+7 NEW ESPORTS ORGANIZATIONS ON GOG
Recall that the first partner of Guild of Guardians steel NRG. The other day GoG onboarded 7 more star esports partners and now the list looks like this: NAVI, Cloud9, NRG, Fnatic, Ninjas in Pajamas, SK Gaming, Team Liquid, T1 Entertainment & Sports.
A solid skill-based crypto project from the same publisher as Gods Unchained in co-development with Stepico and participated in season 6 of Ubisoft's Entrepreneurs Lab.
Bonus: a brief history of Immutable.
EARLY ACCESS AND PRESALE TOKENS IN CROSS THE AGES
Waited almost forever. On September 23 at 19:00 (GMT+3), the card game Cross the Ages was released in early access. The developers did not forget about the heating of interest and prepared a pre-sale of $CTA tokens with a big discount.
Next month, on October 25 at 19:00 (GMT+3), Early Access will end and the global release of Cross The Ages: TCG will be released. Users are waiting for Neo chests, Special Rare cards via airdrop, and they also promise to publish books of the novel by the end of the year, which will contain additional cards.
From the interesting: The game combines F2P and P2E economy, NFT cards will be connected with physical ones, and Ubisoft and Animoca Brands participated in the Seed round.
SOUTH KOREA CITY GIVEAWAYS NFT CITIZENSHIP IN THE METOVIVE
One of the South Korean towns of Seongnam decided to create a metaverse of his city and launch NFT citizenship there. In addition, the South Korean government strongly supports and finances companies creating content for the metaverse.
RANDOM GAMES ATTRACTED NOT ONLY $7.6 MILLION BUT THE CREATOR OF GTA
Random Games plans to make not just crypto games, but first of all interesting games. To do this, they brought in GTA creator David Jones. He took the role of investor and advisor in the project.
Together with Jones, the round was led by Resolute Ventures and Asymmetric. Ignia, 2 Punks Capital, ID345 and Polygon took part.
CHAINALYSIS REPORT ON CRYPTO GAME MARKETS IN THE CSAO REGION
– 58% of Central, South Asia and Oceania (CSAO) web traffic was related to NFTs, and 21% to crypto games in Q2 2022.
– For the second year in a row, Vietnam ranks first in the crypto adoption ranking.
– The Philippines has risen from 15th place to second in crypto rankings.
– 25% of Filipinos and 23% of Vietnamese have ever played crypto games.
– On April 1, 2022, India introduced a 30% income tax, and then added another 1% on each transaction.
ANDREW CHEN HURRYING WITH GAMES FUND ONE NEWS
Andrew Chen GP the same fund A16Z for $600M for the development of gaming, avatars and the metaverse reports the first achievements:
• Hired Doug McCracken as Partner, Head of Games Marketing. Service record (Marketing Lead at Supercell - 7 years; CMO at Riot Games led Marketing at League of Legends - 2 years; Senior Director of Product Management at Activision - almost 8 years).
• Hired Lester Chen as Partner, Gaming Creator Lead. Track record (Nearly 8 years in various leadership roles primarily related to partnerships with game and content creators at YouTube Gaming).
• Hired Josh Lu as Games Investor. Service record (Director of Product Management, Horizon/Meta - 1,5 years; VP, Commercial Director at Blizzard Entertainment 2,5 years; Product Manager at Zynga - 5 years).
•Omega Strikers Launched closed beta on steam. F2P game with PvP 3v3 core mechanics. The crypt was not found in it.
• Funded by Theorycraft Games (web2 studio with a mission to create deep games with co-op for 10k+ hours of gameplay with an experienced CEO, previously EVP in LoL, Riot Games, Halo, Destiny), Ready player me (cross-gaming 3D avatars that work like the usual Google login), Gym Class VR (basket in VR + social mechanics).
• Invested in Azra Games (Web3 game development studio from the creators of Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes with $1 billion in revenue).
• Invested in Bitcraft Online from Clockwork Labs. Promising sandbox MMO with some super innovative solution for scaling massive games and web3 applications. We built a distributed database architecture from scratch. This will allow them to create a single, undivided world. A social network-wide permission system for real-time communication and minimal latency. Alpha is planned for this year. Trailer
If you evaluate the web3 portfolio of a16z, then there is a correlation that competencies are closed and projects are selected that enhance the social aspect in games and strengthen the role of the community.
The current situation on the market can be described by the proverb: "Dogs bark, but the caravan moves on."
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1.After the acquisition of WePlay Media, Animoca Brands has added project MotoGP: Championship Quest in the list of their games.
2.Blockchain Brawlers today launches Open Beta, which is expected to add a PvP mode.
3.Creator of the Azuki NFT Collection attracts $30m in Series A round. With $300m implied valuation – $400m.
4.The latest text of the EU Digital Assets Act (MiCA) equates NFTs with securities.
5.Blockchain Ultra объявил about integration with Discord.
6. Announced the main competitor Oculus.
The Chinese company Pico began accepting pre-orders for VR helmet 4 generations at the price of $ 429.
In a lighter device, they promise to increase the viewing angle (105 degrees versus 90 for the Quest 2), improve the resolution to 4K +, upgrade the processor and embed an avatar editor that can be used in different applications (hello interoperability).
There are no features in the network yet new Oculus Quest Pro, but it will definitely be at least twice as expensive as Pico (the price is quoted from $800 to $1500).
Pico already has a platform with hundreds of games that is much easier to get into than Meta's VR store.
The previous generation of Chinese helmets was in no way inferior to the Quest 2.
Probably, the new model can become the first true competitor of Meta if the company again does not decide to subsidize the device (the original price of Oculus Quest 2 - $ 299 was below the cost, Zuckerberg explained this by the fact that he wants to give the opportunity to try VR to as many people as possible).
7. The fee for the first NFT after the Ethereum Merger is $60,2k.
It became known that the very first non-interchangeable token (NFT), minted after The Merge of the Ethereum (ETH) networks, cost its creator a lot. He paid $60,2k in transaction fees.
The Ethereum merge took place at 9:44 am Moscow time on September 15, 2022. After 17 seconds, the first NFT was generated on the new network. Its creator paid a fee of 36,8 ETH. The new piece of virtual art is called the transition. It features the Ethereum panda mascot and is part of a 100 token collection on the NFT marketplace OpenSea.
A link to a transaction that shows key details related to Ethereum, including the level of difficulty at the time of generation and the timestamp.
The NFT author also created a Twitter account for The Transition. He stated that the token was minted in honor of a new era in the Ethereum network. NFT and is already up for sale. Users began to say that this collection, like its main virtual item, has already gone down in history. They recalled: for the first time, the panda mascot appeared as a non-fungible token back in 2019 (PandETH), but the current case is special.
8.Bandai Namco and SEGA Plan Blockchain Games
Major gaming firms (Bandai Namco and SEGA) are working to encourage the mainstream adoption of blockchain games and are reluctant to “change that policy,” even if it causes resistance from some.
The Japanese gaming giants are gearing up for the mass adoption of blockchain gaming and will not be swayed by a section of gamers who oppose cryptographic and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the chief executive of blockchain project Oasys told Cointelegraph.
Speaking to Cointelegraph at Tokyo Games Show 2022 last week, Oasys spokesperson director Ryo Matsubara emphasized that well-known project partners such as Bandai Namco, Sega and Square Enix are not just jumping on the cryptocurrency bandwagon – they have a long-term vision. Blockchain-based Play-to-Eear (P2E) games.
Bandai Namco has developed beloved games such as Tekken and Pac-Man, Sega's most famous game is generally considered to be Sonic the Hedgehog, and Square Enix is the developer of the widely popular Final Fantasy franchise.
Asked if these companies want to integrate blockchain technology into their current game franchises, Matsubara suggested that they are initially considering developing entirely new blockchain games instead.
He noted that since this is a completely “new model” of gaming, it needs more time to mature before these big companies consider broader blockchain integration with traditional games.
Looking at what needs to be improved in blockchain games, Matsubara noted that so far the “big problem” is that many projects are too dependent on the price of in-game tokens. As a result, the demand is more for "speculation" than for the gameplay itself.
He went on to note that there will be an "adjustment" over time as the projects work to create genuine hype around the games themselves, most likely by improving the overall gaming experience.
This echoed the sentiment of Australian game developer and Animoca Brands subsidiary Blowfish Studios lead community manager Luke Sillay, who also attended the event.
During the interview, Sillay emphasized that more people want to play games that are really “fun to play” and not just earn tokens.
The Oasys Proof-of-Stake blockchain is focused directly on games and is tentatively scheduled for an official mainnet launch in the remaining months of this year. Matsubara also hinted that games from his big-name partners are likely to be announced next year.
Outside of Japan, major Western gaming companies such as Fortnite developers, Epic Games, have become more active in blockchain gaming lately. Last week, a new free-to-play NFT game called Blankos Block Party from Mythical Games appeared on the Epic Games Store.
The move follows comments by Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney in July in which he stated that his company would "definitely" not follow Microsoft's Minecraft in banning NFT integration in games.
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