By Darren Allan
We’ve seen a huge growth in the popularity of eSports in recent times – to the point where big games have been covered on Sky TV – but will competitive matches be something that can help stoke the popularity of VR gaming, which remains a rather niche pursuit? Intel certainly believes so, with the company announcing a big push behind VR eSports to this end.
Over at E3 2017, Intel announced that it will collaborate with eSports giant ESL and Oculus to form the VR Challenger League.
This will kick off next month, featuring professional VR gamers slugging it out in a pair of virtual reality games: The Unspoken (by Insomniac Games – pictured above) and Echo Arena (from Ready At Dawn Studios).
The former is a one-on-one action game featuring dueling mages flinging spells at each other and summoning beasts, and the latter is an as yet unreleased team-based five-versus-five futuristic zero-gravity clash in which players have to score goals with a Tron-like disc.
Furthermore, Intel is actively sponsoring Echo Arena, so the game will be a free download for Oculus Rift when it’s launched on July 20 (at least for the first three months).
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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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