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Xbox's new chief strategist is a metaverse true believer

Matthew Ball was hired to help fix Xbox. Will gamers like what he prescribes?

PC Gamer

Meta says its working on 'multiple next-generation headsets' despite the struggles of VR and the heat death of the metaverse

Down but not out.

PC Gamer

I read Careless People, the Meta tell-all — and it made me want the chapter Sarah Wynn-Williams couldn’t write

Reading Careless People helped me understand how Facebook’s internal culture may have allowed Mark Zuckerberg’s strange metaverse obsession to become Meta’s defining idea.

TechRadar

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Quote of the day by Mark Zuckerberg: 'Metaverse isn't a thing a company builds. It's the next chapter of the internet overall' — a prediction that hit wide of the mark

The Meta CEO's pandemic-era predictions on the future of technology failed to materilaize

TechRadar

Epic Games Unveils Unreal Engine 6, Teases 'Rocket League' Upgrade

The next-generation game engine Unreal Engine 6 is coming soon, with Epic Games teasing it for Rocket League and future metaverse developments.

Player One

Another metaverse is set to die in June

Holoearth, which just launched in 2024, is the latest proof that PC Gamer's Wes Fenlon was right.

PC Gamer

Meta wants to spend more even after it lost $80 billion on the Metaverse and over 20 million users

Meta increased its capital spending by $10 billion because it “continued to underestimate” its compute needs, said its CFO.

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Beyond Gaming: Digital Fashion Industry Drives Demand for Virtual Clothing and Metaverse Style

Explore how the digital fashion industry is growing through virtual clothing and metaverse style beyond gaming.

Fashion Times

“Like A Horror Movie”: Meta Faces Backlash Over Plan To Create Photoreal AI Clone Of Mark Zuckerberg

It’s “probably less weird than engaging with the real version,” the internet joked after the news of Mark Zuckerberg’s AI clone being developed.

Bored Panda

Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Building AI Clone Of Himself To 'Watch' Meta Employees

A reported AI version of Mark Zuckerberg at Meta could interact with employees, give feedback, reflect his leadership style, and potentially act as a digital extension of management inside the company.

International Business Times UK

Meta building Zuckerberg’s AI clone to help employees feel more connected to founder

American tech giant is increasingly investing in AI after scaling down metaverse ambitions

The Independent UK

Rec Room is the latest VR metaverse closure — but I have hopes it'll return in AR

2026 gets another VR casualty as Rec Room announces shutdown, but Snap might have big AR plans for it.

TechRadar

Has Meta Platforms Become Addicted to AI Spending?

Meta is aggressively ramping up its AI spending, even as new rounds of layoffs hit. The company's costly metaverse experiment is echoing loudly, though analysts maintain a positive consensus with a mean price target suggesting substantial upside.

Barchart

Epic kills 3 Fortnite modes amid mass layoffs, including the Rocket League devs' Mario Kart-like which helped kick off the multi-game metaverse era to begin with

"We've built a lot of Fortnite modes, and in some cases we failed to build something awesome enough to attract and retain a large player base"

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ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech stories from Apple's AirPod Max 2 surprise to Nvidia DLSS 5 backlash

The week's top tech news stories from Apple, Sony, Nothing, Nvidia, and more for March 21, 2026

TechRadar

Meta isn’t closing down its VR metaverse after all — it’ll stay live in a limited capacity for ‘the foreseeable future’

Meta's CTO has revealed it won't shut down Horizon Worlds in VR after all.

Creative Bloq

Facebook's Meta rebrand is looking stupider by the day

The metaverse has Meta sorry end.

The Mary Sue

Meta’s VR Metaverse Shutting Down: Here’s why it was doomed from the start

Goodbye!

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Android Central

Horizon Worlds is officially dead on VR. What happens now for the Meta Quest (and the Metaverse)?

Meta is evolving once again, this time fully removing Horizon Worlds from the Meta Quest experience. Here's what that means for your everyday VR sessions.

The Independent UK

Meta shuts down its ‘Horizon Worlds’ metaverse – and then decides not to

Idea and software that inspired Facebook’s name change has failed to take off

Reason

Cesar Chavez Accused of Sexual Abuse

Plus: Mullin vs. Paul, the metaverse lives, the Pentagon wants $200 for the war in Iran, and more...

PC Gamer

Another nail in the Metaverse coffin: Meta Horizon Worlds is shutting down in three months for VR, but the mobile app will remain

You have until the end of March to download it, and until June 15 to play it in VR.

TechRadar

Meta is pulling the plug on its VR metaverse and Meta Quest 3 fans don't know how to respond

Meta’s VR scale-back is heading into phase two as the company has revealed its timeline for the full closure of its Meta Horizon Worlds metaverse.

PC Gamer

PlayerUnknown reckons he can take back the term 'metaverse' because 'It's just been co-opted by certain people… like, I still use Twitter because f**k [Elon Musk]'

Them's fighting words.

TechRadar

AdGuard enters the metaverse: VPN and ad-blocker extensions launch on Meta Quest

Browsing in VR just got cleaner and safer. AdGuard has launched two new extensions for the Meta Quest browser, bringing ad-blocking and VPN privacy to your headset. Here’s how to install them.

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