Kakao’s Metabora Joins Gaming Giants Ubisoft, Sega on Oasys Chain

The collaboration goals to “create and ship superior blockchain video games to extra customers,” in line with an announcement launched by Oasys on Wednesday. It comes as a part of Oasys’ “Dragon Replace” plan for 2024, which focuses on increasing interoperability, rising the ecosystem, and creating high quality gaming content material.

“We’re delighted to accomplice with Metabora SG, an organization that absolutely shares our imaginative and prescient of revolutionizing the gaming trade via the usage of blockchain know-how,” stated Dominic Jang, Head of Enterprise Growth and Head of Korea at Oasys, in a launch.

Kakao Video games is understood for publishing video games like Black Desert Line and PUBG (in South Korea). Mother or father firm Kakao is probably finest identified for KakaoTalk, a well-liked free chat service within the nation. Metabora has showcased a variety of blockchain video games, together with puzzler Talent Blitz, golf recreation Birdie Shot, and role-playing recreation ArcheStar.

Jang said that the partnership “marks one other necessary milestone for additional enterprise growth” in South Korea. Oasys additionally hopes to leverage its present community in Japan to help Metabora SG’s growth into that nation.

Oasys has gained steam in latest months because the community of selection for conventional online game giants who’re increasing into the Web3 world. Murderer’s Creed recreation writer Ubisoft is at the moment constructing its first unique blockchain recreation, Champions Ways: Grimoria Chronicles, on Oasys. Ubisoft launched a free Ethereum NFT assortment in December that ties into the sport.

Moreover, Sega is working with Japanese studio Double Leap.Tokyo to convey a few of its IP to Web3 gaming through Oasys, beginning with a Battle of the Three Kingdoms recreation. In the meantime, gaming large Bandai Namco (Pac-Man, Tekken) launched an experimental AI-driven recreation on the chain final 12 months.

Most lately, Oasys introduced that South Korean cellular recreation writer Com2uS will convey video games from its XPLA ecosystem over to Oasys. The information preceded a soar within the worth of the OAS token to a brand new all-time excessive worth above $0.14 on February 13, although it has since settled to $0.12 as of this writing, per CoinGecko.

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