Traffic Jams gets PS VR street date, Unplugged announced for Oculus Quest and PC VR with first major rock hit reveal, and more details shared about After the Fall
Sydney, June 13, 2021 – Vertigo Games, the VR specialist publishing and development arm of the global Koch Media Group, shared updates and brand-new footage today for their 2021 line-up of VR games, including After the Fall, Unplugged and Traffic Jams PS VR during the Upload E3 VR Showcase. Get a closer look at the development of After the Fall as Vertigo Games talks about their biggest VR action FPS yet, find out when the tongue-in-cheek VR game Traffic Jams will be released on PlayStation VR and learn more about the new gameplay and music featured in the upcoming VR music game Unplugged.
Go behind the scenes of After the Fall development
Scheduled to launch on Oculus Quest, PlayStation VR and PC VR platforms, After the Fall is a co-op VR action FPS that has 4 players team up in cross-platform multiplayer as they take on a hostile, frozen dystopian world in a raging fight for survival.
In today’s video, some of the lead developers at Vertigo Studios (Arizona Sunshine, 2016) sat down to talk about After the Fall in a brand-new video, offering a closer look at the intense cross-platform multiplayer co-op action and dynamic gameplay.
Watch the After the Fall – Closer Look: Replayability & Cross-play video here.
Unplugged is coming to Oculus Quest and PC VR with major rock hits
VR music game Unplugged is officially making its way to Oculus Quest as well as hand-tracking enabled PC VR platforms later this year. Published by Vertigo Games and developed by Anotherway, Unplugged lets you play air guitar and write rock history, fully powered by hand-tracking technology. No musical expertise – just you rocking out hard to some of the biggest and loudest songs by world-famous rock bands.
In today’s video, the studio revealed the first of the game’s major playable rock tracks – “The Kids Aren’t Alright” by The Offspring – that will send players on an incredible rock journey celebrating over 5 decades of classic rock, punk and metal. We’ve made huge progress on the gameplay over the last months,” Ricardo Acosta, co-founder of Anotherway, says in the video. “Now we have several different modes, power ups, minigames, crowd interaction and much more.”
Watch the Unplugged – For the love of Rock Update video here.
Traffic Jams is set to release on PlayStation VR on August 26
Tongue-in-cheek VR game Traffic Jams is set to release on PlayStation VR on August 26, 2021. The wacky traffic controlling simulation recently saw its release on Oculus Quest and major PC VR headsets.
Today Vertigo Games released a new PS VR trailer showcasing the game’s traffic control play while facing outrageous events and flagrant road rage on PlayStation VR. Players guide rude pedestrians and impatient drivers while facing an occasional meteorite before road rage strikes. This wacky VR game is full of monsters, (un)natural disasters, four non-VR players in asymmetrical multiplayer and many more surprising events that will keep aspiring traffic controllers on their toes.
Watch the Traffic Jams – PS VR Release Date Trailer here
For more information and to stay up to date on all of our upcoming VR games, please find us at vertigo-games.com, or follow Vertigo Games on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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About After the Fall
From the creators of Arizona Sunshine comes an epic VR action FPS set in the frozen remains of an alternate 1980s LA with intense 4-player co-op gameplay at its core. After the Fall pits players and their friends across platforms against a hostile, evolving post-apocalyptic VR world in a raging fight for survival. afterthefall-vr.com
About Traffic Jams
In this wacky VR game, control traffic your way in the face of outrageous events and flagrant road rage. Easy? Think again! Traffic Jams throws in monsters, (un)natural disasters, and up to 4 non-VR friends in party mode! trafficjams-vr.com
About Unplugged
VR music game Unplugged allows you to play air guitar and write rock history, fully powered by hand-tracking technology. No controllers or peripherals required – just you rocking out hard to some of the biggest and loudest songs by world-famous rock bands including The Offspring and many more. unplugged-vr.com
About Vertigo Games
Vertigo Games is a multi-platform VR publisher and developer with offices in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Los Angeles, California. With teams in the areas of development, publishing and LBE (location-based entertainment) distribution, the company offers a growing portfolio of quality VR games that provide novel, powerful and full-featured gaming experiences both inside of the home, and outside of the home through its leading LBE content provider and management platform SpringboardVR. Current games include Vertigo Studios’ evergreen brand Arizona Sunshine®, critically acclaimed VR titles such as A Fisherman’s Tale, and LBE-exclusive VR experiences like Ghost Patrol VR®. Vertigo Games has five releases in the 2021 publishing pipeline, including Vertigo Studios’ next VR action FPS game After the Fall®, the VR music game Unplugged and the tongue-in-cheek VR sim Traffic Jams. Vertigo Games is a Koch Media Group company. vertigo-games.com
About Koch Media
The Koch Media Group is a global developer, publisher and distributor of video games, VR games, gaming hardware and merchandise.
The group’s publishing activities, marketing and distribution extend throughout Europe, America, Australia and Asia. Koch Media has more than 25 years of experience in the digital media business and has risen to become a leading global publishing partner. The Koch Media Group runs a multi-label strategy with fully owned publishing units such as Deep Silver, Milestone, Vertigo Games and Ravenscourt, publishing games for consoles, PC and VR platforms across all physical and digital channels.
Additionally, as global publishing partner Koch Media has formed long-term multi-national publishing collaborations with numerous game publishers including Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, Capcom, CI Games, Giants Software, Kalypso, Koei Tecmo, Konami, Paradox, Sega, SNK, Square Enix, Techland, Tripwire, Warner Bros, and many others.
With its parent company in Höfen, Austria, and the Publishing HQ in Munich, Germany, Koch Media owns local publishing companies in Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Australia, the United States as well as Japan and Hong Kong.
The Koch Media Group owns nine game development studios: Deep Silver Volition (Champaign, IL / USA), Deep Silver Dambuster Studios (Nottingham / UK), Deep Silver Fishlabs (Hamburg / Germany), Warhorse Studios (Prague / Czech Republic), Milestone (Milan / Italy), Voxler (Paris / France) , Flying Wild Hog (Warsaw, Kraków, Rzeszów / Poland), Free Radical Design (Nottingham / UK) and Vertigo Games (Rotterdam /The Netherlands). Additionally, the Koch Media Group collaborates with numerous independent development studios around the world.
Part of the Koch Media Group is also Koch Films, a leading European independent film distributor with business primarily in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy as a cinema, TV, online and Home Entertainment distributor. The Koch Media Group also owns Gaya Entertainment, a leading video game merchandise company in Munich, Germany, and the Quality Assurance Facility in Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Koch Media is an Embracer Group company.
