Mark Zuckerberg said games will be popular in the metaverse.
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The DeanBeat: Our Metaverse Forum takes a shot at defining the metaverse

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 9 min

GamesBeat and Subspace banded together to create the Metaverse Forum some weeks ago, and we got about 60 people from the industry to join our thought-leadership forum. And today is the first public notice about what we’ve been up to. I queried the forum about how they define the metaverse and how they explain it to others.

In my stories, I’ve been saying the metaverse is the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One. 

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.