Japanese game developer Square Enix, creator of titles like “Final Fantasy” and “Kingdom Hearts,” has set the release date for “Symbiogenesis,” the first Web3 game and experience it will offer its players.
symbiogenesis is a collectible digital art project, the first created by Square Enix, consisting of 10.000 NFT characters.
As this medium reported a year ago, Square Enix presented symbiogenesis as your first Web3 experience, built from the ground up for fans of the next generation of the decentralized web.
Recently, the company announced the release date of this Web3 game, stating that it will be available next December 21. Previously, Square Enix had announced that symbiogenesis It would be available in the spring of this year, but had not given a specific date for its release.
In addition to revealing the release date of symbiogenesis, Square Enix also started an auction period in which players and interested parties can bid on the first 500 NFT characters from the Web3 game. This NFT auction period was divided into three waves, starting on November 27. The auction of NFT characters symbiogenesis ends on December 3rd.
According to the company, users who bid on these NFTs could receive others for free. Square Enix had announced that it would mint free NFTs for players who were part of its community on Discord, and who actively participated in the process.
Players who win these NFTs will be able to use them as in-game characters and as digital collectibles, and will also be able to set them as profile pictures (PFP) on their social networks.
With this experience, the Japanese gaming giant wants to offer its community of players a gateway to the blockchain and non-fungible tokens, while promoting the use and adoption of these technological innovations in the world of gaming. .
Yosuke Matsuda, CEO of Square Enix, said in a letter last year, that blockchain technology and NFTs are disruptive technologies that have been implemented in various fields and that have “the potential to create new forms of gaming content”. Matsuda also identified these technological innovations as new domains worth focusing some of its resources and investments on.
symbiogenesis is a Web3 game that is based on the Ethereum scalability network, Polygon Network.
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