Solana will tout games at PlayGG Comic-Con event in July
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The Solana Foundation announced it will launch a free Solana games exhibition dubbed PlayGG at an event ahead of San Diego Comic-Con International in July.
Johnny Lee, head of games at Solana, said the company wants to show more than 50 Web3 games at the exhibition as part of a bid to normalize blockchain games, which have been criticized for poor quality and scams.
It’s also an attempt to revive the reputation of the Solana blockchain protocol, which saw its value dragged down last fall with the collapse of FTX, which was one of the protocol’s biggest supporters. Solana also had stability problems, and it has seen a number of its game developers migrate over to other blockchains such as Immutable and Polygon.
The new celebration of games will take place on July 18 and July 19 at the Julep venue in San Diego, immediately before the big Comic-Con event. Developers and other personalities like Twitch streamers are expected to show the Web3 gaming wares at PlayGG, which stands for Play Good Games.
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Solana previously did a Solana GameState event back in November, where it had 33 game studios with 40 playable games. About 20 of those games are now live.
“We’re so positive about Solana games that we decided to do it again,” Lee said. “But we decided to do it in a little bit more strategic fashion. So we removed
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