Starbreeze AB to Launch VR Arcade StarCade Later This Year

VR's a-coming quite soon, and it will be seemingly hitting the arcades quicker than you realize. Starbreeze AB, an independent creator, publisher and distributor of high quality entertainment products, has announced its plans to launch a VR arcade venue in Los Angeles, named Project StarCade.

Now this sounds awesome. Either way, Starbreeze will be making premium VR experiences accessible to the public, so many will have a crack to see what the hubbub is about. According to Starbreeze CTO Emmanuel Marquez:

"We continue to iterate the fact that VR really needs to be experienced in person to fully be able to appreciate the phenomenon, and why not have your first experience in a real premium setting in our StarVR headset? We've managed to secure a prime location where people are welcome to step into our StarCade and enjoy our OVERKILL's The Walking Dead VR experience.

We're developing our own StarCade catalogue of experiences, but we're open to any content. We will invite developers to join us and give them the opportunity to put their content in our StarCade. We as an industry continuously need to educate ourselves to make VR truly successful, and this is just the first step in our planning to do so."

Daniel Murray, who is the President of Skybound Interactive, also chimed in about StarCade:

"When we heard about the StarCade initiative we were immediately excited. It allows us to further explore The Walking Dead universe in a completely new way. Here at Skybound we pride ourselves in having our finger on the pulse of what fans want, and together with Starbreeze and their Project StarCade, we're thrilled to create a new way for fans to try out the OVERKILL's The Walking Dead VR experience."

Expect Project StarCade initiative to launch during the spring or summer of 2016 somewhere in Los Angeles. And devs who are wanting to get in on this action? Well, there will be more information regarding the available tools, location, and premiere dates later down the road.