Line’s US-based web3 enterprise, Line Subsequent, is partnering up with Sega to develop a blockchain recreation utilizing certainly one of Sega’s basic recreation IPs, which is as-yet unannounced.
As a part of its plans to make web3 gaming mainstream, Line Subsequent will carry the sport to its native web3 recreation platform Sport Dosi, in addition to help NFT manufacturing, tokenomics and advertising and marketing. Earlier in July, Sport Dosi launched its first web3 roguelite recreation Body Arms Lady: Dream Stadium in 180 nations and it’s engaged on in-house title Undertaking GD.
“By this partnership, Sport Dosi will present web3 content material that anybody can simply take pleasure in, together with Sega followers,” mentioned Line Subsequent’s CEO Youngsu Ko.
This deal ought to be seen in mild of the headlines not too long ago surrounding Sega, primarily based on an interview in Bloomberg with co-COO Shuji Utsumi, who mentioned “The motion in play-to-earn video games is boring. What’s the purpose if video games aren’t any enjoyable?”.
Regardless of play-to-earn video games not being the identical as blockchain video games, Utsumi was reported by a number of journalists to have given web3 video games a bashing, and claimed that Sega was backing away from the trade.
As is obvious nonetheless, not solely by way of the signing with Line Subsequent, is the opposite; Sega stays open to additional involvement in web3 gaming. The Japanese recreation developer continues to be a validator for the Oasys blockchain, it’s licensing its Sangokushi Taisen IP to certainly one of Double Leap.Tokyo’s forthcoming TCG’s Battle of Three Kingdoms and is presently working with different unannounced builders.
The truth is, Utsumi expresses a hopeful outlook on the ability of blockchain, saying “For almost all of individuals within the online game trade, what blockchain advocates say might sound a bit excessive, however that’s how the primary penguin has at all times been (…) We should always by no means underestimate them”.
