Pre-orders of Oculus Rift will include a copy of EVE Valkyrie, Oculus has announced. The game will premiere first on Oculus.

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey said his company is "excited to partner with CCP to bring this experience to Rift owners everywhere." The bundle will release "Q1" of 2016.

Luckey believes EVE Valkyrie "perfectly captures the promise of immersive gaming," citing its combat and multi-player dogfights as draws and strengths on the Oculus platform.

Valkyrie is an off-shoot of the massively multi-player EVE Online, which is perhaps one of the most complex MMOs currently on the market. Valkyrie focuses on the space combat aspect of the MMO, distilling the experience down to something arguably more palatable to mainstream audiences.

CCP showed off EVE Valkyrie gameplay last March, captured on a VR headset. At PlayStation Experience on December 6, Palmer Luckey appeared in a video for the upcoming Rockband VR, a virtual-reality take on the rock and roll simulator. At E3, Oculus premiered its controllers, the Oculus Touch, as well as announcing a partnership with Microsoft to bring the wireless Xbox One controller to Oculus Rift.