In April Fast Company published a short interview with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney in which he speaks about both the metaverse generally and their specific plans in this space.
If you're interested in gaming and / or the metaverse it's worth a read.
Activision Blizzard have shared details about an internally developed and employed tool to quantify character diversity in their games, for the purpose of improving it.
Which has been met with unfair criticism from people who approve of efforts to improve diversity but raise a range of irrational objections to the method.
Publisher Slitherine has released half an hour of gameplay footage and developer commentary for their upcoming tactical roleplaying game, Stargate: Timekeepers.
This is from the same event Home of Wargamer's event we recently highlighted but just Stargate.
Originally scheduled for a November (i.e. 11) 11 release which would coincide with Skyrim's 11th anniversary, Bethesda have delayed their sci-fi roleplaying game, Starfield to 2023.
Joining it is Arkane's first person shooter vampire game, Redfall.
During their Home of Wargamers event, publisher Slitherine revealed that they're aiming for upcoming tactical roleplaying game Stargate: Timekeepers to launch a public beta coinciding with the 25th Anniversary of Stargate: SG1.
Video Games Chronicle report that an N7 day lithograph description may have unintentionally revealed plans for the next Mass Effect game to see a return of major character Shepard from the original trilogy.
That description has since been altered and officially brushed off as a mistake but with ambiguous language which doesn't explicitly deny Shepard's return.