metaverse
MMO Business Roundup: China’s freeze, ABK’s new diversity officer, and Sony and Epic’s metaverse
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news.
China has ended its latest gaming-approval freeze after nine months of regulators locking out...
SpatialOS developer Improbable announces a ‘network of interoperable web3 metaverses’ called M²
Remember back in January when SpatialOS developer Improbable released a poll that asserted that a large number of gamers and game devs believed a...
GDC 2022: Control, revenue, scarcity, ethics, and the human challenges of the gaming ‘metaverse’
While some panels at GDC 2022 have been deeply disappointing, the panel titled "A Brave New (Virtual) World: Ethics and Governance of XR and...
Cornucopias’ The Island is an upcoming MMO brimming with blockchain babble
Imagine if an MMO developer decided to rake up every NFT and blockchain buzzword and system, then pigeonholed and sewed them together to make...
Vague Patch Notes: The metaverse doesn’t exist and isn’t a good idea either
You can't swing your arms at this point without hearing about "the metaverse" in some capacity, which is supposedly the reason why Facebook changed...
Raph Koster talks metaverse creation and learning lessons from past game design mistakes
"Metaverse." It's the one word that, apparently, drives game execs and investors into a babbling frenzy just seconds before they explode into venture capital...
Second Life’s original founder rejoins the project to create the ultimate metaverse
I swear, every time I have to write the word "metaverse" these days, a part of my soul dies and my eyes get a...
The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMO trend of 2021?
At the end of December, we dished out our award for the best MMO trend of the year. Now, it's time to pinpoint the...
Paris Hilton opens a ‘metaverse business’ in Roblox that will host a virtual DJ set on New Year’s Eve
If earlier news about Roblox hasn't already made your soul leave your body, then consider this one the coup de grâce: Reality TV "star"...
Kickstarted MMO Legends of Aria and its studio just got bought out by an NFT metaverse games company
Time to add another game to the acquisition heap this week: Blue Monster Games has apparently purchased Citadel Studios and Legends of Aria, along...
Second Life’s Philip Rosedale is skeptical about the promises of the metaverse
Let's not kid ourselves, everyone:Â Second Life was doing the metaverse thing before the metaverse was cool. It's basically entirely built around the idea of...
Pokemon Go company Niantic raised more cash to join the metaverse race
If your inbox looks like mine, you're already pretty dang tired of the word metaverse and the chorus of hucksters and grifters currently trying...
SpatialOS had a huge head start on beating Facebook to the metaverse
About five years ago, the word "SpatialOS" was everywhere: It was supposed to be a platform designed to build previously impossible online worlds -...
Facebook commits to hiring 10,000 employees in the EU to build its metaverse
How many people does it take to build a metaverse? If you're Facebook, you have a pretty definitive number: 10,000. That's the amount of...
Playable Worlds’ Raph Koster on the ‘stuff’ inside your virtual worlds
Raph Koster has been penning blogs about the metaverse and how virtual worlds work for several weeks now; his new company, Playable Worlds, has...
Playable Worlds’ Raph Koster is not gonna stop saying the word metaverse
Even though I very much want to play around in whatever weird huge sandbox thing Raph Koster and Playable Worlds are building, I now...
Raph Koster says nobody wants a metaverse with ‘Fairyland butting up against World War II’
In his ongoing blog series on the metaverse, MMO developer Raph Koster has been digging through the technical challenges of how to build it...
Blockchain metaverse Earth 2 lets players plop down holobuildings in latest update
This one is going to need context, primarily because it is flush with MMO buzzwords of the day. Earth 2 styles itself as "a...
So it turns out Raph Koster is building the metaverse and a sandbox MMO on top of it
Last week, we covered Playable Worlds' Raph Koster's teasing about a metaverse. This week, he's delivered a lot more than a tease.
"We have built...
Facebook is building a multi-billion dollar virtual universe
Normally, the announcement of a new MMO or virtual world would elicit nothing but excitement from our quarter, but there's something ominous in hearing...
