Categories Posted inin Business Spin Master to play Bakugan anime in Roblox as metaverse experience Posted byby Rachel Kaser August 4, 2022 1 min Spin Master announced today it is launching a new metaverse experience in Roblox. Starting later this week, its anime Bakugan Battle Planet will be... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Technology InfiniteWorld acquires Super Bit Machine game studio for Web3 expansion Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 4, 2022 6 min InfiniteWorld is serious about Web3 and the metaverse, so it has acquired game studio Super Bit Machine for an undisclosed price. The aim is... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: How should the game industry deal with the recession? Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 29, 2022 9 min As the second quarter earnings results come in, it seems likely that the broader economy is swinging into a recession. The question remains how... Continue Reading 9 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Meta increases the price of Meta Quest 2 VR headsets by $100 Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 26, 2022 2 min Just a day ahead of its second-quarter earnings report, Meta said it would increase the price of its Meta Quest 2 virtual reality headsets... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Technology VRChat is banning all mods, including one for the hearing impaired Posted byby GamesBeat July 26, 2022 2 min The popular virtual reality chat program VRChat is banning mods by adding Easy Anti-Cheat. According to a blog post, The VRChat Security Update is... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Meta gets Keke Palmer to decipher the metaverse Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 26, 2022 1 min Meta has launched a video series to help explain the metaverse, and it has hired Keke Palmer as the host of the show called... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Hackers can see what you’re doing in VR via Big Brother malware Posted byby GamesBeat July 25, 2022 2 min Hackers can see what you’re doing in VR through a piece of malware called Big Brother. Well, sort of. There’s 171 million people worldwide... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Aglet passes 3.5M active users in its Web3 sneakerverse Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 21, 2022 7 min Aglet has built a healthy community of 3.5 million active users for its “sneakerverse,” a metaverse-like online world for “sneakerheads.” This makes it one... Continue Reading 7 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Matthew Ball explains the significance of the metaverse in new book Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 19, 2022 20 min Over the past four years, Matthew Ball, CEO of investment firm Epyllion and the former global head of strategy for Amazon Studios, has been... Continue Reading 20 min
Categories Posted inin Technology 52% of U.S. gamers believe the metaverse will change the game industry Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 13, 2022 2 min About 52% of U.S. gamers believe the metaverse will change the game industry, according to a survey by tech services firm Globant and polling... Continue Reading 2 min