Grindpunk is the Tony Hawk VR sport of my desires and it’s coming to Quest

What you must know

• Grindpunk is a first-person skateboard simulator for digital actuality headsets.
• Gamers can roam freely by way of a collection of skate parks and might grind, leap, do tips, and even flip on boards.
• The sport is at present alpha testing on PC with Meta Quest 2 slated for a later launch sooner or later.

If the early 2000s are any indication, lots of people dream of getting large air and doing loopy tips with a skateboard. The issue is that while you make a mistake or aren’t extremely bodily coordinated, the repercussions may be dire. Fortuitously, Grindpunk is right here to save lots of the day and permit gamers to meet their desires of changing into the subsequent Tony Hawk with out all of the ache.

The primary large alpha model of Grindpunk has been rolling out to testers over the previous few days, and the posts on social media have been fairly spectacular. Whether or not it is casually skating round grinding on rails and popping just a few items from the preliminary, or flipping straight backwards on a grinding rail, the sport’s physics engine is full with what influencers have known as “intuitive controls” that make the sport enjoyable to observe.