N3twork Studios announces Legendary: Heroes Unchained
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N3twork Studios is officially unveiling the next game in the Legendary franchise; Legendary: Heroes Unchained. The new game is a hero collecting RPG — picture gacha games in your head and you’re almost there. It’s not a perfect comparison, but the differences are there and noticeable if you play both.
Legendary: Heroes Unchained is also a play-and-earn game build from the ground up for blockchain. Which makes sense, since N3twork Studios is at the forefront of blockchain games. The studio isn’t just making them, it’s trying to make them so fun the barrier to entry for players stops mattering.
It helps that N3twork Studios is staffed by a bunch of industry veterans. It’s got people from EA, Double Fine, Disney, Marvel, Zynga, Activision and more. Eagle eyed readers out there might recognize a lot of those studios have dipped toes into this sort of thing before. Maybe not blockchain specifically, but loot boxes, gacha mechanics and free-to-play titles are all covered.
“As proven experts in free-to-play, Web2 gaming, we believe that Web3 marks an exciting, inevitable, and player-first evolution that will put the power of digital ownership into the hands of our community,” said N3twork Studios boss Matt Ricchetti, in a statement to GamesBeat. “We firmly believe that when players own their heroes, gear and other in-game items, games will be more fun and more fair for the players who spend endless hours strategizing with their guilds, building the ultimate collection of heroes and fighting for the top spots in the seasonal leaderboards.”
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