‘Final Fantasy’ Maker Square Enix Teams With Animoca for Ethereum NFT Game

Sq. Enix, the online game large behind the Ultimate Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts franchises, introduced Monday that it has signed a collaboration settlement with distinguished metaverse funding agency and crypto recreation writer Animoca Manufacturers.

The corporations will work collectively to increase the sport writer’s Ethereum NFT recreation Symbiogenesis to a broader international viewers. Particularly, Animoca’s newly established subsidiary, Animoca Manufacturers Japan, will work with Sq. Enix on mixed advertising efforts, together with collaborations with a number of the 400+ tasks in Animoca’s portfolio.

Launched in December, Symbiogenesis is a story journey recreation constructed round 10,000 Ethereum NFT characters, in addition to many extra in-game NFTs minted on Ethereum scaling community Polygon. The PC-based recreation takes place on a “floating continent” on a future, polluted Earth, the place the remaining people struggle to outlive as a fantastical dragon assaults.

Symbiogenesis can be featured on Animoca Manufacturers Japan’s upcoming NFT launchpad, which was introduced earlier this month and is anticipated to launch this summer season with assist for each Ethereum and Polygon.

“We’re very enthusiastic about this initiative and look ahead to working with Animoca Manufacturers Japan to carry the Web3 expertise to a wider viewers in an much more strategic means,” stated Symbiogenesis producer Naoyuki Tamate, in a launch.

Sq. Enix has already teamed up with an Animoca firm: The writer introduced in 2022 that it’ll carry its Dungeon Siege franchise to The Sandbox, an Ethereum metaverse recreation owned by Animoca Manufacturers. However that tie-up goes again even additional, as Sq. Enix led a 2020 funding spherical within the NFT recreation challenge.

The truth is, Sq. Enix has made many strikes round NFT and blockchain lately. It beforehand launched Ultimate Fantasy VII NFTs tied to collectible motion figures by way of the Efinity community on Polygon again in 2022, and invested in Zebedee, a Bitcoin-centric gaming and funds platform tied to play-to-earn video games.

Only in the near past, Sq. Enix introduced separate investments in a pair of crypto-native PC gaming launcher apps, HyperPlay and Elixir Video games, and has launched Symbiogenesis by way of HyperPlay.

Editor’s observe: This text was written with the help of AI. Edited and fact-checked by Andrew Hayward.