Square Enix Teams With Elixir to Bring Web3 Games to Mainstream Audiences

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Japanese sport writer Sq. Enix—creator of the smash Remaining Fantasy collection—introduced that it’s working with PC gaming platform Elixir with the goal of furthering Web3 sport adoption.

Elixir presents each conventional and Web3 video video games on its platform and just lately built-in the favored Epic Video games Retailer library onto its platform. With Sq. Enix onboard, Elixir hopes to additional merge the now-distinct worlds of Web2 and Web3 gaming.

“This partnership with Elixir Video games represents one more step for Sq. Enix to discover the promise of Web3-decentralized gaming,” mentioned Sq. Enix Director of Enterprise Growth Hidaki Uehera, in an announcement.

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Whereas little has been revealed about how Elixir will work with Sq. Enix, Elixir CEO Carlos Roldan believes it should assist deliver Web3 video games to mainstream audiences.

“This partnership brings us nearer to Web3 gaming mass adoption,” he mentioned in an announcement. “Our crew is extremely excited to deliver our expertise to work, and we foresee Elixir customers taking part in Web2 and Web3 video games alike with out distinction.”

“2023 has already seen extra business leaders enter the house with impactful tasks, and we anticipate to see extra because the 12 months progresses,” Roldan added. “We’ve put all efforts to make sure we’re prepared for scalability.”

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Sq. Enix has been outspoken concerning the potential for Web3 gaming for years, even main an funding spherical into metaverse sport The Sandbox in 2020.

President Yosuke Matsuda wrote in early 2022 that such crypto sport economies are a brand new expertise that’s “right here to remain.” Matsuda beforehand mentioned that in Sq. Enix’s view, 2021 was “12 months One” for NFTs. And in late 2022, Sq. Enix introduced its first Web3 sport, Symbiogenesis, which can leverage Ethereum scaling community Polygon for its NFT components.

Elixir has added quite a lot of Web3 video games to its launcher, providing a spread of titles throughout Solana, BNB Chain, Ethereum, and Polygon—like MMORPG World Everlasting On-line, quirky card battlers like Raini: Lords of Mild and Elemental Raiders, and RPGs like Chronos and Bornless, to call a couple of.