Nerd Street Gamers raises $11.5 million for digital esports platform
Nerd Street Gamers has raised $11.5 million to expand its digital esports platform even while its esports training centers have been closed. The new...
Community, connection, and vulnerability in the metaverse
Community — central to the success of games, whether they’re online, console, or mobile — is going to be a major factor in how...
GamesBeat Decides: The best (and worst) Hitman trilogy levels
Since Hitman 3‘s release last month, Jeff Grubb and I have been having a great time murdering our way through IO Interactive’s world-spanning levels....
“We’re only just scratching the surface”: The potential of 5G in creating the metaverse
5G is the next big frontier in enabling new forms of entertainment — especially the metaverse. The technology is starting to catch up with...
The RetroBeat: Classic Mega Man is better than the X series
A week or so ago, I once again got mad because of a tweet. Specifically, it was this one from Nintendo of America, asking...
Eve Online experienced its own GameStop-like short squeeze
All the excitement around GameStop’s stock has bled into GamesBeat’s discussions around the metaverse. And it turns out that stock market manipulation isn’t exclusive to...
The metaverse will feel alive once ‘storytelling’ becomes ‘storyliving’
Storytelling is as old as civilization itself. Before we had formalized language, there were stories in pictures. Our picture stories these days are much...
Metaverse startups must heed the mistakes of the past 40 years of virtual worlds
When it comes to the development of the metaverse, we think of companies like Epic Games with Fortnite and Roblox with its huge world,...
Epic Games Store reached 160 million customers in 2020
Epic Games released the 2020 stats for its digital PC store, revealing that it reached 160 million customers in 2020. Epic Games Store launched...
How the metaverse can shake up storytelling with transmedia characters
The metaverse isn’t just an opportunity for a new kind of social world. It can give players a chance to create stories over multiple...