Mobile publisher and developer Azur Games continues to expand into the gaming blockchain market. The company announced the launch of a new direction within its walls. It will publish and support gaming teams that want to take up NFT gaming.

Last year, Axie Infinity became a phenomenon in the NFT games market. By August 2021, the volume of trading operations within the game reached $848.18 million. But in the future, the project was overwhelmed by a wave of crises, because of which the developers had to revise the original concept. We have prepared an analysis of the main problems of the Axie Infinity gaming economy based on The Verge publication.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint goes down in history. Ubisoft has no plans to develop the project, as well as to make new NFT content for it.

The Vietnamese Axie Infinity has a new achievement. Total in-game sales exceeded $4 billion. This is more than any other NFT project to date.

Owners of a store with indie games itch.io opposed the NFT. According to the management of the portal, non—interchangeable tokens are fraud, and the companies supporting them think exclusively about their own profits.

Newzoo spoke about five trends that can be observed in the market of metaverses, blockchain games and NFT in 2022. Analysts believe that gamers will gradually adopt these technologies, and major brands will actively buy up virtual land.The Sandbox

The Sandbox platform, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, together with the venture firm Brinc launched an accelerator for developers of metaverse projects. Promises to invest a total of $50 million in participants. That’s just for the participation itself, you have to pay — $ 50 thousand for each startup.

A little more than a month ago, Gismart projects overcame the milestone of a billion total downloads. A few days ago, a Belarusian-British publisher announced that in honor of this event, he released the first NFT collection.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has released a report “Cryptocurrencies: Trends, risks, measures“. It proposes to prohibit both any operations with cryptocurrency and mining as such.

As one of the advantages of gaming NFT, the concept of transferring such items between different titles is often mentioned. Most often, people who are far from the industry talk about this. Developer and gaming consultant Rami Ismail (Rami Ismail), using the example of creating a simple playing cube, explained why such an idea is basically doomed to failure.

The story about the development of the Doom port for the 3DO console has begun to gain popularity again on the web. The person who bought the rights was sure that it was enough to simply copy the files from the PC version, and new weapons could be added simply in the form of pictures. Now this story is being compared to people’s fantasies about transferring NFT items between different games.

In South Korea, they continue to strengthen control over mobile stores. Now the authorities want Apple and Google to block games in their app stores in the country that work according to the play-to-earn model (“play to earn”).

The concepts of the metaverse and Web3 are among the most discussed in 2021. However, Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, does not share the hype. In his opinion, both ideas are simply well promoted.

Another company decided to engage in blockchain games. Next up is the mobile publisher and developer Jam City. The creators of Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery announced the launch of the corresponding division and announced the first NFT game.

The Blockchain Game Alliance coalition has prepared a detailed report on NFT games. In particular, she spoke about the sales of game tokens, the size of the audience of such titles, as well as about the main advantages and problems of the segment.

Two days ago, GSC Game World studio announced that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will have its own metaverse with NFT. However, a barrage of criticism from the gaming community forced the company to abandon this idea.

French Voodoo has decided to pay more attention to mobile blockchain games. She announced that next year she will invest $200 million in such projects. The money will go both to finance third-party teams and to create internal studios.

Last week, Ubisoft announced Quartz, a platform where gamers can trade “NFT cosmetics” for the company’s AAA titles. The first items have already appeared on the site, but users are not ready to pay a lot for them. The largest amount they agree to give is ꜩ14 ($65.56).

GSC Game World has announced a collaboration with the DMarket platform to create its own metaverse. In the upcoming shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl, NFTs will appear, and token holders will be able to become NPCs inside the game itself.The project was named S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Metaverse.