Ernest Cline, the bestselling author ofReady Player One, apparently never learned the lesson of his own book.

Appropriately, the first IP to be inducted into the Readyverses interactive hellscape will be Ready Player One.

According to apress release, Readyverse Studios has partnered with Warner Bros.

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Discovery to exclusively bring the Ready Player One franchise to the metaverse across web3.

Additional brands and franchises joining The Readyverse will be announced soon, it adds.

The future has arrived even more quickly than I imagined, Cline said, in Thursdays press release.

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More than anything, the Readyverse seems like the natural endpoint for the entertainment industrys insufferable IP obsession.

Personally, Im going to hold off until the IP integrations get really weird.

When will the Readyverse have Eraserhead and Heavens Gate gameplay enabled?

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Somebody call me when that happens.

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