Game developer NCSoft has introduced a partnership with Web3 developer Mysten Labs. With the partnership, NCSoft has invested $15 million into Mysten, and the 2 corporations will “discover future collaborations to create digital leisure experiences.”

That NCSoft cash will go in the direction of serving to Mysten additional develop its Sui Layer 1 blockchain. The expertise was made following Mysten’s founding in 2021, and can function infrastructure for video games and initiatives that use Web3.

NCSoft develops and publishes a number of video games, primarily MMOs. Of all builders, the South Korean studio is arguably better off with regards to growing blockchain titles. 

Having a number of MMOs operating, every from completely different inner builders and operating on their very own in-game economies, provides NCSoft an thought of easy methods to incorporate blockchain expertise right into a present or wholly new recreation. Other Eastern builders, resembling Nexon, would equally be well-suited.

In a press assertion, NCSoft president Dr. Songyee Yoon stated that Mysten “shares our imaginative and prescient for the expertise as a platform for actually distributed participant centric financial system…and reliable expertise which is essential for individuals who want to construct a platform of desired scale and attain.”

The contribution from NCSoft was half of a bigger $300 million funding that Mysten secured throughout in a Series B spherical from September. 

More builders are making progress on blockchain

Blockchain expertise, and NFTs, have been trigger for a number of partnerships between recreation builders and Web3 builders. 

Last week, Square Enix threw down the digital gauntlet with the reveal of its first full blockchain title, Symbiogenesis. The Final Fantasy writer hopes that the title will result in the beginning of a brand new franchise, and is “designed from the bottom up for Web3 followers.”

In September, the writer additionally introduced its personal partnership with Oasys, a blockchain developer that is already made partnerships with Sega and Ubisoft. 

Even so, blockchain continues to be a divisive situation amongst recreation builders. If there’s any profit to the expertise, these non-Web3 builders aren’t seeing it, and beforehand referred to as it ineffective in a research from this previous August.