Animoca Brands acquires 70% of Life Beyond creator Darewise
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Blockchain gaming company Animoca Brands said it has agreed to acquire 70% of Darewise Entertainment, the indie game company that is making the metaverse-like blockchain online game Life Beyond.
The deal shows Animoca Brands is serious about acquiring high-quality games that can help show that blockchain games can mix well with triple-A content. The deal comes just days after Animoca Brands bought racing game developer Eden Games.
Paris-based Darewise was founded by veterans of companies like Ubisoft, and it is making a blockchain-based massively multiplayer online game called Life Beyond.
“It has been going for some time, but it’s very exciting that it’s finally happening,” said Benjamin Charbit, CEO of Darewise, in an interview with GamesBeat. “At the core, what we have been developing since the beginning was a great fit for decentralized technology because we wanted to run a real-money economy. Back in the beginning, we thought that blockchain was maybe too hardcore to and not developed enough. And then we started changing our mind at the end of the first half of 2021.”
Darewise’s team has made games such as Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed Unity, Dying Light 2, Black & White, Tom Clancy’s The Division, and the Fable series. Charbit, a former Ubisoft game director, started the company with Samuel Kahn, former Crytek tech lead. They will both continue to operate the company after the acquisition.
The collaboration between Animoca Brands and Darewise Entertainment will facilitate planned growth, accelerate game development, and combine expert triple-A video game development with blockchain
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