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‘Angry Birds Movie 2 VR’ Studio Raises $2M to Continue Development on AR/VR Games

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XR Games , the studio behind couch co-op VR game The Angry Birds Movie 2 VR: Under Pressure (2019), has secured $2 million (£1.5 Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Leeds, England, Angry Birds Movie 2 VR was its second VR game, coming after their first production, the Cardboard game All-Star Fruit Racing (2018).

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Every PSVR 2 Game Revealed At State Of Play

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Sony promised a sneak peek of games for its upcoming headset and it didn’t disappoint. In case you’re catching up, here’s every PSVR 2 game announced and shown during the event. Sony kicked off the show with a bang. We can’t wait to revist the entire game inside VR once PSVR 2 is out.

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Xbox Game Studios Has (inadvertently?) Acquired Heaps of VR Development Talent

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A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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New Head of Sony Worldwide Studios Confirmed, Shuhei Yoshida Heads New Independent Developer Initiative

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At the end of September, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) announced that Worldwide Studios Chairman Shawn Layden would be leaving. Guerrilla Games’ Hermen Hulst has been appointed Head of Worldwide Studios (WWS) effective immediately. At the time a successor wasn’t revealed but that has now happened today.

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Blood & Truth Dev Sony London Studio now has its own Dedicated Website

Peter Graham

This was the creation of London Studio, part of Sony Worldwide Studios. Today, Sony London Studio has launched a dedicated website for fans to check out what the team is up to. . One of the biggest PlayStation VR videogame releases in 2019 occurred at the end of May, with the arrival of Blood & Truth.

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‘Shadow of the Colossus’ Creator Fumito Ueda is ‘Interested In Creating Something For VR’

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Even after the belated release of The Last Guardian , Fumito Ueda remains an interesting figure in the Japanese gaming industry, and someone we’d love to see work in VR. Ueda’s games have a distinct feeling to them. A game purely consisting of boss fights, you climb massive beasts and attempt to take them down.

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Kratos in Amazon's 'God of War' series should be Christopher Judge's job to lose

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Since the first game launched all the way back in 2005, God of War has been a staple of PlayStation's lineup. Across seven releases, the teams at Sony laid out the tragic story of a Spartan warrior who becomes the Greek God of War, and a god-slayer himself, after his wife and child fall victim to the machination of Olympian deities.

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