In January, the firm acquired cloud streaming startup Polystream with an eye towards future metaverse applications.We live in a time where a company selling fake clothes to real people in a fake world generates $US6 million per day. The publisher raised $150 million in Series C funding last November at a $1.25 billion valuation, with backers such as Andreessen Horowitz, NBA legend Michael Jordan, and the NFL’s 32 Equity investment arm. Just this week, the publisher also announced a pair of additional “play-and-earn” titles-racing game Nitro Nation - World Tour and digital trading card game Epic Spell Wars: Magic Fight-that will be released in 2023. Mythical Games is also working with the National Football League on NFL Rivals, an officially licensed “play-and-own” NFT game. He added that Blankos will be exiting “this early access we’ve been in for a while” as it expands to Epic’s marketplace. īlankos recently announced a new in-game collaboration with fashion brand Burberry, following the initial partnership last year, and the game has also held NFT drops with musician Deadmau5 and The Marathon Clothing.Īlthough the launch timing is still unclear, Linden said that Mythical is planning a series of game updates for when Blankos Block Party launches on the Epic Games Store. Mythical has said that Blankos has already logged more than a million registered user accounts since its open beta launch in December 2020. Mythical has created a bridge from its platform to Ethereum, the leading NFT ecosystem.Īccording to Linden, the Epic Games Store version of Blankos Block Party will be identical to the existing version, which is available through a launcher application that can be downloaded from the game’s official website. Blankos is built on the Mythical Platform, which is a private, permissioned blockchain based on EOSIO, or the same technology that powers the EOS blockchain. They can be resold via Blankos’ marketplace, or can be combined to form new NFTs.Īn NFT is a blockchain token that conveys ownership in an item, such as digital video game goods, artwork, and collectibles. The game uses NFT collectibles to represent user-owned items like unique avatars-which are inspired by the vinyl toy collectibles-and digital apparel. “It's definitely a ‘game-first’ type experience,” he said of Blankos Block Party, “and we're excited to have it on the Epic Games Store.”īlankos Block Party is a PC and Mac action game that lets players co-create and interact in vibrant 3D environments. He added that the studio is more concerned with gameplay and fun experiences rather than token-reward mechanics. Linden said that Mythical Games-which was co-founded by former game industry executives from Activision, Oculus, and EA-is focused on delivering “a safe NFT game” to the Epic Games Store. However, the Pokémon-inspired gameplay has been dinged as shallow, and its play-to-earn economy began collapsing late last year, sending token prices down the drain. “There's a lot of early games that were very much gamified economies, really, more than a game.”Įthereum -based game Axie Infinity has been the biggest success story in the NFT gaming space to date, generating more than $4 billion worth of total NFT trading volume. “They've kind of gone back and forth with some of the skepticism and all that, and rightfully so,” said Linden. However, he added that this is the latest step following years of conversations with Epic about NFT gaming. John Linden, CEO of Mythical Games, told Decrypt that it has been “working with Epic for months now” on bringing NFT games to the marketplace. Epic Games, also the publisher of hit game Fortnite and creator of the widely used Unreal Engine software, has been more open to blockchain-powered games than rival marketplace, Steam. The Epic Games Store is a major platform for digital PC and Mac games, counting over 194 million users as of the end of 2021.
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