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,...
How the metaverse can shake up storytelling with transmedia characters
The metaverse isn’t just an opportunity for a new kind of social world. It can give players a chance to create stories over multiple...
How Unity is positioning itself to democratize the metaverse
“Right now we’re just at the cusp of getting to the point where a lot of technologies, a lot of concepts, are coming together,...
How pandemic socialization trends have accelerated the move into virtual spaces
What will the social graph look like this year? What is it going to look like two years from now, and how is it...
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...
Don’t miss GamesBeat’s new all-digital event on driving game growth
Join the all-digital event that’s giving game publishers an edge in an uncertain ecosystem. From January 26-28, GamesBeat is bringing together today’s industry leaders...
The DeanBeat: Can you trust someone that you’ve never met in person?
Here’s one of the things that surprised me about the GamesBeat Summit 2020 online-only event that we held last week: Our audience loved messaging...
How Amazon builds games by working backward from players
Mike Frazzini is one of Amazon’s most-experienced homegrown game executives, as he has been at the company for 16 years and has worked on...
Roblox believes user-generated content will bring us the Metaverse
Roblox vice president of developer relations Matt Curtis believes that the future of gaming is user-generated content (UGC), and he delved into the gaming...
The DeanBeat: Learnings from our first online-only event
Thank you to those of you who tuned into our online-only GameBeat Summit 2020 event this week. I had a great time, even though...