InXile launches its Bard’s Tale VR game, The Mage’s Tale

Those who are waiting for the upcoming The Bard’s Tale IV will have something to tide them over in the meantime: InXile Entertainment just released The Mage’s Tale, a virtual reality role-playing game that takes place between The Bard’s Tale III: Thief of Fate (1988) and The Bard’s Tale IV.

The Mage’s Tale is available for $40 on the VR headset Oculus Rift along with the Oculus Touch VR controller. It’s also InXile’s first VR game, though it’s a veteran RPG studio. InXile’s founder is Brian Fargo, who has storied history with creating iconic RPGs. Fargo previously founded Interplay Entertainment, which developed the innovative fantasy RPG The Bard’s Tale in 1985, the postapocalyptic RPG Wasteland in 1988, and later on, its spiritual successor Fallout (1997). It also published several classic RPGs such as Baldur’s Gate in 1998.