Taskmaster, the UK comedy collection that sees celebrities incomes factors as they full a collection of amusingly ridiculous duties, is getting a VR sport spinoff.
Taskmaster VR will probably be a digital actuality sport that sees gamers taking up the position of contestant. There is not any launch date but, but it surely’s “coming quickly” to Meta Quest and Steam.
Scallywag Arcade, the studio behind the sport, shared a teaser trailer on Wednesday — and we are able to verify that host Greg Davies appears to be like much more terrifying in CGI kind.
Taskmaster has been working for 16 seasons and round 150 episodes, and has featured the likes of comedians James Acaster, Bob Mortimer, Mae Martin, Lolly Adefope, Romesh Ranganathan, and Katherine Ryan, in addition to Nice British Bake Off host Noel Fielding, Am I Being Unreasonable?‘s Daisy Might Cooper, and This Manner Up‘s Aisling Bea. Every collection incorporates a totally different group of celebrities that full challenges — all the things from “knock over the fewest skittles” to “take away the desk tennis ball from the pipe” — earlier than getting awarded factors by Davies, who hosts alongside the present’s creator Alex Horn.
It is a type of reveals that everybody secretly needs they might have a go on, and — whereas most of us won’t ever be well-known sufficient to truly get the invite — the VR model may very well be the following smartest thing.
Taskmaster VR will be wishlisted now on Steam.