Arizona Sunshine's location-based VR edition has up to four players.

Arizona Sunshine makers create new publisher, launch location-based VR version

Vertigo Games, the studio behind best-selling virtual reality game Arizona Sunshine, has announced it has created a separate company entitled Vertigo Arcades that will make it easier for VR developers to create arcade versions of their games.

Built on the Rotterdam, The Netherlands company’s experience in taking the shooter game Arizona Sunshine into arcades, Vertigo Arcades will help VR developers and VR arcades through its VR Arcade Suite, a content launcher for free-roaming location-based (LB) VR titles.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.