{"id":1464,"date":"2024-07-03T02:19:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T02:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2024-07-03T02:19:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T02:19:38","slug":"amazons-gaming-zone-is-bare-dull-and-totally-misses-the-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/?p=1464","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s Gaming Zone is bare, dull, and totally misses the mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Amazon-Gaming-Zone-1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"link_wrapped_content\">\n<section class=\"wp-block-bigbite-multi-title\"\/>\n<p>Amazon apparently didn\u2019t get the memo that the metaverse is dead. I mean, how else do you explain its new 3D \u201cGaming Zone\u201d showroom that looks like what the 1980s thought the future would be?<\/p>\n<p>The Gaming Zone features the tag \u201cbeyond\u201d as part of its URL, implying that this is something new or revolutionary. It\u2019s really not.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of organizing games as a series of links on the page, this unnecessarily retro Amazon storefront simply arranges them as 3D objects in a virtual space that you can navigate around.<\/p>\n<p>Is it cool to see virtual posters of <em>Shadow of the Erdtree<\/em> and <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows<\/em>? Sure, I guess, if you don\u2019t have a retailer like Best Buy or GameStop near you\u2026<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t really do anything here except turn, walk a few paces, and click to open up the same Amazon product pages you would\u2019ve seen otherwise. Even the \u201carcade cabinets\u201d are there to buy, not to play.<\/p>\n<p>It feels very much like a \u201cmetaverse\u201d project that Amazon had in a drawer, handed off to a developer, and forgot about. What\u2019s the point? Why\u2019d they even make this? Who is it for? We\u2019ll never know\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon apparently didn\u2019t get the memo that the metaverse is dead. I mean, how else do you explain its new 3D \u201cGaming Zone\u201d showroom that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[1227,1229,1230,633,1233,1232,1231,1228],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","tag-amazons","tag-bare","tag-dull","tag-gaming","tag-mark","tag-misses","tag-totally","tag-zone"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}