Korea-based studio Pixelity introduced it’s at the moment growing an XR sport based mostly on the hit ’90s anime Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995).
Pixelity says in a blogpost it’s signed an official licensing settlement with Studio Khara in Japan to make the XR sport. Deliberate to launch in three components, and based mostly on the story of all 26 episodes of the anime, Pixelity says the primary installment is already in manufacturing and concentrating on launch in 2026.
If you happen to’re an unwashed Evangelion fan (like us), you already know the rating. In brief, the anime sparked a large resurgence of anime in Japan in the course of the Nineties, happening to turn out to be a cultural phenomenon that influenced quite a few successor anime.
Set in 2015—twenty years forward of its precise 1995 air date—the story follows Shinji Ikari, who’s chosen as a pilot for the humanoid fight weapon Evangelion, humanity’s final line of protection towards the Angels mysterious beings attacking the futuristic metropolis of Tokyo-3.
The studio hasn’t talked about particular platforms but, though the sport is claimed to permit gamers to “discover varied places with an immersive XR expertise, following the identical timeline and occasions as Neon Genesis Evangelion, whereas finishing missions and having fun with dynamic battles.”
“The sport will characteristic collaboration play parts the place gamers work together with varied characters from Evangelion, which is predicted to be a pretty level for current followers. Pixelity goals to offer a dynamic expertise typical of action-adventure genres,” the studio says.
Based in 2017, Pixelity has created quite a lot of VR video games, together with Puttzzle (2023), Crazyworld VR (2022), and Rise of the Fallen (2018). The studio can also be at the moment engaged on two different VR video games, The Patcher and Teahouse of Souls.
Whereas this isn’t the primary time Evangelion has been tailored to VR headsets, will probably be the primary official at-home sport for the sequence. In 2017, Bandai Namco-backed VR studio ‘Venture i Can‘ launched the four-player Evangelion VR: The Throne of Souls at VR ZONE in Shinjuku, Japan, which was accessible there for a restricted time.
