sanatorium

The Inpatient is finally out for PSVR. You can read our full review to see what we thought, but we’re also going to dive into the game again for your viewing pleasure in a just a short while.

In The Inpatient, players take on the role of someone locked up at the Blackwood Pines Sanatorium unsure of who they are or why they’re in this place. You’ll be tormented by horrific nightmares, voices in your head, and terrifying hallucinations. It’s just a swell time.

We’re aiming to start the livestream around 2:30PM PT and will go for about a half hour to an hour — we don’t want to spoil too much! You can watch the stream right here when it’s live and afterwards once it’s archived:

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Now that we’re in the new year we’re going to get back to streaming much more often. For past game streams, you can check out our archived videos all in this one handy Livestream playlist over on the official UploadVR YouTube channel (which you should totally subscribe to by the way).

Let us know which games you want us to livestream next. Comment with your feedback and let us know what you think down below!

Update: We’ve updated the start time of the stream, listed above!

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The Inpatient Review: A Terrifying Trip Down Memory Lane

The Inpatient Review: A Terrifying Trip Down Memory Lane

I’m typically not a fan of the “amnesiac protagonist” trope because it feels like a cheap way to force feed the player narrative details without any creative thought. But in the case of The Inpatient by Supermassive Games, a slow-paced psychological about a mental sanatorium in the snowy, Canadian mountains, the main character’s lack of memory is an essential part of the premise and story.

The Inpatient takes place on the same snow-covered mountain as Supermassive’s original Until Dawn (2015), just several decades earlier. Your character is a patient at a dark, creepy sanatorium in which archaic and painful experiments are just as common as the nightmares that follow. Knowledge of the successive game isn’t necessary to enjoy The Inpatient, but it certainly enhances and refines the experience.

While completing my stay as a patient, I briefly had a roommate that was convinced something more sinister was going on. I also interacted with an oppressive doctor that interrogated me, a few nurses that ranged from caring to suspicious, and a handful of other characters peppered throughout it all.

The main issue with The Inpatient is that, in its attempt to make you feel like the center of the story, it loses sight of the game’s supporting cast. What made Until Dawn so great is how expertly it juggled half a dozen characters and made you care about (or loathe) them all. But in the case of The Inpatient, you never spend long enough getting to know anyone to develop a relationship or see any progression of their motives or personalities.

This lack of real meat to the characters is amplified by the fact that the sense of presence and immersion is at its best when you’re talking to those same characters. The facial animations aren’t as good as Until Dawn’s or LA Noire VR’s, but they’re a step above most other VR games. And when you speak to characters and make dialog selections, you can do so by using your actual voice. As in, you literally speak the dialog choice out loud instead of picking it with the controller. Pressing X is still an option, but I opted to speak all of my choices. As long as there wasn’t a lot of background noise it understood me every time.

Honestly, every VR game needs this feature. Hearing a voice actor’s voice emanate from my face while I’m standing there in my character’s shoes in VR is one of the fastest ways to break immersion for me. By speaking things out loud, it sells the illusion that much more.

Sprinkled throughout the first half of the game (in total it’s about three hours long) are brief scenes rife with hallucinations and jump scares and I found myself tensing up in preparation for each of these moments. The slow-building tension, audio cues to guide your perspective, and esoteric imagery are all pitch-perfect on PSVR and it really underscores how much Supermassive must have learned while working on Until Dawn: Rush of Blood. The Inpatient is easily one of the creepiest VR games I’ve played.

There are also several moments in which the screen goes completely black and lets you hear some creepy voices in your head, which I assume is to do some quick behind-the-scenes loading, but it starts to get old near the end. Full loading screens with progress bars also happen far more often than I’d like to see in a VR game.

It’s really a shame that the controls aren’t better either. When using a DualShock 4 controller you can move forward with the left stick and rotate the camera with the right (either smoothly or in increments) but pressing back on the right stick is how you turn around and if you press diagnolly at all, it triggers the 180 turn, which means it will happen a lot when you’re just trying to rotate your view.

Using the Move controllers was a bit worse in my experience. You hold the Move button to go where your head is pointing and twist the right Move to rotate, but it was difficult to walk and look in a different direction at the same time. The result was that I felt like a tank that had to stop and pivot to turn anywhere — the sensation isn’t quite as bad with the DualShock 4. You lose hand presence, but the game has so few interactive moments as-is it wasn’t that big of a deal for slightly more tolerable controls.

True to the formula established in Until Dawn, The Inpatient utilizes a “Butterfly Effect” system once again. Every now and then choices that you make will display an animation of butterflies fluttering away to let you know that you just progressed down a fork in the narrative road, so to speak. If you replay the game and make different choices then different things play out.

From what I could tell these divergent narrative moments were far less pronounced in The Inpatient as opposed to Until Dawn, but I did pick up on a few differences here and there, especially with regard to the ending.

If you played it then you might recall that 2016’s PSVR-exclusive pseudo-sequel, Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, also took place in the same universe, but it used a much looser approach to the concept. Other than a few character names and some imagery here and there, Rush of Blood actually had very little to do with Until Dawn from a narrative perspective. By the time the credits roll in The Inpatient on the other hand (and make sure you stick around for the post-credits scene too, by the way) the story threads are very clearly connected.

Final Score: 7.5/10 – Good

The Inpatient has a great premise with excellent production values, but its hampered by poor controls and lackluster character development. As a prequel to Until Dawn, it does a great job of fleshing out the lore a bit more, but it’s a bit short to really stand on its own. That being said, the moments that are there and the scares that they produce are totally worth experiencing. Plus, more games should absolutely adopt the voice recognition dialog feature going forward.

You can get The Inpatient on PSVR for $39.99. You can read our Game Review Guidelines for more information on how we arrive at our review scores.

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The Inpatient for PlayStation VR Available to Pre-Order Ahead of Next Week’s Launch

Next week will see Supermassive Games release its next virtual reality (VR) title The Inpatient, having launched Until Dawn: Rush of Blood and Tumble VR for PlayStation VR back in 2016. And players can now pre-order the upcoming psychological horror experience with either monetary savings or pre-order bonuses to be had.

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The Inpatient will launch in North America on 23rd January, while in Europe it’s a day later on 24th. It’ll be available in both digital and physical copies depending on how you like to purchase your videogames. As mentioned, there is a price discrepancy depending on where you go.

So first off most players are likely to go to the PlayStation Store if they want a digital copy. Via the official site for US or EU customers you’ll be paying £34.99 GBP/$39.99 USD for the title, with a pre-order bonus featuring a set of The Inpatient avatars: Abe, Billy Bate, Blackwood and Bragg. It’s also the same price for the digital version at GAME but there’s no mention of the bonuses.

If you prefer a hard copy of The Inpatient then you’ll actually save yourself some cash. It’s listed on both GAME and Amazon  for £24.99. There’s no bonus but you’ll save yourself a tenner to buy another videogame unless you really want those avatars. These saving are only for UK customers. A quick look for VRFocus’ US readers finds that Amazon and Best Buy are both selling the title for its full price of $39.99.

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For those that aren’t aware, The Inpatient is set in the same universe as Until Dawn, in fact the VR experience is a prequel. It takes place in the Sanatorium featured in the original PlayStation 4 exclusive, with players waking up to a living nightmare with no recollection of who they are or how they got there. They need to find out that’s going on as their sanity is tested to the extreme.

To learn more check out VRFocus’ preview from 2017. The title also made it onto The Best PlayStation VR Games Coming in 2018 list. For any further updates about The Inpatient, keep reading VRFocus.

PlayStation VR: The Inpatient erhältlich [Update]

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[Update] Es ist so weit: The Inpatient ist für PlayStation VR (PSVR) erhältlich und lädt zur Reise im Horror-Sanatorium ein. Der VR-Schocker lässt sich für 40 Euro im PlayStation Store erwerben.

Originalmeldung vom 15. Januar 2018:

Bisschen Geduld muss man noch mitbringen: Der Sanatorium-Horror-Thriller The Inpatient sollte ursprünglich letztes Jahr erscheinen, der Entwickler hat den Titel aber zusammen mit Bravo Team auf dieses Jahr verschoben. Zumindest das Horrorspiel soll schon nächste Woche am 24. Januar 2018 erscheinen und dem virtuellen Insassen in der Psychiatrie die Haare zu Berge stehen lassen. Ein neuer Trailer für das PSVR-Spiel regt schon mal die Gänsehaut an.

The Inpatient: Horror und Grusel im Sanatorium

Als eines der ersten lang erwarteten Spiele in diesem Jahr für die PlayStation VR (PSVR) dürfte The Inpatient den Reigen qualitativ hochwertiger VR-Kost eröffnen, bevor einen Monat später die Maus Moss die Sony-Konsole erobert. Sony will bis Ende des Jahres 2018 den VR-Spielekatalog nahezu verdoppeln und 280 Titel im Programm führen.

Bereits im August 2017 konnten wir auf der gamescom in Köln Hand an das Spiel der Until-Dawn-Entwickler legen und waren von der Atmosphäre des Spiels angetan. Besonders die Inszenierung überzeugte und erinnerte eher an einen interaktiven VR-Film, der mit gelungenen Schockeffekten aufwarten kann.

Einzig die Steuerung mit den Move-Controllern kritisierten wir seinerzeit, was aber nicht an den Entwicklern liegt, sondern den Limitierungen der Sony-Steuerelemente. Insgesamt soll man bei The Inpatient auf drei Stunden Spielzeit kommen, die Veröffentlichung ist für den 24. Januar für PlayStation VR (PSVR) geplant. The Inpatient lässt sich bereits jetzt im Sony PlayStation Store vorbestellen und kostet knapp 40 Euro.

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