Parzival is the main character of Ready Player One.
Parzival is the main character of Ready Player One.
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Open is a metaverse experience coming from Ready Player One creator’s Readyverse

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 8 min

Ernest Cline, the author of Ready Player One, has been tinkering with metaverse ideas for a while. And his next big project is Open, an ambitious “triple-A quality metaverse experience.”

Developed by game studio Walker Labs in collaboration with Readyverse Studios, Open aims to set itself apart by offering a multi-genre, multi-IP, and multi-mode battle royale experience designed for PC and current-generation platforms.

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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.