NEW STUDIO FENIX GAMES RAISED $150M IMMEDIATELY. WHO ARE THEY?
Who is not in the know. In 2017, I hung out in the crypto bit games chat. The chat was created by Rudy Koch, ex senior producer at Blizzard and before that he worked at Activision for 5 years. It was his project that inspired me to come up with the CGP idea. In the end, Rudy and John Linden (studio head at Activision) founded Mythical Games and began to raise their hundreds of millions for Mythical's infrastructure unicorn and its showcase crypto game Blankos Block Party.
But time passed, Blankos did not live up to the hopes placed on him, and it seems that this company was generally kicked out of there 🙂 for poor progress. At least Matt Nath, Chris Koh and Rudy Koch.
$250M+ and they don't even have 50k DAU for 4 years of development. For a cool game similar to a mix of Roblox and Fall Guys on its own blockchain, all in the American league, without tokens with a seamless blockchain for web2 gamers and even reported more than 1 million registrations, but overall KPIs are weak with such investments and a team compared to regular web3 even pharmaceuticals.
In short, it is not surprising that they are overboard ... But no matter how it is!!! Even a bad experience is an experience, especially in web3. That's exactly what I was talking about in yesterday's post. If anyone can raise funds, then mostly these guys are from strategists.
And the announcement comes out Fenix Games closed the round for $150 million led by Phoenix Group and Cypher Capital.
And who do we have here? CEO - Chris Koh with buddies Rudy Koch and Matt Nut. That's it. Reborn from the ashes 🙂
The studio plans to acquire and finance large new startups. Mobile phones are targeted, as the stability and growth of the market is closer to them.
Fenix Games is a Web3 games publisher made up of game industry and Wall Street veterans. The company aims to build a portfolio of projects across the spectrum from Web2 to Web3. In general, the round and this phoenix of yours look suspicious ...
CLOSED BETA IN COLONIZE MARS
The developers of Colonize Mars are preparing to launch a closed beta test. Applications are accepted until December 2. The beta test starts on December 6, 2022 and will run until early 2023.
Colonize Mars is a P2E space adventure strategy game on the WAX Network. Mars colony simulator where players will use their NFTs to help colonies grow, expand territories and build hubs.
MIDNIGHT RAISED $7,5 MILLION TO CREATE A GAME DEVELOPMENT STUDIO
Midnight closed a $7,5 million seed round. Shima Capital was in the lead, Forte, Snackclub, Overwolf, FJ Labs, Bixin Ventures and others took part.
Midnight was founded in 2021 and has over 60 employees. At the moment, work is underway on four projects. The task of the company is to make P2E, F2P games.
ANIMOCA BRANDS WANTS TO CREATE A $2 BILLION FUND FOR BUSINESS IN THE METUNIVERSE
Animoca Brands CEO Yat Siu said the Animoca Capital fund has not yet received an investment, but expects it in 2023. The fund will provide investors with more opportunities to access Web3 companies.
Animoca Brands, founded in 2014, develops and distributes free games and applications of various classes.
ATARI BECOMES CO:CREATE CUSTOMERS
Atari will use the Co:Create platform to create tokens for Atari X project web3 games.
Co:Create is a new platform for brands to launch and manage their own tokens.
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1.OpenSea NFT Marketplace added BNB Chain support.
2.Uniswap launch NFT trading through our own aggregator.
3.MiamiWeb3 Summit will the most significant international institutional event Web3 in 2022.
4. Lacoste opens a gamified store in the metaverse
French fashion brand Lacoste is opening its first-ever virtual store in partnership with Emperia (a company specializing in the design of immersive spaces) ahead of the upcoming holidays.
Upon entering the virtual world of Lacoste, customers pass through the crocodile's mouth and enter a virtual showroom with five seasonal products available for purchase.
The second room of the store is just gamified, the space allows customers to interact with a large number of products in the Christmas assortment.
The third and final token room is for the brand's VIP customers and can only be accessed by members of the Lacoste UNDW3 Web 3.0 community who own a Lacoste NFT.
(In December, unique gifts for customers will appear in this room).
5.AppStore blocked Coinbase Wallet
The AppStore has blocked (https://twitter.com/CoinbaseWallet/status/1598354820905197576) an update to Coinbase Wallet that allows users to transfer NFTs, the project team announced on Twitter. The iOS app store insists that gas payments for digital token transactions must go through Apple's payment system, and the company must receive its 30% commission from them.
According to the Coinbase Wallet team, those who understand how NFTs and blockchain work clearly see that this is not possible. Because the payment for gas goes to the processing of the transaction, and not to any of the parties to the transaction or to the developers. In addition, the payment system in Apple applications does not support cryptocurrencies.
6.Twitter can integrate Signal
Blogger Jane Manchun Wong saidthat Twitter plans to implement Signal's encryption protocol for private messages. As proof, Wong shared screenshots of the Twitter iOS app code, and added that a similar feature is being developed for Android.
On the news, the native Signal MobileCoin token rose 300% from $0,58 to $2,98. The MOB is currently trading at around $1,4.
7. El Salvador Creates National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC)
The Government of El Salvador announced (https://incrypted.com/salvador-sozdaet-nacionalnyj-bitkoin-ofis/) the creation of the Bitcoin Office (ONBTC), which will function as a “specialized administrative unit with functional and technical autonomy within the Presidency of the Republic” .
The purpose of ONBTC will be to develop, diagnose, plan, program, coordinate, control, measure, analyze and evaluate plans, programs and projects related to BTC for the economic development of the country.
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