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Animoca Brands and Manga Productions Enters Partnership

Animoca Brands and Manga Productions Partnership will Develop Web3 Projects

Animoca Brands continues to with its global expansion region the MENA region where it inks an MOU with Saudi-based Manga Productions to develop and promote Web3 and blockchain projects in the region.

Animoca Brands, a company that makes Web3 and blockchain games, is expanding to the MENA region and working with Manga Productions to do so. Manga Productions is a Saudi entertainment company under Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman’s Misk Foundation. Both companies signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday. The goal of the partnership is to work together on Web3 projects that use Manga Productions\’ characters and content. Manga Productions is famous for its top-quality animations, comics, and super exciting games.

The third generation of the World Wide Web, called Web3, is still being built. It is becoming less centralized and more open as it grows. This evolution incorporates blockchain technologies to enable the seamless sharing of information and transactions.

Manga Productions and Animoca Brands Agreement

Manga Productions CEO, Essam Bukhary, announced an agreement between the two companies. They will collaborate on various initiatives aimed at promoting the Saudi company\’s content in the Web3 ecosystem. Moreover it will develop the local blockchain industry, and enhancing media accessibility.

Furthermore, through their partnership, Animoca Brands and Manga Productions plan to collaborate closely across several major areas. Their initial focus will be on co-creating Web3 pilot projects. They will use Animoca Brands\’ extensive ecosystem and leveraging Manga Productions\’ premium content portfolio in the Middle East.

Animoca says that their main goal has been to protect digital property rights in the gaming and open metaverses. In the meantime, Manga Productions has become one of the most important companies in the Middle East for making games, comics, and animation. The two companies plan to collaborate on a range of Web3 pilot projects. It will leverage Manga Productions\’ top-tier content portfolio across Animoca\’s extensive ecosystem.

Animoca Brands Web3 Prowess will Help Manga Productions

In order to provide local talent with education and vocational opportunities in relevant fields, Animoca has pledged to utilize its operational and industry resources. The company has initiated discussions with educational institutions in the region to create foundational courses on blockchain technology. Moreover, they are already in discussion with Saudi Universities about rolling out blockchain courses for the youth.

According to Bukhary, the collaboration signifies the potential for cross-industry partnerships in the fast-evolving entertainment and gaming sectors.

Bukhary on the Partnership

Manga Productions and Animoca Brands can create engaging and unique experiences. Besides, it will appeal to a wide audience by leveraging each other’s strengths and expertise, Bukhary said.

“We are delighted to announce our partnership with Animoca Brands and taking our IPs (intellectual properties) beyond content and into various applications and experiences.

“With this partnership, we believe that this will further develop the creative industry in the region through Web3 applications, as well as expand our portfolio within online and offline activations of IPs.”

Animoca Brands Yat Siu Remarks

Yat Siu, the co-founder and chair of Animoca, said: “We are incredibly excited to join forces with Manga Productions on this partnership to leverage our respective complementary strengths.

“This partnership is one of our first significant steps in expanding into the Middle East, one of the fastest-growing Web3 ecosystems.\” In addition, the enriched cultural heritage can adapt to various forms of virtual content.

“We look forward to bringing the various initiatives with Manga Productions to life, and we expect to see more activities in the region through investment and strategic collaboration.”

About Manga Productions

Manga Productions develop video games and comics for its Middle Eastern fanbase as well as international audience. They are actively engaged in animation movies and series which they aim to launch globally on TV channels and cinemas. One of its flagship projects in the animation side is The Journey and the anime Future’s Folktales. As for games, Manga Productions has Goul’s Cave and Dhafer The Champion.

About Animoca Brands

Animoca Brands is a renowned company in the digital entertainment, blockchain, NFT, and gamification fields. The company is known for its innovative and leadership role in these industries. It also actively invests in Web3 startups and other gaming studios.

Animoca Brands has an extensive product portfolio, which includes the REVV and SAND tokens. Moreover, it has games like The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes. Products featuring popular intellectual properties like Disney, WWE, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. The company is known for making and publishing high-quality products in many different categories.

Animoca Brands has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Bondly, Lympo, Grease Monkey Games, and Sky Mavis. Additinally, these companies operate in various areas of the digital entertainment, blockchain, NFT, and gamification industries, contributing to Animoca Brands\’ overall success.

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Sandbox Partners with ZeptoLabs

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The Sandbox Working on New Web3 Experience Thanks to Partnership with ZeptoLabs.

The Sandbox, a premier decentralized virtual gaming world under Animoca Brands, announces a partnership with ZeptoLab. ZeptoLab is a world-renowned gaming company responsible for hugely popular games. Some of the games are Cut the Rope, CATS: Crash Arena Turbo Stars, King of Thieves, and Bullet Echo, on Tuesday. Moreover, this partnership lays down a foundation for an upcoming metaverse project in Web3.

According to a statement from The Sandbox, the partnership will expand the metaverse. It will introduce new offerings, including a new space and Web3 engagement opportunities for the ZeptoLab community. The partnership will achieve this through fun experiences and digital collectibles built on the principle of true digital ownership.

ZeptoLab\’s new LAND creation will allow players to run the Om Nom Cafe in Nomville. It will also let players cater to customers in an exciting arcade management game. Additionally, this game takes inspiration from ZeptoLab\’s successful IP, which has billions of downloads globally. The game is competitive and will challenge players\’ skills.

Along with the Om Nom Cafe, ZeptoLab and The Sandbox plan to create digital collectibles, drawing inspiration from the Nommies in Cut the Rope 2 and the Ancestors in Cut the Rope: Time Travel. Additionally, they will also offer accessories and equipment to personalize avatars.

Sebastian Borget of the Sandbox on the New Partnership

“We are thrilled to welcome ZeptoLab to The Sandbox. I look forward to seeing all the creations the Cut the Rope community will build in the metaverse using collectible digital items that they can truly own,” COO and Co-founder the Sandbox Sebastian Borget.

The Sandbox, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, is one of the decentralized virtual worlds contributing to the recent surge in demand for virtual real estate.

The Sandbox embodies the concept of the metaverse as a seamless shared digital space where various worlds and heroes converge to create magic. It is a unique combination of virtual real estate and an amusement park.

The Sandbox\’s vision of empowering players to create their own experiences with both original and well-known characters and worlds has attracted over 400 partners, including Warner Music Group, Ubisoft, The Rabbids, Tony Hawk, Gucci Vault, The Walking Dead, Snoop Dogg, Adidas, Deadmau5, Steve Aoki, Richie Hawtin, The Smurfs, Care Bears, Atari, ZEPETO, and CryptoKitties.

The Sandbox metaverse provides players and creators with a decentralized and user-friendly platform. It helps them to design captivating 3D worlds and gaming experiences. It also offers a secure way to store, trade, and monetize their creations, building on The Sandbox\’s existing IP. The platform has garnered over 40 million global installs on mobile devices.

Animoca Brand\’s Leads in Web3

Animoca Brands, a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification, is committed to advancing digital property rights and helping establish the open metaverse.

Moreover, Animoca Brands\’ portfolio encompasses a wide range of products, including the REVV token and SAND token, original games such as The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes, as well as products featuring popular IPs like Disney, WWE, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E.

Animoca Brands has several subsidiary companies, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd. Some other notable is GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Animoca Brands Japan, Grease Monkey Games, Eden Games, Darewise Entertainment, Notre Game, TinyTap, Be Media, PIXELYNX, and WePlay Media.

Finally, this Web3 company boasts a rapidly expanding portfolio of over 380 Web3 investments. Some of them are Colossal, Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs, Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and more.

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Sky Mavis, Axie Infinity Homeland, The Smurfs, The Sandbox and More Updates in the Blockchain Gaming Industry

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Happy 2023!

We want to welcome our growing W3 Play community to the year 2023 by giving a full picture of the news and activities in blockchain gaming this past week. The winter holiday season is well underway, and several play and earn games are coming with their alphas, new features, NFT rewards, and updates. Also, our favorite characters from childhood, the Smurfs, have shown up in the popular blockchain game The Sandbox. And finally, we see DeGods and Y00ts migrating from Solana to Ethereum and Polygon. We will see how this decision impacts Solana and why Dust Labs took the decision to migrate. Stay with us until the end as we wrap up this week with all of the important updates in one place for you to keep up with what\’s going on in the Web 3.0 gaming space.

Weekly news highlights

Axie Infinity Launches Homeland
The Smurfs Have Arrived in the Sandbox
Illuvium Zero Demonstrates Its Alpha to the Gaming Community
Relics: A New Feature in Meta Apes
Top Two NFT Projects Migrating to Other Platforms, According to Solana

Axie Infinity Launches Homeland

Finally, the long wait of more than 3 years is over as Axie Infinity releases Homeland. This news is especially special for those who own land already, as they will play on their own for the very first time. So, the game is currently available only to the landowners who bought it for $1000 from Mavis Hub. So, now players can start their village on Lunacia and spread out their axies to gather resources and finally build their own homeland. However, the game isn’t available for those who don’t own land. So, players will have to wait a bit longer to test this brand-new Axie Infinity game.

The game requires you to build a settlement and fend off waves of monsters by defending your home. The game is in early alpha mode at the moment, and the aim is to gather feedback. So, players won’t win any rewards at this point in time. The cosmetics of the game, on the other hand, will stay with the players even after the alpha is over. If you are planning to play this new game, the land plots are available for ETH 1.09. The gameplay and graphics are very unlike those in Axie Infinity, so there’s promise in this game.

The Smurfs Have Arrived in the Sandbox

Next, we have The Smurfs\’ Society making its way into the blockchain game The Sandbox. The Smurf Society brings with it 3000 new NFTs exclusively for Voxel owners and community members. Thanks to this new partnership, the Smurf community will be able to enjoy the new era of decentralization and creativity through on-chain gaming adventures. Animoca Brands\’ Sandbox is robust in expanding its metaverse by entering into new partnerships. As of now, it has joined forces with the likes of Warner Music Group, Ubisoft, Tony Hawk, Sueco, The Rabbids, Gucci Vault, The Walking Dead, and many more.

Illuvium Zero Demonstrates Its Alpha to the Gaming Community

Illuvium releases the alpha for its land-owning and management game, Illuvium Zero. Their decision to launch the alpha is pretty fast when compared to others, as they completed their land sale just six months ago. Illuvium also put out the Illuvium Overworld beta a while ago. These updates are keeping their fans busy over the holidays. Illuvium Zero is the third game in the Illuvium series. It lets players build and manage a base while gathering and extracting resources and making blueprints. Season 0 will begin on January 6th and last for 8 weeks.

But only landowners can get this alpha, which can be bought from Illuvidex for 0.45 ETH. The game will be free to play at launch, but non-land owners will never extract tokens, or NFTs. The game is skill-based, with a lot depending on your decision-making. Also, the game requires strategic thinking at every step, from choosing where to put a building to managing resources to working on the blueprints for the Illuvial.

Relics: A New Feature in Meta Apes

We have a new feature in Meta Apes where the relics will increase the abilities and strength of the apes. Players can mint these relics as NFTs on the Meta Ape marketplace. However, each relic will require a minting fee of 50 peels. Players need to unlock these relics after completing Chapter 18. For a limited time, each relic will activate a new buff in the ape. The associated buff starts as soon as the player collects it. Meta Apes is available on both the Android and iOS marketplaces and is a free-to-play and earn MMO blockchain game. This game lets you rule the world as an ape and create a strong clan to fight and survive.

Solana See Top Two NFT Projects Migrating to other Platforms

Finally, we have Dust Labs taking the big decision to migrate its top two performing NFT projects, DeGods and Y00ts. In order to broaden their reach, both of these NFT projects are bridging off Solana onto Ethereum and Polygon. The official bridging will take place in the first quarter of this year. Rohun Vora, the creator of Y00ts and DeGods, said that the decision was made to \”explore new opportunities.\” This means that the Dust token will also be bridged onto Polygon and Ethereum. Vora also thinks that Polygon and Ethereum are the right platforms to drive the next wave of people using NFTs.

He likened the tug-of-war between different platforms to that between Netflix and other video streaming platforms. \”They’re trying to get the best IP for their streaming services because that IP is ultimately going to drive the growth on that platform.\” He continued, \”Once you get enough IP on the platform, it becomes a virtuous cycle; people want to be on Netflix because that’s the brand and the place to be.\”

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Sky Mavis, The Smurfs, The Sandbox

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Happy 2023!

Weekly news highlights

Axie Infinity Launches Homeland
The Smurfs Have Arrived in the Sandbox
Illuvium Zero Demonstrates Its Alpha to the Gaming Community
Relics: A New Feature in Meta Apes
Top Two NFT Projects Migrating to Other Platforms, According to Solana

Axie Infinity Launches Homeland

The Smurfs Have Arrived in the Sandbox

Illuvium Zero Demonstrates Its Alpha to the Gaming Community

Relics: A New Feature in Meta Apes

Solana See Top Two NFT Projects Migrating to other Platforms

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Benji Bananas Game Review: A Fun Playable, Swinging, and Earning Mobile Game

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In today’s gaming news, we bring you the super popular free-to-play mobile game Benji Bananas. The game is from the leaders of branded blockchain games, Animoca Brands. Benji Bananas is a play-to-earn mobile game that uses physics elements, making it a platformer/runner action game. It is quite famous among mobile gamers, with more than 50 million downloads since its launch as a casual game in 2013. The game recently introduced play to earn elements in March using APE coins by joining hands with the Bored Ape Yacht Club. Now, it has its own $PRIMATE token, which players may earn after acquiring the Membership Pass. The game has now reached its fifth season at the end of 2022 and is enjoying solid momentum. So, swing from vine to vine, eat bananas, earn crypto, and go hu-hu-ha-ha.

Benji Bananas Game Overview

Benji Bananas is a free-to-play physics mobile game. However, if you want to earn crypto tokens from this game, then you need to purchase the Benji Bananas Membership Pass NFT (ERC 1155). The game is simple; it is a platform runner where you guide your monkey and swing from vine to vine to collect fruits. The fruit collection will help you get upgrade items that cover the new skins of the game\’s cosmetics. Moreover, you will also get your hands on a jetpack, an eagle ride, a speed boost, and more.

How to Play Benji Bananas?

The first thing you need to do is download this mobile game from either the Google Play Store or the App Store. The next step involves connecting your wallet to the game. In case you already have MetaMask on your mobile device, you can head directly from the app to the game. Besides, you can also go to Benji Bananas and attach the wallet. Then you must obtain a membership pass in order to play-and-earn. Head to OpenSea, or Coinbase, or Rarible, or LooksRaer, and buy the Benji Bananas Membership Pass for 0.1 Ethereum. Once you buy the pass, go through the pass verification and sign in to Google or the App Store. Finally, you will need the KYC (Know Your Customer) verification that is required on every Animoca Brands game. KYC makes sure that everyone has the same chances and helps stop identity theft, cheating, money laundering, and other bad things from happening.

\"free — Benji Bananas Game Membership Pass

Benji Bananas Tokenomics

The game\’s \”play to earn\” system revolves around the PRIMATE token, which is its core element. Players having PRIMATE tokens can swap them with other fungible tokens in the Animoca Brands ecosystem, like SAND, REVV, PROS, TOWER, GMEE, QUID, and BONDLY. However, the primary pairing of the PRIMATE token is with APECoin from Yuga Labs and BAYC. The total supply of PRIMATE tokens is 206,000,000,000 tokens. These tokens will make it into the game in stages via different launch events. Also, the tokens will be given out by two different systems: the liquidity allocation and the play-to-earn pool, and the reserve treasury and marketing allocation.

All tokens will be minted in the four categories mentioned above. The reserve treasury may transfer tokens from its own place to others. The division of the tokens is as follows:

Total Supply: 2,060,000,000
Play-to-Earn: 235,000,000
Liquidity: 125,000,000
Treasury: 1,500,000,000
Marketing: 200,000,000

Benji Bananas Gameplay

The gameplay is quite simple and addictive, but the interesting part of this casual game is the addition of the physics element. Once you start swinging with the help of vines and gain momentum, the game gets super exciting. The momentum is the key to getting farther on the stage and collecting bananas. If you grab the vine from the top, you will lose momentum, and vice versa. The more you progress into new worlds, the more challenges you will face. So, watch out; you might grab a snake instead of the vine.

Benji Bananas Latest Swing-and-Earn Event

The latest Benji Bananas event is underway and will last until January 2. The top performers in the game will earn big rewards, but a minimum of 10 games during the event period is required to become eligible. The bonus division is as follows:

Furthest Distance 10%
Total Distance 20%
Furthest World 20%
Average Bananas 50%

This is it for Benji Bananas\’ game, do check out more on blockchain games on our weekly update where we have covered a plethora of news all in one place. Additionally, a recent survey on Web 3.0 games have covered the opinions of game developers. Finally, if you are interested in knowing about the future of blockchain gaming in 2023 and beyond, then do check out our detailed report.

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Get to Know Gala Games, a Leading Player in Blockchain Games

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Gala Games made it to the industry only a few years ago in 2019 and was among the pioneers of the “Play to Earn” games. It stood out from the rest because the company was rewarding players with tokens (GALA) for playing games on their platform in 2020 which was something out of the box at that time. So, how did Gala Games make it so big in such a less time? Stay with us today to get to know about Gala Games and what it has to offer.

Gala Games Team

The magic lies in the team, and you will get footprints of the massively popular Zynga Games here. There were 60 developers working on the platform, which has more than 1.3 million active users right now. Eric Schiermeyer is the project’s CEO. Another notable accomplishment of Eric’s is that he was a founding member of the renowned social game company Zynga.

Their main objective was to create a blockchain-based gaming network that would give players more control and ownership over games. Moreover, they aim to make blockchain gaming simple so that even those new to the blockchain concept can have fun playing and earning.

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How do Gala Games Operate?

Just imagine an online gaming platform like Miniclip or Steam but all the games that you play are powered by the blockchain. Also, all the play to earn games that you find here are free to play. These games are played through dApps or commonly known in the blockchain industry as Decentralized Applications.

A long-standing concept, play-to-earn games and blockchain-powered games with assets completely owned by users is nothing new. Gala Games, however, stands out from the other platforms in this category thanks to a few unique characteristics.

Gala Games is based on the Ethereum blockchain, but lately, the company used the p.Network Bridge DApp to connect the GALA token to the Binance Smart Chain as a BEP-20 asset. As a result, users will be able to drastically reduce transaction costs when using or holding GALA tokens. Gala Games is also a community-driven platform. The platform’s network is powered by community-owned nodes. In order to evaluate which games and features are most well-liked by the community, the development team and operational staff frequently interact with them.

Gala Games Online Store

One thing to love about Gala Games is their online store. Thanks to its built-in marketplace, Gala Games makes it simple for users to buy and sell in-game assets. Also with help of this market, gamers may quickly get the funds they need to loot their games or buy new characters and gear to improve their gameplay.

The Gala Token

As you might have noticed that all projects as such have their own utility token and for Gala Games that token is called GALA. The primary digital asset in the Gala Games ecosystem is this token, which is used for a variety of functions including item purchases, peer-to-peer payments, and rewarding nodes.

By running a Gala Node, players can also utilize the token to support the Gala Games network. If you don’t know how to set up a Gala Node, then click here. The user must first obtain a license in order to run a Gala Node. Once you’ve obtained a license, you can operate the node software from the convenience of your computer and receive rewards in the form of “rare” GALA and NFT tokens. Running a Gala Node is by no means cheap and prices change based on the market. Ethereum (ETH), GALA, or Basic Attention Token are all acceptable forms of payment (BAT). Something to keep in mind is that there is a 50,000-node limit that cannot be exceeded.

How Much Are They?

A fixed 50 billion token maximum supply is available for the GALA token. The project’s creators claim that 17,123,286 GALA tokens are awarded every day in total. The founding node’s operators receive fifty percent of this dividend. The Gala Games conservatory is where the other half goes.

Gala Games has incorporated a halving cycle into its operation, just like Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies do. The issuance is cut in half every year with halves, precisely on July 21. Therefore, by dividing the rate of issue to 8,561,643 GALA per day (this subsequent halving took place on July 21, 2022).

Blockchain Games Under Gala

For now, only 3 of these games are playable for users, while most of these games are set to release in 2023. The team is always sharing videos of the gameplay and how far each game has progressed in their communities.

Spider Tanks
Town Star
Superior
Champions Arena
GRIT
Fortitude
Battlestar Galactica
Eternal Paradox
Town Crush
The Walking Dead: Empires
Legends Reborn
Mirandus
Legacy
Last Expedition
Echoes of Empire

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