
Brendan Greene, the creator of PUBG, said his upcoming metaverse may integrate blockchain technology, but doesn’t have any plans for NFTs.
Brendan Greene, creator of the online battle royale shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), unveiled plans to create a new generation of a gameplay-focused metaverse called Artemis.
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are unlikely to make an appearance.
Speaking to IGN on Jan. 4, Greene said he’s “not even thinking about” including NFTs in the project, which is currently under development at his game studio PlayerUnkown Productions.
A Nokia patent application shows that the company may be moving into digital asset encryption.
Finnish telecom company Nokia filed for a patent on a “device, method and computer program” that can encrypt digital assets.
On Dec. 23, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), patent office of the People’s Republic of China, disclosed that Nokia Technologies had applied for the digital asset encryption patent.
According to English translations of the application, the patent is for a device and a program with a component that encrypts digital assets.
Translation of filing CN 119155674 A by Nokia Technologies. Source: CNIPA
The French gaming company developed the title in partnership with the Arbitrum Foundation.
The Arbitrum Foundation and French gaming giant Ubisoft have announced Dec. 18 as the official launch date for “Captain Laserhawk: The G.A.M.E.” a web3-enabled top-down shooter.
The game is set in the Ubisoft gaming universe and features a cast of characters from titles including Far Cry: Blood Dragon, Rayman, Assassin’s Creed, Beyond Good and Evil, The Crew, Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell and Watch Dogs.
Captain Laserhawk’s gameplay combines classic top-down shooter mechanics with competitive leaderboards and Web3 features. Story-wise, it’s a media spinoff of the 2023 Netflix-based television show “Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix.” The title is among the slate of Ubisoft games exploring Web3, blockchain, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
The co-creator of Meta’s ill-fated crypto payment project Libra says a political hit job stymied their efforts. David Marcus says Libra, later renamed Diem, would have “solved global payments at scale.” The tech executive notes his team spent months briefing “key regulators” in the US and abroad prior to announcing the project in June 2019 alongside […]
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Traverse founder Amos Thomas believes stories are the foundation of everything, and that humanity must do everything in its power to protect them.
Human stories and knowledge are the lifeblood of civilization and must protected at all costs in the age of artificial intelligence, according to Tracverse founder Amos Thomas.
Since their mainstream debut roughly two years ago, generative artificial intelligence solutions such as large language models (LLMs) have come under fierce criticism for reportedly sucking up the knowledge and creative outputs of humans, without credit or compensation, to train their algorithms.
The solution to this major issue lies in minting humanity’s stories on the blockchain, says Thomas.