Square Enix invests in cloud gaming platform Blacknut
Square Enix made a strategic investment in Paris-based cloud gaming platform firm Blacknut. The investment will support ongoing research and development for Blacknut to...
Xbox Game Pass adds Far Cry 5 and Naraka Bladepoint
Xbox finally announced the games that are coming to Xbox Game Pass in the final days of June. Most of the titles it revealed...
Manticore Games sets NFT utility standard for games in Core Metaverse
Manticore Games is enabling non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in its Core metaverse platform, where users can create and host their own multiplayer games and now...
CloudFeather Games lands $1.25M in seed funds for game dev tools
CloudFeather Games is announcing its $1.25M seed funding round, led by Lumikai. Venture Highway is also a participating investor. Angel investors like OYO’s Maninder...
Khronos Group launches standards effort for an open and interoperable metaverse
The Metaverse Standards Forum is announcing that it will attempt to create standards for industries to create an open, interoperable, and inclusive metaverse. It...
Nvidia’s 3D MoMa creates 3D objects from 2D sources
In an announcement at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in New Orleans this week, Nvidia unveiled its new tool for designers to...
Meta expands the “miniverse” with new Horizon Worlds experiences
Meta announced two new applications from big enterprises using the Horizon Worlds metaverse tools. Guitar maker Fender Musical Instruments announced its Fender Stratoverse and...
Mark Zuckerberg unveils ultra-realistic VR display prototypes
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has been spending billions of dollars a quarter on the metaverse, which has moved very quickly from science fiction...
Admix merges with Landvault to move into making metaverse experiences
Admix is merging with Landvault, a builder in metaverse worlds like The Sandbox and Decentraland, as it pivots into Web3. The combined company will...
Kaser Focus: Keigh3 aftermath
Why does it feel like it’s been at least a month since I last wrote one of these columns? Oh right, because so much...