CCP Games Announces It's Raised $40M In Funding For New Blockchain Game, Project Awakening
CCP Games has been working on a game leveraging blockchain for some time now. This has been known for a while, as both CCP Games and parent company Pearl Abyss have said in the past year. Now, CCP Games has announced it has raised $40 million in funding for its upcoming triple-A blockchain title, Project Awakening.
CCP Games made some capsuleers happy last year when CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson said in a statement that NFT's were "Not for Tranquility," a play on the acronym and the name of EVE Online's live server. However, this didn't exactly close the door on blockchain games coming from the studio. Indeed, if the fact that CCP Games took Killmails from the Alliance tournament and turned them into NFTs, the evidence was there that the studio was fascinated with blockchain and its associated technology.
<p dir=«ltr» lang=«en» xml:lang=«en»>We're excited to announce that we have secured $40M financing, led by @a16z, to create a new AAA game within the EVE Universe utilizing blockchain technology. Learn more here: https://t.co/IZJlPRcZ0z pic.twitter.com/y9cqZKtt2lToday, the CCP Games team announced that the upcoming Project Awakening will be set in the EVE Online universe, and CCP plans to use «smart-contract blockchain technology» to help «create a new relationship between virtual worlds and players.»
Via the announcement page:
«With key game systems developed on-chain, this new project will also leverage smart-contract blockchain technology, focusing on persistence, composability and truly open third-party development to create a new relationship between virtual worlds and players.»
CCP Games' Hilmar Veigar Pétursson states that blockchain will give the studio a new way to power player agency and autonomy within the new
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