TheMall aims to have 100 floors and 100M square feet in the metaverse

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 18, 2022
Updated June 12, 2025
5 min

The advantage of virtual malls is that they won’t run out of space. A case in point is TheMall, which will debut later this year and will eventually have 100 floors and 100 million square feet of space.

Alan Smithson’s MetaVRse company has been working on TheMall for seven years. In an interview with GamesBeat, Smithson said he expects to launch the mall in the fourth quarter of 2022. It will be accessible on the web with no need for a download or an app or a special hardware platform. And it will use blockchain technology.

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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.