‘Metal Gear Solid’ Game Maker Konami Launching Avalanche NFT Platform
Konami Digital Leisure—the Japanese gaming large behind franchises like Metallic Gear Stable, Silent Hill, and Castlevania—introduced Thursday that it’s going to launch an NFT platform known as Resella on the Avalanche blockchain.
The infrastructure platform goals to make it simpler for corporations to combine blockchain know-how and subject NFTs, each for video games and different kinds of functions. Based on Konami, Resella eliminates the necessity for customers to open an exterior crypto pockets or deal with cryptocurrency in any respect.
The corporate touted Resella’s “user-friendly market expertise” in a press launch, and mentioned it is going to enable transactions in Japanese yen for home customers, with plans to accommodate international customers as nicely. Powered by Avalanche’s know-how, Resella is not going to cost customers gasoline charges to transact with its tech.
“By democratizing entry to Web3-related applied sciences, Konami Digital Leisure goals to foster an inclusive surroundings whereby companies throughout varied sectors can harness the potential of blockchain innovation,” the discharge acknowledged.
Konami envisions Resella enabling varied digital experiences, akin to utilizing in-game NFTs as occasion tickets or unlocking unique content material throughout totally different platforms. Resella will likely be constructed on an Avalanche subnet, or a devoted occasion of the community, offering Konami with extra customization options and different potential advantages in comparison with the mainnet.
A number of different main sport publishers have additionally been constructing within the blockchain area. Murderer’s Creed maker Ubisoft, for instance, is ready to publish its first authentic sport Champions Ways: Grimoria Chronicles this yr on the Oasys blockchain, and has launched different tasks and collaborated with varied chains over the previous few years.
In the meantime, Closing Fantasy creator Sq. Enix has an Ethereum-based narrative sport known as Symbiogenesis that launched in late 2023 and has pursued different efforts within the trade, plus Sega has introduced a few of its properties into Web3 via collaborations.
Editor’s word: This text was written with the help of AI. Edited and fact-checked by Andrew Hayward.
