Today I sat down with Timmu Tõke, the CEO and co-founder of the cross-game avatar platform Ready Player Me, to talk about the mindset behind the Metaverse, avatars for VR, deep learning, blockchain, interoperability, and more! The Metaverse is coming. And it won’t be a single app — there will…

What is Syzygy? When I first started working at Subnation, my first project was to co-create the cyberpunk storyworld of Syzygy to further engage consumers with Atari Hotels. …

Today I sat down with Ryan Gill, the co-founder of Crucible, to talk about the Open Metaverse, DAOs, Direct-to-Avatar, the Emergence SDK, web3, Self Sovereign Identity, and more. Crucible believes in the inevitability of an Open Metaverse, and works to build tools and communities to bring it to reality the…

Today I sat down with Jean-Paul Faraj, the UX designer and Head of Growth for Influence, to discuss their new release, storyworlds, avatars, in-game NFTs, blockchain games, decentralized finance, and more! It’s going to be a lot of fun! The Infleunce team is creating one of the first worlds within…

Take a look at any Twitter, YouTube, or reddit post about one of the newer entries in the Paper Mario series, and you’ll likely find a battle in the comment section that has broken out over an element of Nintendo’s cult favorite franchise.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the economy of the Philippines went into a tailspin, with people unable to go to work due to lockdowns. Unexpectedly, many have turned to the Metaverse as a way to make money from home. The Metaverse: a persistent, live digital universe that affords individuals a…

Year after year, the Nintendo Direct never fails to be my favorite presentation at E3 — and it’s not just because Nintendo is my favorite game company. Instead of hiring some cool zillennial YouTuber or seasoned host to show off their latest games, Nintendo opts for somewhat serious Japanese and…

Doctor Who? Today we all need to take a moment and reflect upon the 30th birthday of everyone’s favorite anthropomorphic hedgehog — and no I’m not referring to Sonichu. I’m talking about Sonic the Hedgehog! My first Sonic related memory was actually an argument I had with my older cousin while I…

“Game balance is when there is no one dominant strategy/every strategy has a viable counter.” -/u/nambot Creating a well balanced game is difficult. Hours upon hours of hard work are put into refining the smallest details of a game in order to deliver a rewarding and balanced experience to the…