G4 will revive Attack of the Show! and X-Play for network relaunch
G4, the once-popular gaming broadcast network that went off the air in 2014, will bring back two fan-favorite shows — Attack of the Show!...
The metaverse will feel alive once ‘storytelling’ becomes ‘storyliving’
Storytelling is as old as civilization itself. Before we had formalized language, there were stories in pictures. Our picture stories these days are much...
Metaverse startups must heed the mistakes of the past 40 years of virtual worlds
When it comes to the development of the metaverse, we think of companies like Epic Games with Fortnite and Roblox with its huge world,...
Epic Games Store reached 160 million customers in 2020
Epic Games released the 2020 stats for its digital PC store, revealing that it reached 160 million customers in 2020. Epic Games Store launched...
Microsoft’s PlayFab grows ninefold in 3 years
Three years since being acquired, Microsoft’s PlayFab division said today that its monthly active users grew nearly nine times since the software giant acquired...
Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith: We’re not ready for real-world braindancing
Cyberpunk 2077 introduced another take on virtual reality when it launched late last year. Braindancing (the downloading of data from an experience to view...
Now is the time to experiment with virtual reality design
The pandemic has caused a surge in virtual reality sales and use. With everyone forced to stay at home due to worldwide lockdowns, there...
RP1 debuts a scalable platform for the ‘shardless’ metaverse
The metaverse won’t be very fun if you can only see 100 people at a time, like in a battle royale game. You should...
Crucible is creating agents to keep the metaverse open
If you want to cruise around the metaverse in the future, you might do it with multiple digital identities, or agents. And if that...
Tim Sweeney: The open metaverse requires companies to have enlightened self-interest
Twenty years ago, at the dawn of the Xbox era, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney convinced Bill Gates to spend a billion dollars on...