Before seeing the Child's Play reboot movie in theaters, get ready to step into the world of the film and be terrorized by Chucky himself, in a new virtual reality experience. Child's Play VR launches on June 12 and traps users in Zedmart--a store featured heavily in the film--after dark, as a demented Chucky doll roams the aisles looking for his next victim.
ExxonMobil, in partnership with Louisiana Economic Development, is launching an initiative to bolster the Baton Rouge area tech sector by investing in virtual reality training for the company’s recently announced polyolefins plant expansion project. The virtual reality initiative, along with ExxonMobil’s proposed small business resource center in north Baton Rouge, are two community investments tied to the company’s major plant expansion project, worth more than $500 million, announced in March.
The world of The Bard's Tale comes to life in this highly immersive dungeon-crawling RPG from inXile, designed from the ground up for virtual reality. We’re thrilled to finally bring The Mage’s Tale to the PlayStation VR community. The Mage’s Tale is a 10+ hour dungeon crawler RPG set in the world of The Bard’s Tale series and designed from the ground up for virtual reality. Exploration, combats, puzzles to solve, and secrets await every player who dons the PS VR headset.
Road Redemption Brings Motorcycle Mayhem to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation®4
RPG dungeon crawler The Mage’s Tale, a former Oculus exclusive, is set to launch on Steam for the HTC Vive on March 23rd. Developer inXile Entertainment has also confirmed that the title is in development for PSVR.
Though well-known for its diehard sports fans, excellent cuisine, and epic tailgates, Louisiana’s capital Baton Rouge has leveraged its film production industry, research university, existing tech incubators, and low cost of living to become an emerging southeastern hub for the video gaming industry.
Road Redemption, a PC (and eventual console game) by Pixel Dash Studios, is a love letter to the original Road Rash series to the nth degree. And it also happens to be the better than the thing it is emulating thanks to some well executed roguelite elements, and much faster gameplay.
A few months ago, the guys from Binary Solo packed up their van for another episode of Indie Van Game Jam and drove to meet us in our Baton Rouge studio. Indie Van Game Jam is a web series where a group of indie game developers build an entire video game in the style of their hosts studio from scratch in the time it takes to drive to the studio. This episode highlighted Pixel Dash’s developer-for-hire culture, and it gives a good sneak peak into what life is like in our office.
Indie Prize judging takes place July 23rd at the 2014 Casual Connect Conference in San Francisco. Contact us if you are interested in setting up a meeting with our development team.
Pixel Dash Studios was invited to pitch at the 2013 High-Stakes Sense Pitch night in conjunction with Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week, and won the crowd vote.
Pixel Dash Studios’ upcoming mobile game was name a 2013 Global Game Star Finalist at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Silicon Valley. Finalists are invited to showcase their games in Silicon Valley at the Expo event connected to GMIC, the world’s largest mobile conference.
