Immutable teases ‘multibillion dollar’ collab that could be its game with Ubisoft
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Immutable co-founder Robbie Ferguson wrote on Tuesday morning: “Tomorrow we announce the end result of a multibillion greenback partnership that’s been within the works for two+ years.”
Whereas we didn’t hear something from Immutable by publication time, it could possibly be about their recreation with Ubisoft.
Immutable’s partnership with Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovation Lab was first introduced in November 2023.
Throughout an on-record interview on the Sport Builders Convention in March, Immutable Chief Studio Officer Justin Hulog instructed Blockworks that he has been “engaged on co-developing a recreation with Ubisoft that we’re going to announce subsequent month” for the previous two and a half years. He added that “it’s one the place we’ve actually labored with their dev crew to take the perfect of their learnings round TCGs.”
“Gods Unchained has been working for 4 years, in order that’s been actually serving to to mix these two learnings collectively,” Hulog mentioned.
Whereas extra particular particulars in regards to the new recreation haven’t but been made public, it’ll seemingly have blockchain components and should use Immutable’s zkEVM, which Immutable is main recreation builders towards nowadays over its Immutable X chain.
Ubisoft is the studio behind the Murderer’s Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy recreation franchises, to call a couple of. The studio beforehand launched Champions Ways: Grimoria Chronicles utilizing the Oasys blockchain again in October 2024.
“I imagine, actually, that we must always keep chain-agnostic,” Ubisoft’s Innovation Lab VP Nicolas Pouard mentioned throughout a panel moderated by Blockworks in the course of the Sport Builders Convention. Pouard didn’t instantly reply to Blockworks’ request for remark.
Earlier than Champions Ways, Ubisoft unveiled its Ubisoft Quartz NFT platform and launched NFTs on Tezos for its Tom Clancy recreation Ghost Recon: Breakpoint again in 2021.
The IMX token pumped after Ferguson’s tweet, spiking 28% from $0.46 proper earlier than the publish to $0.59 inside two hours, per CoinGecko information. IMX is up about 34% previously week.
