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Grand Theft Auto VI Crypto Rumors
Rumors that the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI will include cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are once again fueling speculation among fans.
The posts shared on Twitter suggest that GTA 6 will be a play-to-earn game and that in-game items such as cars and weapons will be NFTs.
Rockstar Games, the makers of GTA, have yet to weigh in on whether there is any truth to these claims, but it seems there is little concrete evidence to support the rumours.
The company cracked down on the use of crypto in GTA last November and sent cease-and-desist letters to companies running public servers with blockchain integration – a blow to many game makers who had built their games on the platform.
Given that GTA 5, released in 2015, has sold over 180 million copies and generated $8 billion in revenue, it seems unlikely that Rockstar will drastically alter the franchise’s successful formula, with its latest installment coming next year or so. expected to come. 2025.
Sure, there may be a crypto element, but not necessarily the one the crypto bros want. Game Rant suggests that Rockstar Games is more likely to use crypto as the butt of its in-game jokes.
Doctor Who joins the Top Gear sandbox
sci-fi series am doctor and the British Motoring Show top GearBoth popular BBC franchises will enter the metaverse through The Sandbox after announcing a collaboration with the virtual world platform.
The partnership with Web3 company Reality+ is set to launch the space later this year.
Nicky Sheard, President of Brand and Licensing with BBC Studios, believes that while the metaverse is still in its infancy, it could shape how we consume and experience entertainment in the future.
“I look forward to seeing how fans interact with our brands in this space. This project is part of BBC Studios’ wider ambitious plans to grow our brand into new categories, with innovative technology and platforms driving its an integral part,” she said.
BBC Studios, a commercial production company under the BBC umbrella, will join 400 other entertainment brands The Sandbox has worked with, including Warner Music Group, Ubisoft, Gucci, The Walking Dead and Adidas.
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STEPN integrates Apple Pay for its NFTs
Move-to-Earn app STEPN is making it easier to buy NFTs for your games by adding an in-app Apple Pay payment option.
Users will be able to buy Spark Credits using fiat, with ten Spark Credits being equal to 1 USDC, which can be used to buy NFTs.
“This eliminates the need to connect a separate crypto wallet and streamlines the payment process, making it easier than ever for our community to access our offerings,” STEPN Said on medium.
The catch is that buying sneakers with fiat will be more expensive, which STEPN attributes to “taxation” on each in-app purchase.
Onboarding has long been a challenge for the widespread adoption of Web3 games, and STEPN is no exception. Its onboarding process is cumbersome, and users have to buy a sneaker NFT — figuring out which one works best for you — from a marketplace and transferring it to the in-wallet app.
But the company may be more in the works when it comes to making onboarding easier.
It added, “Our integration with Apple Pay is just the beginning of our vision of making Web3 technology accessible to all.”
Battle Of The Titans Dev Competition Is Back For A Second Season
MatchboxDAO is Bring in Its Battle of Titans web3 racing game is back for a second season this week.
Beginning June 4th, dev teams from more than 60 Web3 companies, including Immutable, StarkNet and Phantom, will compete in a fully on-chain Mario Kart-style game.
Each car is a smart contract that must be programmed to reach the end of the track while factoring in attacking and defending against other players using bananas, shells and shields.
The first edition of the game in January featured teams from Ledger, Polygon, Near, Yield Guild Games and others, with a dev team from Uniswap emerging as the winner.
The new season will also add a community component where viewers will be able to vote for their favorite team.
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Captain Tsubasa Web3 Game Launches Governance Token
Captain Tsubasa – Rivals, a football game based on the popular manga Captain Tsubasa, has launched a governance token.
Web3 companies Thirdverse Group and Blocksmith & Co launched the game in January. Players can train characters from the manga and play against each other in matches.
Game producer Shun Fujiyoshi, who is currently the head of BLOCKSMITH & Co, said that various mechanisms are in place to maintain the value of utility tokens.
“These measures include in-game consumption points and mechanisms to control price fluctuations due to speculative trading,” he said in a statement.
Created by Yoichi Takahashi in 1981, 70 million copies of the original Captain Tsubasa manga have been sold in Japan alone. It has been translated into more than 20 languages.
Illuvium Raises Additional $10M in Funding
Crypto venture firm Framework Ventures has invested $10 million in gaming studio Illuvium, which will be used to accelerate the development of the Illuvium universe.
Australia-based Illuvium said the new funding will give it a comfortable runway through its launch into open beta and beyond.
It is planning an upcoming open beta featuring its City Builder Zero, open-world monster hunter overworld, and Auto Battler Arena.
The company had earlier raised $5 million in a Framework Ventures-backed seed round in March 2021. It raised $72 million during the sale of NFT Land in June last year.
Hot Take: Collecting NFTs for a Small Piece of Thai Chicken
In this edition, I caught a Web3 project in the wild.
The line for tickets to go up the Mahanakhon, Thailand’s tallest skyscraper, a poster on one side next to an advertisement for coffee and an emergency defibrillator caught my attention: Amazing Thailand NFT Season 2. Travel to earn amazing Expat NFTs.
Easily convinced, I downloaded the app.
In mid-April this year, the Tourism Administration of Thailand (TAT) launched the second round of NFTs for the NFT tourism project it is piloting. Using an app called YAK, tourists can check in at various locations across the country and receive travel NFTs in return.
Backpackers and passport stamp addicts find Pokémon Go appealing. The reality is a bit more depressing.
Crypto folk will not like how much personal information you have to put in to get set up. Not just an email, but also your phone number and a one-time passcode.
The app and I disagreed at times about whether I was within the required scope of the sites I visited. While the Mahanakhon NFT was obtained without much fuss, I somehow obtained the NFT for Pattaya City and Phuket even though I didn’t visit any.
The idea is that you “earn” while traveling by getting discounts depending on how many NFTs you get. In many cases, getting the offer requires buying something else, such as getting two free pieces of chicken if you spend more than 1,000 Thai baht ($29) at a restaurant – a tall order in a country where You can have good food. a fifth of it.
In fact, many of the offers didn’t seem to be exclusive to the NFT app at all and were applicable without the app.
Now, apparently – although it didn’t say so on the poster – the game was only supposed to run until the end of April, so maybe all the good offers are gone; I can’t be sure.
But the biggest question for me was how to get NFTs out of the app. They appear to be on the parent chain of Thailand-based cryptocurrency platform Bitcube. As far as I can tell, transferring them required creating a Bitcube account, which in turn required a Thai phone number to get a one-time passcode.
Overall it needed some improvement, but I like the concept of being able to collect POAPs for places I’ve visited as a tourist. The discount was cheesy but not really necessary: if you actually found an NFT corresponding to the place you visited, collecting would be enough to do.
A new, global version would be nice please.
other stuff
– God Unrestricted Unveiled A new roadmap on 23 May. Its plans include a few new game modes, a creator program, a soft launch for mobile, and new card sets.
Blockchain gaming platform Gala Games will launch a Web3 poker platform with PokerGeo, with a beta slated for release in June.
Game retailer GameStop will distribute Telos-based games on GameStop Player, its upcoming Web3 gaming launchpad.
– Gaming metaverse Star Atlas launches the latest version of its showroom on June 1 with new flyable ships, single-player ground racing and an updated dogfighting arena.
Web3 game publisher Fenix Games has teamed up with Immutable Platform to help game studios “curate, mentor and publish best-in-class live services for the Immutable ecosystem of games.”
Nike’s NFTs will begin to be included in EA Sports games, according to a June 1 statement from the company. No word yet on which title.
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Grand Theft Auto VI Crypto Rumors
Rumors that the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI will include cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are once again fueling speculation among fans.
The posts shared on Twitter suggest that GTA 6 will be a play-to-earn game and that in-game items such as cars and weapons will be NFTs.
Rockstar Games, the makers of GTA, have yet to weigh in on whether there is any truth to these claims, but it seems there is little concrete evidence to support the rumours.
The company cracked down on the use of crypto in GTA last November and sent cease-and-desist letters to companies running public servers with blockchain integration – a blow to many game makers who had built their games on the platform.
Given that GTA 5, released in 2015, has sold over 180 million copies and generated $8 billion in revenue, it seems unlikely that Rockstar will drastically alter the franchise’s successful formula, with its latest installment coming next year or so. expected to come. 2025.
Sure, there may be a crypto element, but not necessarily the one the crypto bros want. Game Rant suggests that Rockstar Games is more likely to use crypto as the butt of its in-game jokes.
Doctor Who joins the Top Gear sandbox
sci-fi series am doctor and the British Motoring Show top GearBoth popular BBC franchises will enter the metaverse through The Sandbox after announcing a collaboration with the virtual world platform.
The partnership with Web3 company Reality+ is set to launch the space later this year.
Nicky Sheard, President of Brand and Licensing with BBC Studios, believes that while the metaverse is still in its infancy, it could shape how we consume and experience entertainment in the future.
“I look forward to seeing how fans interact with our brands in this space. This project is part of BBC Studios’ wider ambitious plans to grow our brand into new categories, with innovative technology and platforms driving its an integral part,” she said.
BBC Studios, a commercial production company under the BBC umbrella, will join 400 other entertainment brands The Sandbox has worked with, including Warner Music Group, Ubisoft, Gucci, The Walking Dead and Adidas.
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Crypto winter can take a toll on hodlers’ mental health
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STEPN integrates Apple Pay for its NFTs
Move-to-Earn app STEPN is making it easier to buy NFTs for your games by adding an in-app Apple Pay payment option.
Users will be able to buy Spark Credits using fiat, with ten Spark Credits being equal to 1 USDC, which can be used to buy NFTs.
“This eliminates the need to connect a separate crypto wallet and streamlines the payment process, making it easier than ever for our community to access our offerings,” STEPN Said on medium.
The catch is that buying sneakers with fiat will be more expensive, which STEPN attributes to “taxation” on each in-app purchase.
Onboarding has long been a challenge for the widespread adoption of Web3 games, and STEPN is no exception. Its onboarding process is cumbersome, and users have to buy a sneaker NFT — figuring out which one works best for you — from a marketplace and transferring it to the in-wallet app.
But the company may be more in the works when it comes to making onboarding easier.
It added, “Our integration with Apple Pay is just the beginning of our vision of making Web3 technology accessible to all.”
Battle Of The Titans Dev Competition Is Back For A Second Season
MatchboxDAO is Bring in Its Battle of Titans web3 racing game is back for a second season this week.
Beginning June 4th, dev teams from more than 60 Web3 companies, including Immutable, StarkNet and Phantom, will compete in a fully on-chain Mario Kart-style game.
Each car is a smart contract that must be programmed to reach the end of the track while factoring in attacking and defending against other players using bananas, shells and shields.
The first edition of the game in January featured teams from Ledger, Polygon, Near, Yield Guild Games and others, with a dev team from Uniswap emerging as the winner.
The new season will also add a community component where viewers will be able to vote for their favorite team.
read this also
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Why join the Blockchain Gaming Guild? Have fun, profit and create better games
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Inside the Iranian bitcoin mining industry
Captain Tsubasa Web3 Game Launches Governance Token
Captain Tsubasa – Rivals, a football game based on the popular manga Captain Tsubasa, has launched a governance token.
Web3 companies Thirdverse Group and Blocksmith & Co launched the game in January. Players can train characters from the manga and play against each other in matches.
Game producer Shun Fujiyoshi, who is currently the head of BLOCKSMITH & Co, said that various mechanisms are in place to maintain the value of utility tokens.
“These measures include in-game consumption points and mechanisms to control price fluctuations due to speculative trading,” he said in a statement.
Created by Yoichi Takahashi in 1981, 70 million copies of the original Captain Tsubasa manga have been sold in Japan alone. It has been translated into more than 20 languages.
Illuvium Raises Additional $10M in Funding
Crypto venture firm Framework Ventures has invested $10 million in gaming studio Illuvium, which will be used to accelerate the development of the Illuvium universe.
Australia-based Illuvium said the new funding will give it a comfortable runway through its launch into open beta and beyond.
It is planning an upcoming open beta featuring its City Builder Zero, open-world monster hunter overworld, and Auto Battler Arena.
The company had earlier raised $5 million in a Framework Ventures-backed seed round in March 2021. It raised $72 million during the sale of NFT Land in June last year.
Hot Take: Collecting NFTs for a Small Piece of Thai Chicken
In this edition, I caught a Web3 project in the wild.
The line for tickets to go up the Mahanakhon, Thailand’s tallest skyscraper, a poster on one side next to an advertisement for coffee and an emergency defibrillator caught my attention: Amazing Thailand NFT Season 2. Travel to earn amazing Expat NFTs.
Easily convinced, I downloaded the app.
In mid-April this year, the Tourism Administration of Thailand (TAT) launched the second round of NFTs for the NFT tourism project it is piloting. Using an app called YAK, tourists can check in at various locations across the country and receive travel NFTs in return.
Backpackers and passport stamp addicts find Pokémon Go appealing. The reality is a bit more depressing.
Crypto folk will not like how much personal information you have to put in to get set up. Not just an email, but also your phone number and a one-time passcode.
The app and I disagreed at times about whether I was within the required scope of the sites I visited. While the Mahanakhon NFT was obtained without much fuss, I somehow obtained the NFT for Pattaya City and Phuket even though I didn’t visit any.
The idea is that you “earn” while traveling by getting discounts depending on how many NFTs you get. In many cases, getting the offer requires buying something else, such as getting two free pieces of chicken if you spend more than 1,000 Thai baht ($29) at a restaurant – a tall order in a country where You can have good food. a fifth of it.
In fact, many of the offers didn’t seem to be exclusive to the NFT app at all and were applicable without the app.
Now, apparently – although it didn’t say so on the poster – the game was only supposed to run until the end of April, so maybe all the good offers are gone; I can’t be sure.
But the biggest question for me was how to get NFTs out of the app. They appear to be on the parent chain of Thailand-based cryptocurrency platform Bitcube. As far as I can tell, transferring them required creating a Bitcube account, which in turn required a Thai phone number to get a one-time passcode.
Overall it needed some improvement, but I like the concept of being able to collect POAPs for places I’ve visited as a tourist. The discount was cheesy but not really necessary: if you actually found an NFT corresponding to the place you visited, collecting would be enough to do.
A new, global version would be nice please.
other stuff
– God Unrestricted Unveiled A new roadmap on 23 May. Its plans include a few new game modes, a creator program, a soft launch for mobile, and new card sets.
Blockchain gaming platform Gala Games will launch a Web3 poker platform with PokerGeo, with a beta slated for release in June.
Game retailer GameStop will distribute Telos-based games on GameStop Player, its upcoming Web3 gaming launchpad.
– Gaming metaverse Star Atlas launches the latest version of its showroom on June 1 with new flyable ships, single-player ground racing and an updated dogfighting arena.
Web3 game publisher Fenix Games has teamed up with Immutable Platform to help game studios “curate, mentor and publish best-in-class live services for the Immutable ecosystem of games.”
Nike’s NFTs will begin to be included in EA Sports games, according to a June 1 statement from the company. No word yet on which title.
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