Sandbox VR starts Squid Game Virtuals location-based VR experience on September 29
Sandbox VR, the creator of premium location-based virtual reality experiences, has joined forces with Netflix to launch a cool virtual reality experience based on...
GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming Summit: Keynote speakers announced
In 2020, the gaming industry hit unprecedented highs. Revenues surged for gaming-related businesses, and are now on track to surpass $200 billion by 2024....
The blockchain-based virtual world that can help usher in the metaverse
One of the essential features of a working metaverse will be the ability to move your avatar and assets seamlessly and instantaneously from world...
Community, connection, and vulnerability in the metaverse
Community — central to the success of games, whether they’re online, console, or mobile — is going to be a major factor in how...
Busting the constraints of the metaverse economy with on- and off-platform currencies
“I believe the economy of the metaverse has been constrained by the companies, the players, the users of this environment,” said John Burris, chief...
Eve Online experienced its own GameStop-like short squeeze
All the excitement around GameStop’s stock has bled into GamesBeat’s discussions around the metaverse. And it turns out that stock market manipulation isn’t exclusive to...
What will it take to make good on the promise of the metaverse?
The “How to Build the Metaverse” panel during GamesBeat’s two-day all-digital metaverse event brought together speakers who are tackling the challenges in bringing the...
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,...
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...