Brendan Greene’s plan to build a massive digital world
Brendan Greene invented the battle royale genre for video games. His PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) has sold more than 75 million copies since 2017. Instead...
Why representation now means a much better metaverse-to-come
Building out the metaverse, where users interact in a virtual world in real time, raises many big questions, including, will this metaverse or new...
How brands can prosper in the metaverse
Before a brand can prosper in the metaverse, the people behind the brand need to understand what the metaverse actually is. Before the people...
Roblox’s year-end data reveals its metaverse advantage
Roblox had an explosive growth year in 2021, and today the company released some data that shows how it’s a leading contender in the...
Building on the social aspect of games will expand the metaverse
One of the principles of the metaverse as we currently understand it is that it’s a social space. It’s intended to be a world...
GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 opening speech — Blue shirt or red shirt?
Here’s Dean Takahashi’s opening speech at the GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 event. Let me start with a question. Would you like to...
The industrial metaverse: Where simulation and reality meet
No other topic took 2021 by storm quite like the metaverse. As we all experienced yet another year of living through a pandemic, the...
Gaming will lead us to the metaverse
When CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed Facebook’s name to Meta and committed to the metaverse, he said that gaming would lead the way. That’s an...
Can this triple-A game usher in the promise of the metaverse?
This article is part of the VB Special Issue — The metaverse: How close are we? A fully realized metaverse is, maybe first and...
Jason Rubin on Meta’s strategy for the metaverse
When Jason Rubin joined Oculus VR in 2014, he was handed a copy of Ready Player One, one of the books that helped define...