Why PlayStation London Studio is leaving VR to create a fantasy online combat game
Originally Posted by GamesIndustry.biz
[...] Today, London Studio has announced its next game: a currently untitled online co-op combat game set in a fantasy London. There's no plastic microphone or VR headset in sight. It's certainly unique for the company, but it's hardly the leap into the unknown that it is famous for.
"We are proud of the history and innovation that we've done over the years, supporting all sorts of PlayStation technology, whether that's VR, or AR, or microphones, or whatever," says co-studio head Stuart Whyte. [...]
The game in question is this title that's been teased today, which Saunders says is being built specifically for PlayStation 5.
"It is our most ambitious game to-date," Saunders says. "We're going to take all of that innovation DNA and apply that into this online co-op combat game.
"[In our concept art] you're seeing a take on a modern fantasy London. Our overarching theme is about bringing fantastical and magical elements and intersecting that with familiar worlds, and you don't get much more familiar to us than London." [...]
"Our Soho Engine, our in-house game engine, is at the heart of what we're doing here," he says. "This is an engine that was built from the ground-up for this generation of hardware and the needs of the game that we're making. It's designed to take full advantage of the PS5. [...]
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