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Reddit NFT avatars selling for a premium on OpenSea
6.9.2022
Reddit’s launch of limited edition NFT avatars has led to a large premium on secondary sales on OpenSea
Metaverse Startup Ready Player Me Raises $56 Million in Series B Led by Andreessen Horowitz
23.8.2022
The AI-generated avatar creation cross-platform for the metaverse, Ready Player Me, has raised $56 million in a Series B funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The startup’s co-founder and CEO Timmu Tõke says the funding will be used to scale the cross-platform metaverse...
Mark Zuckerberg Responds To Graphics Backlash, Promises Metaverse Won't Be Depressing To Look At
19.8.2022
Earlier this week was supposed to be a celebratory time for the folks at Meta, as its reality-devouring project Horizon Worlds was now available in more countries. The occasion was marked by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself posting a “selfie” of his in-game avatar in front of a digital Eiffel...
Mark Zuckerberg's Soulless Metaverse Avatar Has Me Worried About Our Digital Future
17.8.2022
“Metaverse” is a buzzword that has become quite popular in the last two years. Fortnite is a metaverse. Web3 and blockchain will help power the metaverse. Maybe cows will even be a part of it? However, nobody seems more invested in shaping our collective notion of what the metaverse is than Meta...
The Best Steam Deck Games Of 2022
4.8.2022
The Steam Deck, Valve’s mega-powerful mini-PC, only arrived this year, and while there are many reasons to check out one of the most exciting pieces of gaming hardware available today, the amount of great, hassle-free games available on the device is proof enough of its success.Read more
HBO's Historic Virtual Reality Movie Isn't Fully Honest With Itself
2.8.2022
Director Joe Hunting’s documentary We Met In Virtual Reality, the first to be filmed entirely in the social game VRChat, is not as compelling as its multilayered subject matter. It’s filmed at a personal range, with Hunting always hidden but his camera absorbing cartoonish faces like a curious...
Funko Partners With Entertainment Giant Paramount to Drop Avatar Legends NFTs
30.7.2022
On July 29, the pop-culture consumer products firm, Funko, announced that the company has partnered with the multinational mass media and entertainment corporation Paramount Global. The two corporations plan to introduce a series of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) based on the Avatar Legends universe....
The World’s Most Popular Social VR Game Is In Turmoil
28.7.2022
VRChat’s had a hell of a week. On Monday, the wildly popular virtual reality social game announced that its next update would implement Epic Games’ Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) technology, prompting immediate outrage from a large portion of its playerbase. That update landed Tuesday, and since then...
Reddit Avatars Get The NFT Treatment In Cursed Limited-Edition Campaign
8.7.2022
Reddit just announced and opened a “Collectible Avatar” storefront. In this hub you can buy artists’ renditions of the social site’s congenial alien mascot Snoo, except they’re all NFTs. Hold for applause or for a little vomit to come out of your mouth.Read more
Discussion Platform Reddit Introduces Blockchain-Backed Collectible Avatars to 52 Million Users
7.7.2022
The social media and discussion website Reddit has announced the launch of blockchain-backed collectible avatars. The collectible avatars are stored via the Polygon blockchain as the chain was chosen for its “low-cost transactions and sustainability commitments.” Reddit’s...
Stranger Things Creators Are Making A New Live-Action Death Note For Netflix
6.7.2022
Hope you haven’t tired of live-action anime adaptations because the creators of Stranger Things, the Duffer Brothers, are making a new live-action Death Note. Read more
Sources: Unity Laying Off Hundreds Of Staffers
29.6.2022
Unity, the company behind the popular game development engine of the same name, has recently laid off hundreds of staffers, multiple sources tell Kotaku.Read more
Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Getting Three New Animated Films
15.6.2022
Today Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures announced that a trilogy of Avatar: The Last Airbender animated films are in development during the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Read more
The 'Mutes' Of Virtual Reality Are Upending The Metaverse Without Saying A Thing
27.5.2022
In this virtual world, you can dance in zaps of electricity, or in the clouds.Read more
The True Next-Gen Game Is Still Rare AF
26.4.2022
The delineation between console generations is muddier than ever. Microsoft’s two next-gen machines, the Xbox Series X and the slightly lower-powered Xbox Series S, have been out for about a year and a half. In that time, you can count the number of true next-gen Xbox games on one hand. The rare...
Sneaker Giant Adidas and Ready Player Me Partner to Launch AI-Generated Avatar Creation Platform
6.4.2022
The German multinational corporation that crafts athletic shoes, sportswear, and accessories, Adidas announced on Tuesday the company is collaborating with Ready Player Me, a cross-game avatar platform for the metaverse. Adidas and Ready Player Me will launch a personality based AI generated avatar...
NFT Bro’s ‘Metaverse’ Rave Looks Boring, Dead
20.1.2022
A large crowd of unmoving clones standing still in a mostly empty world amid tinny-ass beats that’d sound weak coming out of a Game Boy. It almost seems like they’re waiting for something to happen. But nothing does. They remain largely still, shuffling slightly, perhaps rotating a bit as the music...
Twitch Star Ninja Threatens Pokimane With Legal Action For Alleged 'Harassment'
18.1.2022
In an unnecessary turn of events, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins is threatening fellow streamer Imane “Pokimane” Anys with defamation of character charges. Welcome to 2022, yall. Things are about to get wild from here on out.Read more
What To Expect From Sony In 2022
13.1.2022
The longest year ever, 2021, is finally over. But for all the trials and tribulations it put us through, there’s no denying there were some great games that helped us get through it all. Like Microsoft and Nintendo, Sony had a solid year with strong exclusives like Deathloop, Kena: Bridge...
Pokimane Temporarily Banned On Twitch After Streaming Avatar: The Last Airbender
8.1.2022
Pokimane, one of Twitch’s biggest and most popular streamers with over 8.5 million followers, was banned from the platform last night while streaming herself watching the cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. The ban is temporary, according to Pokimane, but is a sign that Twitch’s growing “TV Meta”...