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A Fisherman’s Tale Wins VR Game of the Year at VR Awards 2019

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Vertigo Games and Innerspace have won ‘VR Game of The Year’ at yesterday’s third annual VR Awards ceremony with their mind-bending VR puzzle adventure game A Fisherman’s Tale.

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VR Awards took place in London last night; the event is dedicated to outstanding achievements in the virtual reality industry with over 300 representatives of the VR industry present to celebrate the world’s most influential creators in immersive technology.

The full list of finalists for the Game of the Year category are as below:

Winner: A Fisherman’s Tale by Innerspace VR & ARTE France

JAPAN Studio & ASOBI Team – ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission
Ninja Theory – Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice VR Edition
Coatsink – Shadow Point
Sony London Studio – Blood & Truth
Owlchemy Labs – Vacation Simulator
Outerloop Games – Falcon Age
Secret Location – Transpose
First Contact Entertainment – Firewall Zero Hour
Survios – CREED: Rise to Glory
Archiact – FREEDIVER: Triton Down
Resolution Games – Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs
SignSine – PROZE: Enlightenment

In A Fisherman’s Tale, which launched last year, players work with infinite, ever smaller and bigger replications of themselves, using real-life movements to pick up, throw, combine and use all kinds of objects to solve puzzles and find their way out of a world where physics are utterly broken.

Published by Vertigo Games, A Fisherman’s Tale is developed by Innerspace VR in co-production with ARTE France with the support of CNC, Ville de Paris New Media Fund and BPI France.

You can check out the original launch trailer for A Fisherman’s Tale below.

A Fisherman’s Tale is available on PlayStation VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. An Oculus Quest version is coming soon.

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