Geoff Keighley's metaverse.

Geoff Keighley launches his own ‘metaverse’ for The Game Awards in Core

Geoff Keighley’s The Game Awards has launched its first official metaverse experience on Core, a platform built by Manticore Games for user-created games, interactive experiences, and live events.

This means that fans will be able to watch and interact with the awards show live on December 9 beginning at 5 p.m. Pacific time from within the virtual environment of Axial Tilt, an interactive world that serves as a metaverse hub for programming and events hosted by Keighley.

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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.