Tag: games

• Yanis Varoufakis on Crypto & the Left, and Techno-Feudalism

  February 13, 2022

  “Rare is the person who could expertly comment – in a single interview! – on the rise of NFTs and their origins in the virtual worlds of gaming, the logic… more ›

• Raph Koster’s real talk about a real metaverse

  February 6, 2022

  Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. Not many people can say “been there,… more ›

• Academics want to preserve video games. The game industry is fighting them in court.

  January 18, 2022

  Research libraries preserve classic texts, films and recordings, but when it comes to video games, it gets complicated. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/01/12/video-game-preservation-emulation/ more ›

• China gaming crackdown: freeze on new video game licences extends into 2022 as 14,000 gaming-related firms shut down

  January 12, 2022

  A previous version of this story said 140,000 gaming-related firms shut down from July to December 2021 and 180,000 in 2020. The actual numbers were 14,000 and 18,000, respectively. https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3161717/china-gaming-crackdown-freeze-new-video-game-licences-extends-2022 more ›

• “Play-to-earn” and Bullshit Jobs

  December 30, 2021

  In Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, David Graeber makes the case that a sizable chunk of the labour economy is essentially people performing useless work, as a sort of subconscious self-preservation… more ›

• Loot is a viral social network that looks like nothing you’ve ever seen

  September 4, 2021

  Today, let’s talk about the latest project from a co-founder of Vine and what it tells us about how the tech industry is evolving. This is a rare tech story… more ›

• The game makers and artists pushing Roblox to its limits

  July 19, 2021

  Like so many Roblox players, digital artist Everest Pipkin has their own abandoned birthday world. Last year, when the pandemic made in-person gatherings impossible, Pipkin downloaded Roblox Studio, the platform’s… more ›

• Luxury’s Battle For The Metaverse

  June 3, 2021

  The creation of a metaverse — an online world that fulfills real-world desires and activities — was always inevitable. From sci-fi novels to Hollywood blockbusters, we have been well prepared… more ›

• Roblox Queen MeganPlays Is Making Millions With a Blocky Digital Empire

  May 2, 2021

  In 2018, Megan Letter (then known by her maiden name, Leeds) was making about $400 a month posting videos of herself playing the life simulation game The Sims on YouTube. It wasn’t… more ›

• Building the metaverse

  April 27, 2021

  The meta-space race is on as competition to create, define and own the metaverse takes off. Billions of dollars are being fueled into building a unified and interconnected digital world,… more ›