HTC just launched its first VR game: Arcade Saga

HTC has one of the flagship virtual reality headsets with the HTC Vive, and now it is creating first-party content for that platform. The Taiwanese company is announcing today that its Vive Studios division is launching Arcade Saga, a title developed internally by its 2 Bears Studios.

Arcade Saga is a collection of three games that use the Vive’s room-scale VR (which is the capability to move around in a room and actively interact with the VR landscape), said David Sapienza, one of the game’s creators at 2 Bears Studios. The idea is to stoke the VR hardware platform by creating content that will help sell it over time, said Joel Breton, head of the HTC Vive Studios division. VR could grow into a $14 billion consumer software market by 2020 — even as sales lag from 2016’s earlier projections — but platform owners such as HTC have to keep pumping money into it in the early days to make sure the ecosystem takes root.