Grindpunk is the Tony Hawk VR recreation of my goals and it’s coming to Quest

What you’ll want to know

• Grindpunk is a first-person skateboard simulator for digital actuality headsets.
• Gamers can roam freely by means of a collection of skate parks and may grind, soar, do tips, and even flip on boards.
• The sport is at the moment alpha testing on PC with Meta Quest 2 slated for a later launch sooner or later.

If the early 2000s are any indication, lots of people dream of getting huge air and doing loopy tips with a skateboard. The issue is that if you make a mistake or aren’t extremely bodily coordinated, the repercussions may be dire. Happily, Grindpunk is right here to avoid wasting the day and permit gamers to meet their goals of changing into the subsequent Tony Hawk with out all of the ache.

The primary huge alpha model of Grindpunk has been rolling out to testers over the previous few days, and the posts on social media have been fairly spectacular. Whether or not it is casually skating round grinding on rails and popping just a few items from the preliminary, or flipping straight backwards on a grinding rail, the sport’s physics engine is full with what influencers have known as “intuitive controls” that make the sport enjoyable to look at.