Diversity and inclusion are equally important for different reasons
Diversity, equity and inclusion are words that have swiftly come to mean much in the games industry. At GamesBeat Summit Next 2022, a panel...
Web3 gaming needs to get away from speculation
The GamesBeat Summit Next 2022’s ‘How a Punk Bassist’s Legacy Moves the NFT Conversation to one of Earned Value’ panel is worth a watch....
Big screens promote gaming as a social activity
Gaming for social engagement has been a part of the hobby since it began, including things like multiplayer gaming and game streaming. Both are...
Removing the stigma from NFTs
Crypto and blockchain are quite unpopular in the gaming space. Whenever a company mentions it is exploring NFTs in its games, it usually receives...
The crazy metaverse — ideas from the fringe
Any shift in society, whether it’s technological or otherwise, brings a deluge of new ideas. We rarely remember the alternatives provided as the mainstream...
Augmented reality and gaming’s future
The tech business spends a lot of time on VR. Creating exciting new worlds can overshadow the more practical uses of new hardware. This,...
Advertisers need to think like gamers to succeed in the metaverse
One of the more blatant facts about the metaverse is that it isn’t real. It’s all digital. Metaverse spaces are only limited by the...
Blockchain needs a killer game to hit the mainstream
For all that blockchain, crypto and NFTs are in the news these days it’s pretty obvious that it isn’t exactly mainstream. Lots of people...
The DeanBeat: How to make payments in the metaverse
Tilia recently spun out of Linden Lab with the backing of J.P. Morgan Payments to fuel payments for the metaverse. Now it’s in a...
Making the metaverse safe
One of the questions about the metaverse that needs answering is how to make it safe for kids. Every generation born now gets raised...