The Peripheral is coming from Amazon Studios on October 21.
The Peripheral is coming from Amazon Studios on October 21.
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William Gibson’s The Peripheral is the next Amazon TV series to envision the metaverse

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Hollywood has fallen in love with multiverses and metaverses. The good thing about that is that we’re getting a pretty good idea on what the metaverse might be. And that’s why I’m happy to see The Peripheral coming to Prime Video on October 21.

The television series on Amazon’s video platform is based on The Peripheral, a novel by William Gibson, who — before Neal Stephenson coined the term “metaverse” in 1992 with Snow Crash — gave us the term “cyberspace” in his short story Burning Chrome (1982) and his first novel Neuromancer (1984).

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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.