‘Battle of the Three Kingdoms’ Oasys Game Based on Sega IP Launching Next Week

A crypto-fueled twist on the Sega IP Sangokushi Taisen (aka Battle of the Three Kingdoms) is about to launch subsequent week, developer Double Leap Tokyo introduced on Friday. The approaching sport launch comes virtually two years after the studio revealed that it was growing the sport below license from Sega.

Launching on Wednesday, April 30, the strategic card battler KAI: Battle of the Three Kingdoms shall be accessible in early entry on PC and cell. Previous to this launch, a 3 hour PC browser-only “load take a look at” will happen on Monday, April 28. Participant knowledge from the transient load take a look at won’t carry over to the totally launched sport.

Pre-registrations for the sport went reside in early March, with the builders claiming that over 1,000,000 folks have registered curiosity up to now.

KAI: Battle of Three Kingdoms is a “trendy reimagining” of Sega’s Sangokushi Taisen arcade sequence that first debuted in 2005. The sport shall be accessible in English, Japanese, and Conventional Chinese language languages.

Constructed on the Oasys gaming blockchain, particular playing cards known as “Woke up Warlords” shall be minted as NFTs, permitting gamers to freely commerce the playing cards on the open market. These playing cards are set to be the “central focus” of the sport, the litepaper says, with every card possessing distinctive expertise that shall be key for gameplay technique.

The litepaper additionally outlines plans for a SGC token that shall be used to acquire card packs, earned by means of leaderboard placement, and staked to earn factors—which can be utilized for “endgame options,” corresponding to championship occasions and match mode.

Forward of the early entry launch, a Telegram sport was launched for gamers to have interaction with the IP and doubtlessly win rewards forward of the rollout. Nevertheless, within the wake of Telegram going unique with The Open Community (TON), the expertise was shut down in February.

Gaming large Sega has been dipping its toes into crypto by way of the licensing of IP, with each Sangokushi Taisen on Oasys and extra lately Code of Joker for the Sui community.

“Blockchain gaming remains to be an unknown world for us,” Sega’s Shuji Utsumi, then co-COO, defined in a 2023 interview. “I’m trying ahead to seeing how NFTs can authentically seize the sensation of proudly owning a card,” he added, referencing the Three Kingdoms sport in growth.

However you in all probability received’t see Sonic the Hedgehog and different Sega heavyweights making the leap to blockchain anytime quickly. In 2023, Utsumi additionally stated that the gaming large wouldn’t license its largest franchises for blockchain spinoffs, fearing it might devalue the model.

Edited by Andrew Hayward