Climb onto the rooftops and scream the news for all to hear: There’s a Star Wars VR game coming to the HTC Vive. It’s called Trials on Tatooine and it looks cool as fuck.
This glorious slice of wish fulfillment comes from ILMxLab, a division of Lucasfilm who devote themselves to creating all new, innovative interactive experiences. At the moment, it looks like a pretty simple game in which we have to deflect blaster fire with our lightsabers.
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But come on guys, we get to deflect blaster fire with our lightsabers in virtual reality. Remember when motion control took off and all anyone really wanted was a Star Wars game so that we become awesome Jedi? Well replace motion control with Virtual Reality and things haven’t really changed.
Check out the trailer below. Star Wars is a guaranteed money spinner, so this is something of a win-win for the Vive.
There’s no release date for Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine just yet, but there’s a chance it could launch alongside the HTC Vive on April 5 if we all wish really hard.
Ewan Moore is a journalist at UNILAD Gaming who still quite hasn’t gotten out of his mid 00’s emo phase. After graduating from the University of Portsmouth in 2015 with a BA in Journalism & Media Studies (thanks for asking), he went on to do some freelance words for various places, including Kotaku, Den of Geek, and TheSixthAxis, before landing a full time gig at UNILAD in 2016.