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stepee Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Also coming to Quest and SteamVR! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stickey Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 I'm surprised Metro VR got a thread and Assassin Creed VR didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Commissar SFLUFAN Posted Thursday at 12:18 AM Author Share Posted Thursday at 12:18 AM Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky has a new VR game, as well as an 8-year prison sentence inside Russia WWW.POLYGON.COM Quote Russian-born journalist and author Dmitry Glukhovsky has been in the public eye since the early 2000s. That’s when his Metro stories first kicked off online, originally as a viral transmedia project and later as a series of successful novels. Those books would eventually become the inspiration for the Ukrainian studio 4A Games’ beloved, award-winning trilogy: Metro 2033, Metro: Last Light, and Metro Exodus. Now he’s on the cusp of a new entry in the series, a VR title from Vertigo Games (Arizona Sunshine) called Metro Awakening. Polygon sat down with Glukhovsky in early September to learn more. The mainline Metro series follows protagonist Artyom through the byzantine passageways below a post-apocalyptic Moscow and, ultimately, among the strange factions making their way forward in that grim, dark future. According to Glukhovsky, those novels and games have always been driven by his own personal ideologies — by his own politics. That’s why, when Russian president Vladimir Putin launched the illegal invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Glukhovsky knew he couldn’t back down. “The Metro books and the video games, they all have this anti-war, pacifist, anti-dictatorship political message,” Glukhovsky told Polygon in our recent interview. “Some people confuse them [with] horror stories, [but] they have the horror stories to entertain the gamers. From Metro 2033 to Metro: Last Light and Exodus, this is all about xenophobia. This is about manipulation from the state, from the government. This is about how the governments push us into global conflicts. “Now if, in reality, when this thing really happens, and a global war begins possibly from my own country attacking the neighboring country — which is very dear to me and from where a lot of friends and former loves and business partners stamp [their passports] — if I shut the fuck up right now, this is to say that all of my previous books and games were fake.” After a few social media posts on these topics following the invasion, Glukhovsky had sealed his own fate. By August 2023, he had received an eight-year prison sentence — delivered in absentia by a Russian court — for “deliberately spreading false information about Russia’s armed forces.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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