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Blockchain-based games platform says it has chosen Amazon Web Services to support for successful deal closures. Immutable, a web3 game development platform, is expanding its strategic partnerships list to accelerate mainstream adoption of video games built on the Ethereum blockchain. In a blog post on Oct. 11, the Sydney-based firm said it partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make it easier for game developers to launch products on blockchain networks. “AWS is supercharging Immutable’s development by onboarding new game studios, and providing them with resources through our flagship AWS Activate startup program and AWS’s ISV Accelerate Program, which give them the tools to accelerate their global launch.” John Kearney, head of startups at AWS, Australia and New Zealand With AWS, Immutable wants to scale its upcoming offerings, such as Immutable zkEVM, a gaming chain built on Ethereum (ETH) that allows game developers to introduce customized digital owne...

Sega is still reportedly licensing its lesser-known properties out for NFTs and blockchain games, but its best ones are being kept close. Sega co-COO yawns at P2E games The co-chief operating officer of Sega has called play-to-earn games “ boring ” amid the firm’s retreat from franchising some of its hottest properties to the blockchain gaming space. Bloomberg reported on July 6 that Shuji Utsumi, the co-COO of the gaming company behind Sonic The Hedgehog, said Sega would shelve plans to develop blockchain games for now. Third-party blockchain gaming projects would also not get access to Sega’s biggest franchises, with Utsumi adding: “The action in play-to-earn games is boring , what’s the point if games are no fun?” However, some of the less-known Sega titles will still get licensed for runs in nonfungible token (NFT) collections, its lesser franchises are getting blockchain games slated for announcements later this year and Sega is still pumping millions into related projects. Br...

The total NFT market trading volume in Q1 hit $4.7 billion, more than doubling the previous quarter, while Square Enix dropped Final Fantasy trading cards that can't actually be traded, yet. Oddly, following news of a New York Grand Jury voting to indict former president Donald Trump on March 30, the floor price for the officially licensed Trump Digital Trading Cards NFT project pumped. According to data from OpenSea, NFT traders were seemingly spurred into action by the announcement, with the floor price moving from 0.46 Ether (ETH) or $835 at current prices, to as high as 0.6 ETH ($1090) on the same day. Trump Digital Trading Cards floor price. Source: OpenSea It is worth noting that when the project launched in December, it offered exclusive one-on-one experiences to certain NFT hodlers, such as private golf sessions, dinners and conversations with Trump. Given the indict ment news, it could potentially have an impact on the forty-fifth's potential to deliver on such exper...

YouTube boxer Logan Paul, who was spearheading the CryptoZoo NFT project, has accused Coffeezilla of publishing “defamation” about him and the project. YouTuber Logan Paul has threatened to sue fellow YouTuber and internet detective Coffeezilla for defamation after he accused Paul’s CryptoZoo nonfungible token (NFT) project of being a “scam.” The two have been battling back and forth on both social media and YouTube videos ever since Dec. 17, when Stephen Findeisen — also known as Coffeezilla — launched the first of a three-part video series attacking CryptoZoo and Paul, who was the face of the project. “CryptoZoo was supposed to be a fun Blockchain game that can earn you money [...] but millions of dollars of investor money later, things are still broken,” he said. In his most recent response, Logan Paul published a YouTube video on Jan. 4 accusing the internet detective of having “led the charge to drive and monetize a narrative telling millions of people that I’m a fraud or I tried...