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Microsoft backs game developer Wemade in web3 push

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Microsoft has backed Wemade, a popular video game developer that has made aggressive bets on blockchain in recent years, the latest sign of tech giants’ showing growing interest in web3. In the last few years, Wemade has been exploring ways to incorporate blockchain technology into its new titles and offerings.

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Japan’s gaming blockchain builder Oasys raises $20M in private token sale

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Veterans from the established gaming world are flocking to web3. Whether they do it out of a fear of missing out or genuine belief in blockchain technologies, the trend appears irreversible at least for now, as investment keeps pouring into the industry. It will also be spending the money on marketing, business development and hiring.

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5 tips for launching in a crowded web3 gaming market

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Corey Wilton is the co-founder and CEO of Mirai Labs , the gaming studio behind Pegaxy. The first wave of the play-to-earn (P2E) gaming boom seems to be coming to an end. Leverage experience in the traditional gaming studio sphere. Pegaxy was the first game I worked on and the first I launched. Corey Wilton. Contributor.

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Disdain for NFTs in video games is part of a slow green revolution

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There has been stiff backlash against NFTs in video games since they first started popping up. In general, both gamers as well as industry professionals have disapproved blockchain implementations in video games, mostly over concerns over the environmental impact that the technology has.

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For the love of the loot: Blockchain, the metaverse and gaming’s blind spot

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The speed at which gaming has proliferated is matched only by the pace of new buzzwords inundating the ecosystem. The allure is obvious, as the relationship between the blockchain, metaverse and gaming makes sense. Whatever your opinion of either, I believe they both have an interrelated future in gaming.

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Metaverse Magna raises $3.2M at a $30M valuation to build Africa’s largest gaming DAO

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This February, Africa and emerging market-focused Nestcoin raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club and gaming guild Metaverse Magna (MVM). Gaming presents a unique opportunity to help young Africans earn and lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

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Tatum lets you interact with blockchains using API calls

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Meet Tatum , a blockchain infrastructure startup that wants to make it much easier to develop your own blockchain-based product. While blockchain development was quite easy at first, it quickly became much more complicated as new blockchains emerged. There are now dozens of different blockchains.