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SOUL COVENANT Review – Ineffectual Melee Sandwiched in a Very Skippable Story

SOUL COVENANT is an action RPG from the core members who brought you the SOUL SACRIFICE series. While the game does a few things to translate the franchises’s melee combat and giant monsters into a VR-native experience, adherence to the series’ repetitive wave-based missions and clunky narrative style takes it one step too many from feeling like […]

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SOUL COVENANT Review – Ineffectual Melee Sandwiched in a Very Skippable Story

SOUL COVENANT is an action RPG from the core members who brought you the SOUL SACRIFICE series. While the game does a few things to translate the franchises’s melee combat and giant monsters into a VR-native experience, adherence to the series’ repetitive wave-based missions and clunky narrative style takes it one step too many from feeling like […]

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Multiplayer JRPG ‘Soul Covenant’ Coming to All Major VR Headsets Next Month

Thirdverse, the Japan-based VR studio behind Swords of Gargantua, Altair Breaker, and X8, announced that its VR multiplayer JRPG SOUL COVENANT is coming to all major headsets next month. Developed by the core team behind SOUL SACRIFICE (2013), players are thrust into a post-apocalyptic Tokyo in the franchise’s first VR expansion. Soul Covenant is said to feature a “deeply […]

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[Industry Direct] Building a Thriving VR Multiplayer Hero Shooter Game & Community – The Making of ‘X8’

Industry Direct by By Masaru “Nogi” Ohnogi, Executive Producer of X8 at Thirdverse Industry Direct is our program for sponsors who want to speak directly to the Road to VR newsletter audience. Industry Direct posts are written by sponsors with no involvement from the Road to VR editorial team. Links to these posts appear only in […]

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‘Swords of Gargantua’ Studio Thirdverse Secures $15M, Aims to Bring Latest Titles to PSVR 2
Japanese VR studio Thirdverse today revealed it’s raised $15 million, something the Swords of Gargantua developer says will be used to expand global recruitment and develop new Web3 and VR titles. In its latest round, MZ Web3 Fund has signed on as the lead investor, bringing the company’s overall outside funding to $33 million. As […]

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Thirdverse raises $20M and names Gumi founder Hironao Kunimitsu as CEO

Thirdverse raised $20 million and named Gumi founder Hironao Kunimitsu as CEO as he focuses on virtual reality and the metaverse. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Dean Takahashi

‘Swords of Gargantua’ is Getting Its Second Tesseract Abyss Update in August
Thirdverse today announced that its co-op sword fighting adventure, Swords of Gargantua (2019), is getting its second Tesseract Abyss expansion on August 5th. This comes nearly two years after the studio released its Tesseract Abyss Adventure Mode expansion, which first brought character and weapon upgrades to the single player and three-player co-op game alongside a bunch of new […]

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Co-op Melee Adventure ‘Swords of Gargantua’ for PSVR Gets December Release Date
Swords of Gargantua (2019), the VR sword-fighting action game from Thirdverse previously launched on SteamVR headsets and Oculus Quest, is finally making its way to PSVR. After multiple delays, the rogue-lite adventure is officially slated to release on PSVR December 8th, 2020. At launch, Swords of Gargantua for PSVR will be available globally in both English and Japanese, priced at $30. […]

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Thirdverse raises $8.5 million to expand its VR business

VR developer Thirdverse has completed a Series A funding round worth $8.5 million.Thirdverse worked on the sword-fighting VR game Swords of Gargantua. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Mike Minotti

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Frostpoint is a VR multiplayer shooter and InXile’s last non-Microsoft project

InXile Entertainment is announcing Frostpoint VR: Proving Grounds, a multiplayer team shooter hitting Oculus Rift, HTC Vive VR, and Valve Index in 2020. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Jason Wilson