Deadmau5 appears in Pixelynx's music metaverse game.
Deadmau5 appears in Pixelynx's music metaverse game.
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Pixelynx unveils music metaverse gaming platform using Niantic Lightship

Pixelynx, a new music metaverse gaming platform created by musicians and technologists Joel Zimmerman aka deadmau5 and Richie Hawtin, revealed the name of its first mobile game: Elynxir.

Elynxir was unveiled today at the Niantic Lightship Summit in San Francisco by Pixelynx CEO Inder Phull. Niantic also
announced an investment in Pixelynx at the conference.

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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.