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Fox Working on Multiplayer Alien VR Videogame

FoxNext are developing a location-based Alien multiplayer experience.

shaun mcwayne2949d ago

Wow imagine a face hugger attack in VR, stuff of nightmares, glad I wore the brown trousers.

Relientk772949d ago

If face huggers jump at me in VR, I'll be scared and jump like everytime

-Foxtrot2949d ago

I think most of us would rather have Isolation 2 so hopefully we'll be getting that aswell soon. E3 Reveal?

Nitrowolf22949d ago

I would be down for thaf with a vr experience tied to it to. I think they just need to make the game shorter this time around or not have it feel like it drags on in the latter portions.

Still, i would love a new AVP game

-Foxtrot2949d ago

I think the length was fine but once she realised there was more then one of them on the ship they should have given you a way to kill them...BUT it wouldn't be easy and could take away a lot of resources. Kind of like the Big Daddy encounter at the start of Bioshock, you can kill them sure but it's going to f***** hurt.

I'm hoping in the sequel she can lay traps and the like and use the environment more.

morganfell2949d ago (Edited 2949d ago )

"I'm hoping in the sequel she can lay traps..."

But the article says they are focused on multiplayer. WTH? I would much rather have the Single Player. I played the VR demo of Alien Isolation with my DK2 and it was incredible though certain features were not fully fleshed out. Still it was amazing. There was word from Sega that a full version was going to be released en toto for VR but it has not as of to date materialized.

monkey6022949d ago

I loved isolation and really would like to see another but an alien in VR in the same style as left for dead could be great fun

AuraAbjure2949d ago

Who here beat Isolation on Nightmare mode?!

ABBAJESUS2948d ago

Hard mode was hard for me enough :D Took me over 20 hours.

_-EDMIX-_2948d ago

Absolutely agreed alien isolation is easily one of my favorite survival horror games I've played in a very very long time, the art Direction in the game is absolutely amazing you could tell that the designers had a lot of fun with the original aliens concept.

I'm actually hoping we get isolation 2 this year announced as well as Evil Within 2.

ABBAJESUS2947d ago

New alien game announcement would be epic (not that vr game)

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mgirl2949d ago

It's weird that the games have become the best part of the Alien franchise, considering the 16-bit ones (and most modern ones, too) were rubbish.

Summons752949d ago

Yeah. Isolation was pretty decent but it was way better than any of the movies after Aliens. It kills me a little inside when they announce a new Alien movie prequel or sequel.

Venoxn4g2949d ago

The NIntendo DS Alien game is awesome..

_-EDMIX-_2948d ago

I wouldn't go that far

I would say isolation might be one of the best video games ever taken from a movie series but there's also tons of other games that go in that category.

I still like all the other Alien films.

XiNatsuDragnel2949d ago

Oh smokes a VR exclusive on this would a game changer.

Artemidorus2949d ago

Makes total sense but I'd rather be a group of Marines getting surrounded, all hell breaking loose with difficulty being very hard to escape like a surivial mode, can remain single player with decent Ai as an option.

Always wished I experienced just like the second film helping each other escape while the choas happens.

mixelon2949d ago

Problem is you either have to depower the aliens, have super destroyable scenary.. or have a literally impossible game. Or all three. The acid really should make swiss cheese of the map in most of these games.

None of the games, AVP, CM etc treated the aliens as the lethal intelligent critters they are. Isolation is the only game that got that right, but if you have loads of the aliens coming for you that sounds supremely difficult. Humans don't really survive these encounters. The story would have to be complex and have the aliens spread doing different stuff than just coming for you.

Artemidorus2949d ago

The VR should make it more scary. The beeping on the scanner, the alien noises, Marines screaming, gunfire then have the same type of music as the film.
They can do s build up. Straight up surivial or both.

It's likely to be like the last aliens though.

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Every Game Announced at the August VR Games Showcase - VR Tech Tube

The VR Games Showcase has come and gone.

So much stuff has been announced and revealed. We get our first look at games like Grim, Hitman 3 VR, Vendetta Forever and much more.

Here is everything that was announced.

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Review: Arcade Paradise VR - Gamer Social Club

Laundry, cleaning and classic arcade games all in glorious virtual reality

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Babadook7416d ago

Should this be in the PC section?

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PC VR On Steam Is Actually Growing, Not Shrinking

It's sometimes claimed that PC VR usage on Steam is shrinking, but here's why that isn't actually true.

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bunt-custardly432d ago

Good, silence the naysayers who talk bollocks.

Tacoboto432d ago

The context in the article is kinda like the discussion of MAU metrics. Manipulation of figures to get it to say what you want it to.

I.e. "The proportion is shrinking, but there are more players so it's actually not shrinking!"

Crows90432d ago

That's not like mau metrics ....

If there's 20,000 players and only 10% use it and then there's a jump to 40,000 and 10% are using still using it then....there's been an increase because 10% of 40k is higher than 20k.

That's an actual number increase of people using it. That's growth.

Tacoboto432d ago

MAU is used to reference engagement or growth in a game. The conversation is muddied because people want to talk about sales instead of player count. How is this not like that?

Growth can mean and be two different things. Growth of quantity, or growth of proportion. People in finance and accounting will never look at 2% in one instant and look at 2% at a later instant and say "Hey look, growth!" That's a joke, to be frank. The 2% is more than the earlier 2% but that 98% remainder also grew.

Eonjay432d ago

Which is why Sony is putting PSVR 2 on it.

Abnor_Mal432d ago

I wish Sony would have given upgrades to many of their PSVR games for their VR2 system. Unfortunately for me their pcvr movement is not doing me any favors, hopefully there’s some kind of trickle down effect.

Eonjay432d ago

Sony would only be able to Patch its own games. Devs would have to go back and create their own patches. To be frank, whats gonna stop this from happening is money. Are they willing to pay to have a developer create the patch, QA to test...

Abnor_Mal432d ago

@Eonjay totally agree with what you said about third party devs and the cost, Q&A etc, but Sony could have updated Astrobot, The Persistance, Blood and Truth, and Farpoint. Have a few in-house devs work on DriveClub vr, and pay for an update for Rush of Blood and maybe a Shadow of the Colossus VR. I would love to play Borderlands VR on PSVR2.

shinoff2183431d ago

Sure Sony mightve been able to help but reality is most of those titles were from 3rd parties.

ApocalypseShadow432d ago (Edited 432d ago )

What he's saying is that Sony should have lead by example. Instead, they haven't done shit bringing them forward and expected 3rd parties to do it themselves in bringing their own games. If Sony's not going to do it, why should they?

It's like when they lead by example in the creation of their games. Or lead by example when they make their hardware.

Hate to say it, but for PS VR 2, they are lagging big time. GT is nice. But if you're tired of sims, then there's just Horizon. I'd rather have Blood and Truth remastered at that level or a sequel than what they currently released. No chance of that though as they killed London Studios. Another bullshit move they made. About as bad as killing Evolution Studios to keep GT as their only racing game. I like Sony's platform. But I'm not buying their headset if they're not going to put in the effort like they do with flat games.

shinoff2183431d ago

Exactly. I almost bought vr2 but it's the games missing. Sure that horizon might be dope but I'd prefer the full horizon, or last of us, Spiderman, something. Pay some 3rd party devs. I was hoping to get that fallout 4 but that's not happening now lol

shinoff2183431d ago

Vr is dope. Idk know why people wanna hate. It's definitely a dope next step. Even if it's a sidestep. I really wish more developers would throw down. Imagine a last of us with vr, or a final fantasy game, all kinds of stuff. It would be incredible.

bunt-custardly431d ago

Praydog's FREE UEVR mod is working wonders for the PC VR community.