A Japanese gaming company says its goal is to deliver blockchain-enabled titles that are enjoyable for players — harnessing nonfungible tokens to allow gamers to uncover skills and characters that no one else has. Axel Mark says its flagship game, Contract Servant, delivers an experience that’s entirely different to rivals. Other trading formats focus on offering rare “strong” cards that command exceedingly high prices on secondary markets, but developers say such a scenario is “unlikely to occur” in their specially built ecosystem. The team says it has aimed to ensure that cards that may not be valuable to one player …

United States transnational IT firm Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has joined the Blockchain Game Alliance and forged two new partnerships to help advance the technology’s use in the industry. A Dec. 12 press release revealed that the chip manufacturing giant is partnering with blockchain technology providers Robot Cache and ULTRA — both of whom are working to develop and operate blockchain-based online gaming marketplaces. These marketplaces aim to establish new, secure purchase options and distribution channels for game publishers and users. The Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA) is an organization committed to the adoption of blockchain technologies in gaming by promoting …

Blockchain is transforming the financial industry right before our eyes, with many market onlookers anticipating a complete replacement of existing payment, trading and banking infrastructures. Blockchain and finance seem like the perfect match, but there are other sectors, for which the technology may play a game-changing role. For one particular industry, the latter adjective isn’t figurative at all, because blockchain can do just that – change the gaming market. This is a unique chance for investors, and it seems like they don’t want to miss it. During the last few years, the gaming industry has been pampered with several innovations …

A blockchain-powered trading card game says it bridges the gap between the digital and the physical world. With eye-catching designs and an addictive EXP-based trading card system, the magical world of Cryptomages delivers a plethora of characters and battle modes. Its creators at Transcendence say their goal is to deliver an engaging title that will become a new favorite of players around the world. Online tournaments will be taking place on a regular basis, and multiplayer modes will be available for those who want to play with friends and like-minded gamers. Cryptomages brings together the strengths of two blockchains: TELOS …

Microsoft, major game developer Eidos and gamebook firm Fabled Lands are jointly developing a blockchain card game based on a 1980s best-selling gamebook. According to a press release published on Dec. 1, the new card game will be based on the 1980s best-selling book called “The Way of the Tiger,” written by Jamie Thomson and Mark Smith. The game’s title will be “Arena of Death” and its players will fight in fantasy-themed card battles with features from the original gamebook series. Ensuring card ownership Thomson is also Fabled Lands’ chief executive officer and decided to use blockchain technology because he …

Everyone has an opinion on which cryptocurrency represents the future — the one that has the most utility or the one that has the most promise. Now, a new game is being built for fans of these crypto projects — giving them a chance to settle their differences once and for all. Whether a player is Bitcoin versus Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum versus EOS, or EOS versus Tron, Chain Clash hopes to create an engaging environment where clans of crypto fans can battle it out in 3D fights. Avatars represent the members of each clan, and they can either have a …

Blockchain game F1 Delta Time — licensed by the world-renowned racing series Formula 1 — is holding an auction of F1 car-branded non-fungible tokens (NFTs) later this week. According to an announcement on Nov. 22, the auction will be held on Nov. 28, with fans already able to participate in a live contest to compete for various related prizes. As previously reported, F1 Delta Time purportedly draws 1.6 billion television viewers across over 180 territories and engage 506 million fans worldwide. NFTs to be functional within F1 blockchain game Unlike most cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens are a form of a digital …

Ubisoft, the game development giant behind the videogame Assassin’s Creed, partnered with EOS-based game distribution platform Ultra. According to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Nov. 21, Ubisoft will be a corporate block producer on the testnet version of Ultra’s EOS sidechain, dubbed UOS. As such, the company will help maintain the network and approve transactions on it during the trial period. Alignment of interests Transactions on the network will include in-game asset creation, ownership transfers between players and payments. Per the release, Ultra chose Ubisoft as a block producer because it is in the game developer’s best interest …

Donnerlab, an online gaming platform that builds lightning games and applications, lets gamers hunt for Bitcoin (BTC) and pick-up “Satoshi cubes.” Shoot other players and collect satoshis In a tweet on Nov. 19, Donnerlab announced the launch of its latest project, titled Bitcoin Bounty Hunt, a fully lightning-native multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS) game. The Lightning network is a payment protocol that allows for fast, micropayments between two so-called nodes — in this case, gamers. Donnerlabs was founded by twenty-five-year-old Konstantin Nick after the 2018 Lightning Hackday in Munich, Germany, as a means to introduce the world’s largest cryptocurrency to more …

Ethereum (ETH) based trading card game Gods Unchained has far outstripped CryptoKitties by volume after a censorship scandal involving game-developer Blizzard. As blockchain research platform Coin Metrics noted on Nov. 12, the past month has seen activity explode for the game, with interest dwarfing that of CryptoKitties at its 2017 peak. Data: Gods Unchained volume five times higher In terms of daily transfers of its non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Gods Unchained was recording almost 500,000 such transfers per day at the end of last week. By contrast, even at the height of the CryptoKitties craze in late 2017, transfers there totaled …

United States blockchain-based rewards and marketing company Refereum has announced its latest partnership with decentralized streaming platform DLive to reward gamers for creating and watching content. According to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Nov. 7, Refereum’s partnership with one of blockchain’s largest streaming platforms, DLive, will enable users to earn rewards for live-streaming games. DLive is reportedly the first blockchain-powered streaming service to join the Refereum platform, alongside Twitch and Mixer. DLive CEO Charles Wayn said: “Bringing benefits to our streamers is always one of DLive team’s priorities. We are so happy to partner with Refereum to achieve …

To date, there have been a wide range of blockchain games offering its users the chance to acquire tokens while enjoying a gripping gaming process. Nevertheless, the majority of the masses is still trying to stay away from such a way of gaining digital assets. One reason is that some notorious game developers are not particularly honest with players, and are trying to make a quick profit through gambling tricks and speculation. Another point is that a lot of games incorporate, to a large extent, the features associated with a new decentralized economy, thereby lacking an appealing design and captivating …