Following its current partnership announcement with Aptos, NPIXEL has adopted up with the title announcement for its first web3 MMORPG. For NPIXEL, the sport is the primary of its sort, being an already well-established AAA studio primarily based out of South Korea.
The sport itself, known as GRAN SAGA: UNLIMITED, shall be constructed on high of the Aptos community and can boast all the benefits of METAPIXEL’s web3 ecosystem.
Leveraging METAPIXEL’s ecosystem, gamers would have the ability to earn a spread of in-game sources and gear, having provable possession of them as minted NFTs. In flip, these NFTs can then be traded throughout Aptos Community’s numerous marketplaces.
GRAN SAGA: UNLIMITED itself shall be primarily based on its unique sequence – the cell and PC anime platform MMORPG ‘Gran Saga’. Including a Web3 title to this IP makes quite a lot of sense, contemplating its reputation amongst gamers in Korea and Japan since its launch in 2021 regionally, and globally the 12 months after.
In whole, Gran Saga has garnered over 4 million downloads since then, making it one of many top-performing titles in cell app shops in Korea.
This scale of customers makes Aptos a really perfect selection for the studio, given its reportedly ‘subsecond’ latency, that means gamers can have a constantly high-quality gaming expertise, with all the perks of web3 coming with it.
At this stage, the sport is present process alpha testing, with the intention of a world launch by the second quarter of 2023.