Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft is perhaps the most active major video game publisher currently dabbling in the blockchain space. Now the company is expanding its reach even further by launching a new set of NFT avatars for the metaverse game, The Sandbox.
Avatars based on Ubisoft’s new Netflix animated series ‘Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix’ are being added to The Sandbox. And since the adult-oriented show itself combines characters and franchises from Ubisoft’s history, so will the avatar collection.
A total of 1,866 unique player avatars will be released via NFTs on Polygon, an Ethereum scaling network, and the collection will include renditions of classic Ubisoft action hero Rayman, as well as Jade and Pey’j, heroes of the cult classic Beyond Good & Evil. Most of the avatars have a futuristic, cyberpunk-esque vibe, similar to that of the show.
It’s not yet known how much The Sandbox and Ubisoft will charge for the avatars, but the coin is scheduled to be released on November 29.
Ubisoft previously released Sandbox avatars based on the Rabbids franchise (itself spawned from the Rayman series) in February, selling them for 100 SAND each. That’s only worth about $42 right now, but in February that was $78 worth of SAND.
The year is 1992, welcome to Eden
To celebrate the launch of Captain Laserhawk Blood Dragon on Netflix, Ubisoft and The Sandbox have teamed up to offer players the opportunity to enter the metaverse as @EdenOnline_exe citizens in an exclusive avatar collection! https://t.co/IV5Yoa2wQm
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— The Sandbox (@TheSandboxGame) November 20, 2023
“Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix” is an animated series that grew out of the game Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, but features characters from and references a range of Ubisoft franchises, including Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell and Ghost Exploration.
Ubisoft has been very active in the Web3 world, last week announcing plans to do a free Ethereum NFT drop around its upcoming Champions Tactics game on the Oasys blockchain. The publisher also recently announced a partnership with Immutable, the gaming platform associated with the Immutable X and Immutable zkEVM networks.
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The publisher’s blockchain moves go back years, most prominently with the late 2021 launch of in-game Tezos NFT items in Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Ubisoft has also supported the Cronos and Hedera ecosystems, created a spin-off game based on the fantasy football NFT game Sorare, and released Rabbids as Reddit NFT avatars.
Edited by Stacy Elliott.