Manticore, the startup behind Core, a kind of Fortnite-meets-ROBLOX UGC platform, just announced $100 million in venture funding from Fortnite publisher Epic and other investors. That's not a surprise in itself, especially since ROBLOX's recent IPO made that UGC platform more valuable than top traditional game companies like Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive Software. What's more surprising to me is that the announcement describes Core not as a metaverse nor as a "a digital playground and community" (the company's original description for itself)... but instead, as a "creator multiverse".
Why the term change?
"We have been talking about the multiverse for a long time but didn’t use that word until the last year or so," Manticore CEO Frederic Descamps tells me through a spokesperson. "We see Core as a multitude of universes, connected or not, depending on what the users decide. Players and creators are ultimately the ones who will determine how all these worlds and universes are connected."
It's why, Descamps adds, they're not calling Core a metaverse:
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