Gaming Giant Ubisoft Brings Another Franchise to Ethereum’s ‘Sandbox’ Metaverse

Ubisoft, the huge gaming model behind the Murderer’s Creed and Simply Dance franchises, will drop a brand new sequence of avatars this week for Ethereum metaverse recreation The Sandbox—and this time round, they’re additionally based mostly on a Web3-native recreation.

Avatars based mostly on Champions Techniques: Grimoria Chronicles—an authentic blockchain recreation launched by Ubisoft final fall—will probably be launched for The Sandbox as NFTs on Ethereum scaling community Polygon.

The Champions Techniques NFT avatars will probably be launched on Wednesday, January 29, with the avatars promoting for 170 SAND ($88) to folks on the allowlist, or 180 SAND ($93) within the public sale for any remaining belongings.

Patrons is not going to solely obtain an avatar usable in The Sandbox—a metaverse recreation with quite a few model and movie star companions, starting from Snoop Dogg to The Smurfs and lots extra—but in addition three champions characters to make use of in Champions Techniques, the turn-based PC technique recreation.

Ubisoft beforehand introduced its Rabbids creatures—from the long-running Rayman model—to The Sandbox, and adopted that up with characters from the Netflix animated sequence “Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix,” which is impressed by a recreation within the Far Cry franchise.

The Netflix sequence was later tapped for a blockchain recreation known as Captain Laserhawk: The G.A.M.E., which was launched in December with NFT entry passes minted on Ethereum scaling community Arbitrum.

Ubisoft is the largest Web2 gaming juggernaut taking part in within the Web3 world, not solely by means of video games like Champions Techniques and Captain Laserhawk, but in addition collaborations like The Sandbox, investments, and strikes to mentor and help startups.