Jeff Minter returns in style with Polybius for PSVR

Independent developer Jeff Minter has taken the official PlayStation Blog to announce his new game, a remake of the arcade classic Polybius on PlayStation VR. But it wasn't through the typical post, instead as a long and rather funny "story of darkest Basingstoke and the wondrous secret hidden there".

There is not a lot of info about the project itself. Llamasoft is developing this new version exclusively for Sony's VR platform and we can watch it in the first gameplay trailer. Minter promises 120fps in the game to keep the same sense of speed than in the original one, but also with a high resolution. "With that in place and running our lightsynth framework (which took a good while) we were eventually able to show a proof of concept towards the end of last year", he writes.

Many testers have already experienced the game and "one of the guys remarked upon removing the headset that after a couple of minutes he'd felt like a Jedi". He also went on to talk about the unhealthy past of the game and denied every aspect of it: "Despite all its speed and hyperstimulation, you actually find in play that the game has a relaxing, even a mildly therapeutic effect".

Did Polybius ever exist? The game has its own urban legend in video games. There is no evidence of such a title, nor a single ROM of it, but people still talk about an arcade from 1981 that cause players terror, paranoia and amnesia. Now it looks like it is coming out, for real this time around.