Running a metaverse takes continuous corporation engagement, investment, and control.

Metaverse this and metaverse that. NFT this and NFT that. Towards the end of 2021 these were the two buzzwords that had the video game market all-a spin. They are words that capture a possible future where video game worlds are interconnected, from which gamers could transition “investment of time” into money by engaging in the metaverse and selling content.

Forecasts are never easy; this is because most of the time near-future forecasts are specifically wrong but generally right. One place to start is to look back in the previous year and extrapolate what could happen in the forthcoming year. 2021 was not short of ground-breaking news for the video game industry, below is a summary of the biggest news items.