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...
Balan Wonderworld isn’t so wonderful
As an longtime Sonic fan, I was excited for Balan Wonderworld. This is Sonic creator Yuji Naka’s first project with Square Enix. I hoped...
Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith: We’re not ready for real-world braindancing
Cyberpunk 2077 introduced another take on virtual reality when it launched late last year. Braindancing (the downloading of data from an experience to view...
Now is the time to experiment with virtual reality design
The pandemic has caused a surge in virtual reality sales and use. With everyone forced to stay at home due to worldwide lockdowns, there...
RP1 debuts a scalable platform for the ‘shardless’ metaverse
The metaverse won’t be very fun if you can only see 100 people at a time, like in a battle royale game. You should...
Crucible is creating agents to keep the metaverse open
If you want to cruise around the metaverse in the future, you might do it with multiple digital identities, or agents. And if that...
Tim Sweeney: The open metaverse requires companies to have enlightened self-interest
Twenty years ago, at the dawn of the Xbox era, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney convinced Bill Gates to spend a billion dollars on...
Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki believes users will create the metaverse
Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki wants to inhabit the metaverse — an online place where we work and play and entertain ourselves. He has dreamed...
Hitman 3 is a hit, man
Agent 47 may often find himself covered in red, but Hitman 3 is already in the black. Developer IO Interactive revealed in a GamesIndustry.biz...