Category: ROBLOX

Watch: Matthew Ball’s Metaverse Fireside Chat With WaPo’s Gene Park & Myself in Breakroom — Topic Timecodes in the Post!

October 27, 2021

As promised, here's the full video of my recent metaverse fireside chat with metaverse analyst/VC Matthew Ball and The Washington Post's Gene Park in Sine Wave Entertainment's Breakroom. While we chat, Sine Wave founders Rohan Freeman and Adam Frisby (the large bunny) dynamically edited the world's Unity-based environment, which is why an actual bonfire and…
ROBLOX Releases New Rules for Its Metaverse: No Politics, Romance, or Cross-Platform Promotion of Its Virtual Currency Allowed

October 6, 2021

ROBLOX just updated its Terms of Use for customers, and given the many reports describing the massive virtual world platform as a Metaverse, the updates are fairly fascinating. They provoke the blunt question, "Is ROBLOX really making a Metaverse, or is it still making a game for kids?" Because for starters, ROBLOX's version of the…
Netflix’s Ultra-Gory Squid Game Inspires 300+ User-Made Games in ROBLOX, the Metaverse for Kids, Attracting 80+ Million Visits so Far

September 29, 2021

Above: Top results on ROBLOX when searching for "Squid Game" under Experiences. Depending on whether you're a parent or a gamer, this is either horrifying or seriously cool. Then again, if you're an executive at Netflix or at the only Metaverse platform listed on the stock exchange, you might feel a combination of both: Squid…
ROBLOX Exploiting Young Game Developers According to Startling Exposé

August 19, 2021

I usually blog Matthew Ball's Metaverse Primer on Thursdays, but this new exposé by freelance UK journalist Quintin Smith (Wired, Edge, Eurogamer, Kotaku) is important viewing now — and is just as important if not moreso for the future of the Metaverse, and whatever it becomes. In his report (watch above on his People Make…
Future of Metaverse May Depend on Whether Court Decides a Virtual World is Not a Game

May 18, 2021

Pictured: 1867 Historical Role Play, a simulation of 19th century Luxembourg built in ROBLOX Longtime readers may find this hilarious (or hilariously tedious), but you know the long-running debate about whether Second Life is a game or a virtual world platform with games in it? A variation of that debate is now taking place in…
Play in Luxembourg: Authentic 19th Century City Simulation Which Started in SL & Sansar But Moved to ROBLOX

July 22, 2020

1867 Historical Role Play is a simulation game in ROBLOX with a fascinating virtual world history. It began as a Second Life-based project sponsored by a real life museum, and then expanded to Sansar… but then hit some cost and platform barriers. As Hauptmann "Cyberpiper" Weyder explained to me last year: [T]he problem lies in…

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Watch: Matthew Ball’s Metaverse Fireside Chat With WaPo’s Gene Park & Myself in Breakroom — Topic Timecodes in the Post!

ROBLOX Releases New Rules for Its Metaverse: No Politics, Romance, or Cross-Platform Promotion of Its Virtual Currency Allowed

Netflix’s Ultra-Gory Squid Game Inspires 300+ User-Made Games in ROBLOX, the Metaverse for Kids, Attracting 80+ Million Visits so Far

ROBLOX Exploiting Young Game Developers According to Startling Exposé

Future of Metaverse May Depend on Whether Court Decides a Virtual World is Not a Game

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Category: ROBLOX

Watch: Matthew Ball’s Metaverse Fireside Chat With WaPo’s Gene Park & Myself in Breakroom — Topic Timecodes in the Post!

ROBLOX Releases New Rules for Its Metaverse: No Politics, Romance, or Cross-Platform Promotion of Its Virtual Currency Allowed

Netflix’s Ultra-Gory Squid Game Inspires 300+ User-Made Games in ROBLOX, the Metaverse for Kids, Attracting 80+ Million Visits so Far

ROBLOX Exploiting Young Game Developers According to Startling Exposé

Future of Metaverse May Depend on Whether Court Decides a Virtual World is Not a Game

Play in Luxembourg: Authentic 19th Century City Simulation Which Started in SL & Sansar But Moved to ROBLOX