Futureverse and Animoca Brands.

Futureverse teams up with Animoca Brands on metaverse/blockchain tech

Futureverse and Animoca Brands have teamed up in a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of blockchain-based metaverse technologies.

Both companies believe in a metaverse built on open standards. Futureverse, which as relationship with Ready Player One author Ernest Cline, is focused on AI and the metaverse. Animoca Brands has hundreds of investments in blockchain game startups and believes in digital property rights made possible by the blockchain.

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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.