image: Ubisoft Ubisoft’s ongoing NFT odyssey continues to bewilder and demoralize not just longtime fans but so its own developers. The company recently held another workshop aimed specifically at addressing the concerns of skeptical employees, yet also started giving out special NFTs to some members of the Ghost Recon team to “celebrate” the series’ 20th ...
screenshot: OpenSea/Blockverse/Kotaku Stop me if you’ve heard this before: an NFT project sells a lot of tokens and makes a lot of money for something like that probably there will be in the future. Then the project and those involved disappear with the moneyLeave those who bought it screwed. Well, it has reportedly happened again, ...
In an open letter, Square Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda commented on the company’s plans for NFT, Metaverse and Blockchain. Square Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda has in one open letter at the turn of the year gave some insights into the plans for the future of the company. Including plans for NFTs, the Metaverse, blockchains and ...
On January 1, Yosuke Matsuda, CEO of Square Enix (pictured) decided to call the new year with the company’s plans for things like blockchain and NFTs. You may have read what people thought of the Square Enix announcement on the English language internet, but now let’s take a look at what people thought on the ...
Screenshot: Square Enix / Kotaku We don’t even have a week in 2022 and already another major video game publisher – this time it’s Square Enix – is praising the Metaverse and blockchain gaming and planning to invest more resources in this terrifying version of the future. And according to Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda, ...
image: Ubisoft Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot held a Q&A video this week to try to reassure developers about the company controversial new advance behind NFTs, according to several sources present. But they said his answers were vague and relied on buzz words like “Metaverse” and “Web 3.0”, which still left some discouraged by the company’s ...
image: STALKER 2 STALKER 2 Developer GSC Game World announced yesterday that they will be adding NFTs to the game. The public reception, as you can imagine, was not friendly. NFTs (and the blockchain itself) are an environmental disaster, a pump-and-dump scam and a pointless attack on existing technology and systems that don’t need to ...
image: Kickstarter Last week, Kickstarter made a pretty terrible announcement: the crowdfunding platform would switch its services to the blockchainIt doesn’t have to go anywhere, but it still feels compelled by the lure of … something. Probably money. In a rather optimistic blog post “Let’s Build What’s Next for Crowdfunding Creative Projects “, says Kickstarter,” ...
Don’t tell anyone I copied this for free …Screenshot: Ubisoft / Kotaku I would love to spend a weekend without writing or thinking about NFTs, but apparently we all live in hell. I mean how else do you explain it? Ghost recon NFT helmet that can only be purchased after 600 hours of gaming? The ...
photo: Kevork Djansezian (Getty Images) Did you wonder what old Peter Molyneux did was until recently? Well, in a move that few will surprise, the infamous designer jumps into the world of blockchain gaming and NFT bullshit. His next game, Legacy, is entirely based on technology and “crypto gaming”. Molyneux, who once got a few ...
