Ubisoft Reveals Plans for ‘Captain Laserhawk’ Ethereum Game NFT Mint

Gaming big Ubisoft is about to launch a ten,000 piece NFT assortment on Ethereum scaling community Arbitrum within the coming weeks through the Magic Eden market. These NFTs will enable holders to play the upcoming top-down shooter Captain Laserhawk: The G.A.M.E. early.

Set in a fascist dystopian world impressed by the Netflix collection “Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix”—which itself is impressed by Ubisoft’s Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon sport—the aggressive multiplayer sport guarantees to incorporate iconic characters from Murderer’s Creed, Rayman, and Past Good & Evil.

Minted on Ethereum layer-2 scaling community Arbitrum, the brand new Niji Warrior ID NFTs will grant early entry to the top-down shooter, allow participation within the sport’s governance mannequin, and observe participant progress. As a participant’s rating will increase, the NFT evolves, unlocking new perks and rising their governance affect. Holders may even be capable of earn rewards and unlock user-generated content material—although how precisely this can work has but to be detailed.

“By the mixing of Web3, we’re empowering our neighborhood to not solely play however form the way forward for the sport,” Didier Genevois, Web3 Govt Producer at Ubisoft, mentioned in a launch. “It’s about making a collaborative ecosystem the place gamers’ choices and creations instantly affect the sport’s evolution, making the expertise actually their very own.”

This collaboration additionally marks the beginning of Arbitrum assist on the Magic Eden NFT market. Beforehand, Magic Eden has supported Solana, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, and Base tasks.

Introduced by Ubisoft in August, Captain Laserhawk: The G.A.M.E. was described as a “transmedia expertise” with the “first activation and core” of the undertaking to be constructed on Arbitrum. It was additionally revealed that the story might be influenced and molded by the neighborhood by means of Web3 governance—customers acquire entry to this function through the soon-to-mint Niji Warrior ID.

This announcement comes after a closed beta interval in late August, although there may be sparse footage on-line. Discord customers declare that it is because beta contributors signed an NDA to not leak images, movies, or data. From the restricted footage discovered on Twitter, the sport appears to be like vibrant and stuffed with tight choke factors the place gamers will battle it out.

The brand new 10,000 piece NFT assortment is about to mint within the coming weeks, with 1000’s of potential minters already gaining allowlist spots by partaking within the beta and finishing Discord challenges. The ID mint is the final roadmap milestone earlier than the sport’s launch, that means that Captain Laserhawk: The G.A.M.E. should not be far off.

Captain Laserhawk: The G.A.M.E. is Ubisoft’s second full-fledged blockchain sport following Champions Techniques: Grimoria Chronicles, which is constructed on the Oasys community and has minted NFTs on Ethereum as properly. Champions Techniques just lately held a “technical beta” take a look at forward of its forthcoming public launch.

The writer behind Murderer’s Creed and Simply Dance has been constructing and investing within the crypto world for years now, nevertheless, and launched in-game NFTs for its Ghost Recon: Breakpoint sport on Tezos in late 2021.

Edited by Andrew Hayward