Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash!

Available now worldwide, Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash! sees the return of space reporter/dance fighter Ulala. In an interesting twist, players take on the role of a junior reporter, dancing alongside Ulala. You can dance through Story Mode, partake in Arcade mode or try to complete 100 dances in a row through Trial Dance. Even if it’s essentially a fitness game, Ulala’s return has been long overdue.

Yakuza: Like A Dragon

Yakuza: Like A Dragon is officially the seventh mainline game in the series. However, along with shifting to a new protagonist in Ichiban Kasuga, it adopts turn-based RPG gameplay. Don’t let that dissuade you – you can still expect the same over-the-top Yakuza action with Summons, crafting, Jobs, and much more. That’s not even counting the new minigames like Dragon Kart, a Mario Kart-like racing mode, or staying awake at the movies. Yakuza: Like A Dragon releases later this year in the West for PS4.

We’ve been hearing about Marvel’s Iron Man VR for a while, and how developer Camouflaj has tried to translate the superhero to virtual reality. Now we have a release date for the project, as well as a look at the game’s story and the various pre-order bonuses you can get.

The game will release early next year, and it will have both a physical and digital standard edition. The digital deluxe edition will have four armors as well as the digital soundtrack and an exclusive PS4 theme. If you pre-order you’ll also get access to four additional armors and another dynamic theme. You can check them out below.

Marvel’s Iron Man VR will release for PlayStation VR on February 28 2020. Along with this this we also got a quick trailer that highlights the story of the game where Tony Stark must face the ghosts of his past when weaponry he developed falls into the hand of a deadly enemy. 

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Marvel is making more and more of an impact on gaming with the likes of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Spider-Man, and the upcoming Marvel’s Avengers. Not to get lost in the shuffle, though, is Marvel’s Iron Man VR, a game that seems like such a no-brainer on paper, you wonder how that wasn’t the first VR game on PS VR. Now, we got some new details from the developers about how they translated the beloved superhero to virtual reality.

In the new developer’s diary, the dev team talk about how they knew they had to nail one thing with this game: the flying. They tackled it by trying to emulate the best possible way to feel like you’re in the Iron Man suit, including a unique control scheme that they’ve detailed before. Check it out below for the breakdown and some in-game footage.

Marvel’s Iron Man VR is slated to release sometime this year exclusively for PlayStation VR. To keep up to date on all news on the high profile VR title, look through here.

One of the bigger surprise announcements recently was the unveiling of Marvel’s Iron Man VR for the PlayStation VR. Ryan Payton’s studio, Camoflaj, convinced Marvel Games to give them a shoot at the franchise, and the developers hope to capture the feeling of being Iron Man in VR.

Through an interview with GamesBeat, Payton also revealed that the game doesn’t function exactly like you’d expect. It doesn’t use the triggers to shoot, as has become something of a standard for first person titles (or third person, for that matter), but to propel flight, which he says will surprise people in how good it feels.

“From day one, when we first created our prototype of Iron Man VR, we mapped the controls as best we could to the repulsors,” he said. “The most natural thing to us was that the triggers would operate the repulsor jets. Even in the early gray box form, building it in Unity, we were able to fly around just like Iron Man would, and it was super fun. Within the first week we had a prototype that really spoke to the strengths of what Iron Man is.”

Payton also clarified that the game will not be based directly on any of the popular Marvel Cinematic Universe films or any of the comics, and will contain its own original story.

“Iron Man VR is a completely original story, built from the ground up,” he said. “We obviously take some inspiration from the comics of the films, but it’s an original story. That’s one of the things we first started off with, working with Bill Roseman, the creative director of Marvel Games. How can we create an authentic Iron Man story that leverages the strengths of VR? The immersiveness and the first-person nature.”

Iron Man was the first character to launch the current Marvel Cinematic Universe, which has seen massive success, with Robert Downey Jr’s iconic portrayal of Tony Stark being an anchor of the fictional universe. It will be interesting to see if some of that magic can rub off here. Iron Man VR is slated for release in 2019 exclusively for PlayStation VR.

Following up on the excellent Spider-Man for PS4, Sony and Marvel will launch Iron Man for the PlayStation VR. That was, in fact, the first announcement of today’s State of Play stream, taking everyone by surprise.

Iron Man as a character is extremely well suited for PlayStation VR—you’re inside your suit, with all these HUD overlays, and performing aerial acrobatic manoeuvres, all of which should translate well to a VR game. Sadly, Robert Downey Jr. will not be lending his likeness or voice to this game, which, for a whole generation that has grown up associating him with Iron Man, will doubtless be jarring.

“We’ve set our sights on not only giving the player thrilling moment-to-moment action,” Camouflaj director, Ryan Peyton, wrote in a Playstation Blog post, “but also a deeply personal, and appropriately funny, narrative that puts players in Tony Stark’s armored shoes.”

The game is being developed by Camouflaj with Sony Worldwide Studios, which means you can give up any hopes of it hitting any other VR platform any time soon—it’s presumably going to stay exclusive to PlayStation VR. Still, it’s true availability of content like this which has made the PlayStation VR as successful as it is now, so the strategy is hard to argue with.

Check out the announcement trailer below.