{"id":593450,"date":"2026-04-08T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593450\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:17:08","slug":"starfield-has-competition-project-hail-mary-video-game-confirmed-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593450\/","title":{"rendered":"Starfield Has Competition, Project Hail Mary Video Game Confirmed For 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Amazon MGM has announced that a video game based on Project Hail Mary will release later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Project Hail Mary is one of 2026\u2019s biggest <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/tv-and-film\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">movies<\/a>, raking in $218 million domestically in the United States and Canada, and $203 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $422 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">It seems that success has already propelled the movie into a wider franchise, with a video game adaptation from <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/amazon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon MGM<\/a> already confirmed to be on the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Project Hail Mary: Journey Among The Stars introduces a brand new chapter to the story developed in collaboration with Andy Weir, the original writer of the 2021 book. It\u2019s developed by VR and AR studio behind titles like <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/reviews\/thief-vr-legacy-of-shadow-review-158624-20251202\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow<\/a> and Peaky Blinders: The King\u2019s Ransom.<\/p>\n<p>Project Hail Mary: Journey Among The Stars Puts You In The Role Of Ryland Grace (You Can Literally Be Him)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Described as a \u201cmixed reality game\u201d, which should mean it blends elements of virtual and augmented reality, Project Hail Mary: Journey Among The Stars has you step into the role of Ryland Grace, Ryan Gosling\u2019s character from the movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Taking place at a \u201cpivotal, untold moment in the Hail Mary mission,\u201d you are tasked with solving a problem onboard the spacecraft by diagnosing the problem, improvising the fix, and \u201cpushing the limits of science and engineering\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"article-image_image__XvzgU\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0YmMxODc2MTUyZmNkOWYwNy9ibHRmNGQ2OTc3.webp\"\/>Maze Theory<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Fans of the film will also be pleased to know that Rocky, the alien intelligence at the emotional core of the film, will also be appearing in the game as a side character.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">As Maze Theory describes, the bond with Rocky is something \u201cYou build yourself, through cooperation, problem-solving, and evolving trust\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cSince creating Project Hail Mary a few years ago, fans have been waiting for more. This is the first step outside of what happens in the book and movie, something you can only experience in mixed reality,\u201d says Weir about the new game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars will launch later this year \u201cacross major mixed reality and VR platforms\u201d, with further details being announced in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Based on the 2021 book by Weir, Project Hail Mary stars Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace, a scientist and middle-school teacher who awakens on an interstellar spacecraft with no memory of how he came to be there, and is tasked with a very important mission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Read Next: <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/news\/top-15-games-2026-224324-20260323\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top 15 Games of 2026 So Far<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon MGM has announced that a video game based on Project Hail Mary will release later this year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[64,63,105,39571,238,239,240],"class_list":{"0":"post-593450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-tv-and-film","12":"tag-virtual-reality","13":"tag-virtualreality","14":"tag-vr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}