The metaverse is coming in the form of The Sandbox.
The metaverse is coming in the form of The Sandbox.
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The Sandbox metaverse hits 2M users and launches Alpha Season 2

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Sandbox, a division of Animoca Brands, has been toiling for years to create its own metaverse. And even while it is still in testing, the virtual world now has more than two million registered users and is launching Alpha Season 2.

The current build of The Sandbox, dubbed Alpha Season 2, opens today and it will feature a wide variety of showcases that companies have been building on their virtual land in The Sandbox’s blocky version of the metaverse, 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.