In the upcoming game Virginia,
you can sit down in a diner and enjoy a cup of coffee "black as
midnight on a moonless night," as if you were Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks.
Over the past year or so there's been a wave of games strongly inspired by television, but while studios like Telltale Games focus on modern properties like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones, Virginia is influenced by the weird, surreal mysteries of the 1990s. It's Twin Peaks crossed with The X-Files, with a dash of The Outer Limits
tossed in. The developers at new studio Variable State hope its unique
story and setting will feel a bit different from what you're used to
seeing in a video game. "I hope we can make something more personal,"
says developer Jonathan Burroughs.
