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Roundup: 8 New PlayStation VR Trailers Revealed at PlayStation Experience

Sony continue to leave no doubts as to their commitment to the virtual reality space they’re about to enter in 2016, with another slew of titles developed for their PlayStation VR platform. Here they are the latest trailers for them, all lined up for you.

The PlayStation experience has officially kicked off, with a launch keynote featuring the PlayStation VR platform prominently. Alongside more traditional gaming titles, there were multiple developed-for-VR games revealed that demonstrate Sony is either very carefully curating a library of PSVR titles that emphasise their reputation for seeking out original IP, or they’re wildy snapping up anything they can to bolster the PSVR launch list.

It feels very much like the former to us, judging by the following trailers, newly released at PlayStation Experience today. Here they are all neatly rounded up for you.


The Modern Zombie Taxi Co. – Vitei Backroom

A golf title where you take the form of the titular 100ft Robots to lay waste to entire buildings in this Gundam-styled PlayStation VR title from developers No Goblin. Seems this one is laced with a keen sense of humour and more than a dose of friendly jabs at the genre. It looks fun, but we’re keen to find out the control scheme used here.

Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs

Job Simulator, the virtual reality title by Owlchemy Labs, is coming to PlayStation VR. Announced at PlayStation Experience today, the title is now set to come to all three major headsets.
Initially debuting at the reveal of the HTC Vive earlier this year, the title capitalizes on the motion tracked hand controllers of each of the aforementioned VR headsets by encouraging interaction with numerous in-game items. Rather than wielding futuristic weaponry or fantastical magic, Job Simulator gives people a chance to interact with everyday items in everyday places—all of which is interpreted in a cartoony style through the lenses of robots who attempt to recreate what it was like for humans to perform jobs before they were replaced. So far the developer has shown three stages—kitchen, office, and convenience store.
Golem is currently in development for PSVR by the Seattle-based studio, and looks to be a ‘virtual reality within a virtual reality’, as the protagonist seemingly controls a golem, or animated anthropomorphic creature, through a moonlit world.

Having recently announced a sequel to cult-classic Psychonauts (2005), Double Fine has just announced that the studio is also working on a standalone virtual reality experience titled Psychonauts In the Rhombus of Ruin. The game tells the story of what happens immediately after the end of Psychonauts and will bridge the gap to the forthcoming sequel. Not much else is known thus far however, and there are no hints from the all too brief 15 second teaser (above).

Eagle Flight – Ubisoft

Eagle Flight started as a Ubisoft tech demo, among a number of other VR concept experiences that the studio showed off earlier this year. Previously the tech demo was built thematically as part of the Assassin’s Creed universe, but from the teaser trailer it looks like the game will inhabit a world of its own.

In the tech demo, the game has players inhabiting the bodies of eagles, flying through about a massive city. The player’s head is used to control the direction of the bird while a controller is used for speeding up and slowing down. The early version we saw featured surprisingly compelling capture the flag gameplay where players would snatch the flag and try to race to capture it before being intercepted by another player. Players can fly down into the streets of the city, under bridges, and through gaps in an effort to lose their opponents in some rather exhilarating chases.


The PlayStation Experience has just got under way in San Francisco, running all weekend. We’ll keep you up to date on any VR news that comes our way.

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