Dafen Oil Painting Village: An Immersive Reality

And to think I found haircare to be tedious.

Build a grotesque mutant and then play to their hideous strengths in a highly-detailed sci-fi dungeon.

"We’ve seen the early conversations around visual recoil."

At IGN Live today, THQ Nordic's Reinhard Pollice was on hand to discuss the newly released remake of Gothic. The original Gothic, or Gothic Classic as Pollice said they now referred to it, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Even before the remake, the original had been remastered, and Pollice said he felt the reason for Gothic's longevity was "even by today's standards, it's still a very unique game with a lot of game mechanics that really hold up." He also said he felt "It's not the biggest open world, but I think it's the most immersive and the most alive."

VR gaming has been around for years at this point, and in that time there have been hundreds of horror games. But Into the Dead: Crimson Heights, revealed at IGN Live, claims to be the first hyper reality horror game. This is the fourth Into the Dead game, after a couple of mobile games and a side-scrolling spinoff back in 2025, Our Darkest Days. But this is the first time the nascent franchise will be coming to VR, or rather 'hyper reality'. What seems to seperate HR from VR here is the Meta Quest 3's ability to scan your surroundings, using a camera in the visor. In the trailer,