In addition, they have announced the launch of a full-fledged MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) with investors including Dialectic, Alexis Ohanian, Libertus Capital, Kenetic Capital, Placeholder, 1confirmation, WENEW Labs, No Goat Milk (Future Corp) and crypto Twitter royalty Fiskantes, Deeze and Soby.
The web3 interactive fantasy game will be a hub for a variety of games and experiences including mining resources, crafting items, ownership of land, socializing, epic quests, battles, and more.
In their “create-to-earn” economy, every item is an NFT and every resource is a token. Bisonic Inc, a company backed by industry veterans is developing and publishing the game with Magic Machine.
”Machine’s business model revolves around granting commercial rights to all of their NFT owners, which allows the community to participate in a portion of the proceeds that are generated by the upcoming television series.”
What Is The Sandbox? Pixowl founded The Sandbox in 2012 as a mobile gaming platform and is a play-to-earn blockchain version that allows users to create their own avatars to access the various hubs, environments and games on the crypto-driven metaverse. This version of the game, launched in 2018 by its cofounders Sebastien Borget and Arthur Madrid, lets players create their virtual worlds with non-fungible tokens on Ethereum, earning rewards while participating in the ecosystem.
A beta version of The Sandbox Marketplace was launched in April 2021, allowing users to purchase in-game NFTs from 46 artists. At the time, The Sandbox had partnerships with brands like The Smurfs, CryptoKitties, and Shaun the Sheep. Later in 2021, it announced partnerships with The Walking Dead and rapper Snoop Dogg. In November 2021, The Sandbox raised $93 million in a funding round led by SoftBank.
The Sandbox Alpha launched on November 29, 2021. Soon after the launch, entrepreneur Adrian Cheng announced that he would build land in the Sandbox metaverse. By March 2022, The Sandbox had two million users and debuted the "Alpha Season 2" event, allowing broader access to gameplay experiences. It also entered into partnerships to create virtual worlds in The Sandbox for Warner Music Group, Gucci, and Rabbids.
The Sandbox Alphaは2021年11月29日に始動。その後すぐに、起業家のAdrian Chengが、Sandboxのメタバースに土地（LAND）を建設すると発表。 2022年3月まで、The Sandboxには200万のユーザーがおり、ゲームプレイ体験に広くアクセスできる「アルファシーズン2」イベントをデビューさせました。 また、The Sandboxに仮想世界を作成するパートナーシップを、Warner Music Group（ワーナー・ミュージック・グループ）、ファッション・ブランドのGucci（グッチ）、Ubisoftのマルチメディア・コンテンツのRabbids（ラビッツ）と組んでいます。
Cool Cats are coming to NYC！ かっこいい猫ちゃんたちがニューヨーク市にやってくる！
…とのこと。なにそれ？
ネコ好きなもので、「かっこいい猫ちゃんたち？ ひょっとして猫関連のイベント？」などとワクワクしながら、軽く調べてみますと、実はその週のニューヨークは、『NFT.NYCのための週』（week for NFT.NYC）とか呼ばれるなかなか特別（史上初？）な週でして、NFT業界関係者や投資家向けの世界最大規模の歴史的なイベントが、市内各所の会場（例えば、タイムズ・スクエアにあるマリオット・ホテルの6階分ものフロアを貸切りとか）で開催されていたのですって。
結局、なんで猫ちゃんなのかはあまり分かりませんが、いろいろ調べてみますと、「Cool Cats are coming to NYC！」（かっこいい猫ちゃんたちがニューヨーク市にやってくる！）とのNFTとはぜんぜん関係ないキャッチ・コピーでデジタル看板を出すだけありまして、楽しそうなのは伝わってきます。
Roblox launched in September 2006 and has been one of the many games that players, specifically children, have used to stay connected with their friends while stuck in quarantine. In March, Roblox saw a 40 percent increase in users; in April, Roblox Corporation told Bloomberg that“two-thirds of all U.S. kids between 9 and 12 years old use Roblox, and it’s played by a third of all Americans under the age of 16.”
In just three months, that number has apparently now grown from “a third” to “over half” of all Americans that age,and the company says it has 120 million active monthly players.
