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Virtual Battlegrounds VR FPS Adds Cosmetic Unlocks And More

Virtual Battlegrounds is slowly starting to add more and more of the features that you’d expect out of a modern battle royale shooter, including unlockable cosmetic skins which were revealed today in the latest trailer that debuted during the UploadVR Showcase: Summer Edition 2020.

In the trailer, embedded above, you can see a collection of gameplay highlights with plenty of news tidbits sprinkled throughout. For starters, Season One will officially be kicking off this week on June 18th.

With the update comes a handful of additions, most prominent of which is the introduction of an unlockable cosmetics system. Unlocking new character skins and clothing is a crucial part of most battle royale games, such as Fortnite, Call of Duty Warzone, and PUBG. Other than Rec Room, which has a limited battle royale-style mode, the other battle royale offerings don’t offer anything comparable that I’m aware of. Although, from what we’ve seen, it looks like the unlockables are just color swaps and different designs for clothing.

In addition to the unlockable cosmetics system, Virtual Battlegrounds is also getting air drops now that will bring loot into the map mid-match for everyone to see and go after, creating flashpoints of combat. There is also a tournament format, but we don’t have many details on that yet.

Watch the entire trailer above, it’s only about a minute long, to see plenty of VR FPS action and for more on the game’s design and inspiration, check out our feature story and video on Virtual Battlegrounds and visit the official website.

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Snapshot VR Is A High-Speed Paintball-Style Shooter, Coming This August To PC VR

Snapshot VR is an upcoming paintball-style arena shooter with a focus on team tactics and high-speed action, coming this August to PC VR from Giant Scam Industries. It even features official NXL professional paintball maps!

Watch the announcement trailer, including gameplay footage, right here:

If you’re a fan of Rec Room paintball, like the look of Solaris: Offworld Combat, and wish there was something designed around being extremely fast-paced with next to zero room for error, then Snapshot VR could be for you. From the moment a match begins you need to scramble to key firing lanes to hold down positions and use call outs to communicate with your team and adapt.

According to the press release, matches usually don’t even last a full minute so hopefully loading wait times are extremely low or non-existent. You get shot once, you’re out. No respawns, no armor pick ups, no killstreaks — either kill the other team or hit their buzzer to win.

 

Snapshot VR features 5v5 matches that require “snapshot” accuracy. This is a paintball term that refers to the ability to quickly rotate, aim, and fire from behind cover. Leaning into this connection even more, Snapshot VR will feature actual official National Xball League (NXL) maps and allows players to create their own custom maps using 2D Paintball’s Field Creator that can be exported into Snapshot VR.

The developers at Giant Scam Industries are also focused on providing lots of stats and analytics, including heat maps for post-match analysis on specific arenas to formulate better strategies.

You’ll also be able to pick from three different locomotion methods, but we don’t know what those are exactly yet. Judging from the trailer, full smooth locomotion seems like a given. You’ll also be able to pick from lots of customization options, which is oddly lacking from most VR shooters.

Snapshot VR is slated to hit PC VR headsets on Steam Early Access and Viveport this August. Specifically, developers plan to support Rift, Rift S, Vive, Vive Pro, Cosmos, Cosmos Elite, Windows MR, and Index from the start.

Oculus Quest with Link Cable should work as well through Steam, but there’s no word on an official Quest version or PSVR version at this time.

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Every Upload VR Showcase: Summer Edition Reveal In One Spot

Whew! We’re done! The Upload VR Showcase: Summer Edition is over! Miss the show? No worries – here’s everything we announced this year!

Below is a link to every article for every game featured.  Or just watch the entire show again, because why not?

Main Show

Pre Show

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Check Out Early Development Footage Of Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife

Just in from this year’s Upload VR Showcase: Summer Edition – we have early development footage of Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife!

The first VR game in the World of Darkness universe — announced a little earlier then expected last week — is being developed by Fast Travel Games. The first full gameplay trailer is set to arrive in August, but Fast Travel has pulled together a very, very early look at the of the game’s environments in a new clip below exclusive to the Showcase. Check out the content, introduced by Fast Travel’s Erik Odeldahl.

Again, this is just a small peek, but you can already get a sense of the atmosphere Fast Travel is going for. As the teaser trailer (also embedded in the trailer above) reveals, at least part of Wraith will be set inside the confines of a creepy mansion, and it looks like that’s what we’re seeing here.

Fast Travel says Wraith is a full-on horror VR game, inspired by the likes of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Alien: Isolation. Other details are thin on the ground right now, but it seems safe to say this will be a terrifying VR adventure. Fast Travel previously worked on Apex Construct, The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets, and Budget Cuts 2, so it’s safe to say this is a change of pace for the Stockholm-based developer.

Stay with us on the Upload VR Showcase: Summer Edition. We’ve got plenty more to come including the latest look at Low-Fi and Vertigo Remastered. You won’t to miss this!

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Watch New Blaston Gameplay, 1v1 VR Shooter From Resolution Games

Blaston is the latest VR title from Resolution Games, and we have some exclusive new gameplay hot off the press, as revealed in our UploadVR Showcase: Summer Edition.

Resolution Games is a studio that has been around the VR block a few times now — you might know them from one of their other titles such as Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs, Acron: Attack of the Squirrels, relaxing fishing game Bait!, or their upcoming multiplayer game Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale.

However, this time Resolution Games is back with a very different style of game — Blaston is a 1v1 multiplayer shooter, where you’ll be given an array of weapons and have to dodge bullets from your opponent on the spot. As you might guess, the first person to lose all their health loses the round.

In some ways, the game looks a bit reminiscent of Ironlights, a recent 1v1 multiplayer melee combat game, or Wands, a wizard dueling game. However, Blaston swaps medieval weapons for various guns and doesn’t feature any of the same attack-defend back and forth you’ll see in Ironlights. From the gameplay trailer embedded above, it’s all quick moving, dodging and shooting action in Blaston. It’s doesn’t look like a game that you want to play in a small space, that’s for sure.

As mentioned above, Blaston isn’t even the only game we’re expecting from Resolution this year. Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale is a different type of multiplayer game from the same studio, also due out later in the year.

Blaston launches in the fall and will be available on almost any VR platform you could want it on — SteamVR, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, and PSVR.

Check out every trailer, article, announcement, interview, and more from the UploadVR Showcase right here.

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Trover Saves The Universe Comes To Quest This Week

Holy f**k! Check out this news from the Upload VR Summer Showcase: Summer Edition – Trover Saves The Universe lands on Oculus Quest this week!

Justin Roiland and Squanch Games’ bizarre VR adventure game launched on PSVR and PC VR platforms almost a year ago to the day, but now finds its way onto Facebook’s standalone headset. Trover Saves The Universe touches down on Oculus Quest on June 18th. Check out the trailer below – even if you’ve already played the game you probably won’t want to miss it.

If you couldn’t already tell, Trover Saves The Universe is an eccentric VR experience from the mind behind Ricky & Morty. Played from a third-person perspective, you take Trover on an unpredictable adventure to battle the evil Glorkon.

Trover isn’t Roiland’s first journey into VR, though. He also collaborated with Crows, Crows, Crows on the brilliantly weird Accounting+ and Job Simulator developer Owlchemy Labs made its own Rick & Morty VR game a few years back. We were very fond of the game when it originally launched last year, giving it a 7/10.

“The bottom line is that if you liked games such as Lucky’s Tale and Astro Bot and also appreciate Justin Roiland’s style of vulgar fourth-wall-breaking comedy, then this is a match made in third-person action-adventure heaven,” we said at the time.

There’s plenty more news spinning out of the Upload VR Showcase: Summer Edition today. Make sure to watch the show in full; there’s a little something for everyone. Will you be picking up Trover Saves The Universe on Quest? Let us know in the comments below!

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Vertigo Remastered Arrives In July, New Trailer Here

The much-anticipated Vertigo Remastered arrives on PC VR headsets next month, and we have a new trailer to prove it.

Zulubo Productions debuted its latest look at the game on the Upload VR Showcase: Summer Edition today. Announced last December, Vertigo Remastered is a top-to-bottom reworking of the original 2016 VR game featuring new visuals and, crucially, many of gameplay updates seen in the upcoming Vertigo 2.

In the game, players find themselves mysteriously teleported from an idyllic home in the mountains to a strange, otherwordly facility. Things get weird from the start, including visions of a strange monster and attacks from smiling drones. But you’ll find much more to worry about as you get deeper and deeper into the game, as this new footage shows.

Back in 2016, we called the original game a ‘decent stab at an indie Half-Life‘; Valve’s fingerprints could be found on almost every element of the game in the best way possible. In fact, solo developer Zach Tsiakalis-Brown went on to work with the Valve team for some time following the game’s release, specifically helping to develop the Moondust VR demo. There’s even an awesome little easter egg for that in the Vertigo 2 preview. But these revisions look like they might take Vertigo some way beyond that, especially when you consider just how promising the demo for Vertigo 2 was.

As the trailer so graciously states, the game will be free for owners of the original and will sell for $24.99 at launch. We’ll bring you much more coverage in the run-up to launch in a few weeks’ time.

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In Death: Unchained Brings Rogue-Lite VR Action To Oculus Quest This July

During the UploadVR Summer Showcase 2020 we revealed that In Death: Unchained is an Oculus Quest port of the excellent PC VR rogue-lite in development by Superbright that’s aiming to deliver amazing standalone wireless thrills when it releases this July.

Watch the announcement trailer and first-ever gameplay footage right here:

I reviewed the original PC VR version of the game and it regularly ends up on many “best of” lists, including our list of the very best VR roguelike games you can play. In Death features best-in-class bow and arrow combat with excellent physics. Peeking around corners, landing headshots, and dodging projectiles was already a blast and is sure to be even better without a wire tethering you.

Visually, the trailer certainly makes it seem like they nailed the visual style with few compromises, which was likely a difficult feat giving how polished the PC VR game looks. What makes In Death so fun and replayable is just how varied each playthrough can be. Instead of replaying the same levels or barely altered levels, they’re dramatically different each time with a variety of new features and enemies to face. You barely notice the procedural generation.

Since In Death: Unchained is releasing next month in July that means we won’t have to wait very long before diving into this one once again.

Check out every trailer, article, announcement, interview, and more from the UploadVR Showcase right here.

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Agence Is A New Experiment In VR AI And Interaction

Agence is a new immersive experience coming to VR, mobile and desktop platforms that uses AI to create an interactive and dynamic story about little characters that inhabit a floating planet.

The project is being co-produced by Transforms and the National Film Board of Canada, and is neither a movie nor a game — it’s somewhere in between. We just debuted some new gameplay from Agence in our UploadVR Showcase: Summer Edition, along with some new info from Transforms developer Pietro Gagliano. You can watch the full segment below.

Speaking about the experience, Gagliano said that it’s “a new form of immersive storytelling that uses artificial intelligence and user agency to drive a real-time narrative.”

It features little creatures living on a floating planet, with whom you’ll be able to interact. Each character has a mind of its own, developed with AI learning systems, so the story will be a dynamic experience shaped by your actions and the brains of each character.

“What’s super cool about it is that we’re developing brains for these characters using reinforcement, learning artificial intelligence, allowing them to think and act for themselves within our dynamic story world,” said Gagliano. “Even though it’s early days in our training efforts, we’re already seeing brains developing that lead to interesting behaviors and different kind of story patterns. We often joke that Agence is becoming an experience that literally has a mind of its own.”

The experience won’t be exclusive to VR headsets — it’s also coming to mobile and PC platforms as well. We don’t have an exact release date at the moment, except that the experience will be launching “soon.” Keep your eyes peeled for more to come.

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Get Your Latest Look At Cyberpunk Action Game Lonn Right Here

Upcoming VR action game, Lonn, caught our attention late last year, and we just saw a fresh look at the Upload VR Showcase: Summer Edition!

Developer SixSense Studios stopped by the show with two minutes of new footage from the anticipated game. It’s action-packed, with tons of cyberpunk ninja action, first-person gunplay and physics-based puzzles. Plus there are lots of grizzly new features like enemy dismemberment. Check it out below!

In Lonn, you play as the titular character, a former bounty hunter now taking the fight to a mega-corporation named Megalo. Megalo is creating cyborgs by transferring people’s consciousness. We’re guessing that doesn’t go too well considering you’ll be slicing your way through a full first-person campaign with sword in-hand.

Along with physics-driven melee combat you’ll also have access to special powers like telekinesis. Not only will that help with puzzles, letting you grasp out-of-reach objects, but you can also fire crates and other items at enemies when you’re low on ammo or when you just want to cause a little more destruction.

What really caught our eye about Lonn, though, was its physical interactions, which seem in stride with games like Boneworks and The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners. It’s the debut title from SixSense, so we’ll be keeping a keen eye on how it pans out.

Lonn is coming to PC VR headsets later this year. Looking forward to the game? Let us know in the comments below. And make sure to tune into the Showcase; we’ve got plenty more where that came from.

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