World of Warcraft cross-faction raiding is on Blizzard’s radar
World of Warcraft‘s upcoming 9.1.5 patch is adding a lot of features that the community has long asked for, like more cosmetic options and...
Metaverse social app Flickplay raises $5M
Metaverse-ready wallet app Flickplay announced that it raised $5 million from investors to fund a social platform that will allow metaverse users to flex...
GamesBeat Summit Next’s agenda is full of ways to level up gaming
We packed a lot of inspiring speakers and sessions into our GamesBeat Summit Next event coming on November 9-10. This post gives you a...
World of Warcraft director Ion Hazzikostas talks the game’s future and current soul-searching
World of Warcraft is in the middle of extraordinary times. The MMO will be turning 17 years old this month, and while Blizzard prepares...
The DeanBeat: Facebook’s ambitions to be the metaverse
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s decision to change his corporation’s name to Meta yesterday at the Facebook Connect online event was a historic moment. The...
The Culture DAO launches the $CULTUR social token at the Virtual Beings Summit
The Virtual Beings Summit online event is a place where real people talk about fake people. That is, they’re part of a society that...
Facebook stops just short of rebranding to ‘The Web’
Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta today. Facebook.com is still Facebook.com, though. This is a move to embrace the metaverse, which is a...
Epic Games and Tribeca team up on Unreal Engine films
Tribeca Enterprises and Epic Games have started a “Writing in Unreal” program to train filmmakers to make independent movies with the Unreal game engine....
Admix raises $25M for in-game advertising as brands seek gamers
Admix has raised $25 million to build its platform for in-game advertising. The timing is good because brands continue to target lucrative consumers who...
Notorious Studios breaks free from World of Warcraft to build its own worlds
Chris Kaleiki worked on World of Warcraft at Blizzard, where he spent years designing and balancing character classes. He even developed the monk for the...