{"id":12403,"date":"2019-02-28T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T02:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/harmonix-announced-new-vr-rhythm-shooter-game-audica\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:29:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:29:52","slug":"harmonix-announced-new-vr-rhythm-shooter-game-audica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/harmonix-announced-new-vr-rhythm-shooter-game-audica\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmonix Announced New VR Rhythm Shooter Game, Audica"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15218\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/audica-trailer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"387\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source: Harmonix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Harmonix, the game developer of many popular music video games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero, is currently working on a new rhythm shooter game for VR called Audica.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">The announcement came via Twitter alongside the release of the game\u2019s official website. According to Harmonix, Audica is a VR rhythm shooter game which combines their award-winning music gameplay with an all-new precision shooting mechanics and a killer soundtrack, all set in a futuristic cosmic arena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Audica is said to be released through Early Access on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowerpc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">gaming computers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> or consoles with Oculus Rift and Steam VR on March 7, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1PwmDO5WCq8&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">In the game, the player will be armed with two rhythm blasters which he can use to shoot and smash targets to the beat of a soundtrack. The better the timing and accuracy, the more score the player will have. It is an intuitive and immersive game that will test your accuracy and timing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Alex Rigopulos, the co-founder of Harmonix, stated that Audica was created because they wanted to create a world that simultaneously evokes music and sound as a sense of place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Aside from the game\u2019s announcement, Harmonix also released Audica\u2019s reveal trailer. According to them, Audica will focus on electronic music and will feature 10 songs upon its Early Access including Splinter by Savant, The Space by James Egbert, and I Want U by Alison Wonderland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Harmonix is targeting a full release of the game by the end of 2019 and hopes to expand the game to other VR platforms like PlayStation VR and Oculus Quest.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harmonix, the game developer of many popular music video games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero, is currently working on a new rhythm shooter game for VR called Audica. The announcement came via Twitter alongside the release of the game\u2019s official website. According to Harmonix, Audica is a VR rhythm shooter game which combines&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/harmonix-announced-new-vr-rhythm-shooter-game-audica\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harmonix Announced New VR Rhythm Shooter Game, Audica<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2732,2741,2724],"tags":[5448,5449,770,1216,5450,5451],"class_list":["post-12403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","category-gaming-reviews-news","category-news","tag-audica","tag-audica-vr","tag-cyberpowerpc","tag-gaming-computers","tag-harmonix","tag-harmonix-new-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16922,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403\/revisions\/16922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}