Meta updates avatars for cross-platform and inclusivity
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is serious about the metaverse and you can see that in its more expressive cross-platform avatars. The...
MLB The Show 22 is hitting Switch
MLB The Show 22 is coming April 5, and the baseball franchise is heading to Switch for the first time. Sony Interactive Entertainment publishes...
PlayVS adds Hearthstone to high school esports platform
PlayVS announced an exclusive partnership with Activision Blizzard to add Hearthstone alongside Overwatch (an existing PlayVS regional league title) to the PlayVS high school...
Gran Turismo 7 gets PlayStation State of Play this week
Sony is holding one of its semi-regular online video events for one of its major upcoming releases. The company announced plans for a Gran...
U.S. states and Justice Department pile in on Epic’s side in Apple lawsuit
A total of 35 U.S. states joined in an antitrust lawsuit to back up Epic Games’ lawsuit against Apple over alleged monopolistic practices. Those...
The metaverse will bring new forms of toxicity and will require new tools
As the adoption of the metaverse approaches, one factor that seems like an inevitability is toxic behavior. Such behavior is unfortunately prolific in online...
Raph Koster’s real talk about a real metaverse
Not many people can say “been there, done that” on the metaverse. But Raph Koster, CEO of Playable Worlds, has been making online worlds...
Can the Omniverse help us make a better world with a digital twin?
Most of our focus on GamesBeat is… well, games. Games are a huge part of the current world and have led, in interesting ways,...
Improbable is attacking the metaverse’s networking problem
Herman Narula, CEO of Improbable, is trying to solve the networking problem of the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected,...
Blockchain game advocates aim for the mainstream
Blockchain games are on the defensive lately, and resistance from hardcore gamers and game developers could reverse the progress that nonfungible tokens (NFTs) made...
