Aqua has made an embedded marketplace for Web3 games.
Aqua has made an embedded marketplace for Web3 games.
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Aqua touts Web3 publishing platform and embedded game marketplace

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Among the gaming veterans I ran into at the Game Developers Conference was Sean Ryan, the former vice president of the business platform partnerships at Facebook (Meta) and now the CEO of Aqua.

At GDC 2023, Ryan unveiled the Aqua Marketplace and a partnership with Polygon Labs. He also unveiled a casual games studio to show off what an embedded marketplace can do.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.