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...
Obsess: 70% of consumers who visit virtual stores have made purchases
A study showed that 70% of consumers who have visited a virtual store have made a purchase, according to a survey by Obsess. The...
The DeanBeat: Interpreting Microsoft’s $68.7B Activision Blizzard deal as a metaverse play
Microsoft‘s $68.7 billion pending acquisition of Activision Blizzard will shake up the game industry to its core. It has upset the status quo and...
Are you ready and registered for this year’s GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit?
We’re so close to The 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit, the event so nice we’re throwing it twice. On Tuesday, January 25,...
GDC: Game devs focus on unionization, fighting toxicity, and adopting blockchain/metaverse
The Game Developers Conference has released its annual developer survey and found growing support for unionization, the fight against toxicity, and the adoption of...
Improbable: Poll says gamers and game devs expect metaverse to arrive in one to five years
American and British consumers believe that the metaverse will likely come to fruition in one to five years. But while gamers and developers are...