FIFA Partners with Mythical Games to Launch Mobile Game FIFA Rivals
FIFA and Mythical Games are collaborating to launch @FIFARivals, an officially licensed, free-to-play soccer game for iOS and Android. The app is scheduled for release in 2025.
Players will manage football clubs and compete against others in real-time arcade gameplay. FIFA Rivals will feature an in-game marketplace for trading football stars as NFT-collectibles on the Mythos blockchain.
John Linden, CEO of Mythical Games, stated that the goal is to replicate previous successes with Rivals games and set new benchmarks in Web3 gaming.
Mythical Games also developed the NFL Rivals game, which has over six million downloads and allows players to own and trade NFT-collectible player cards via the Mythical Marketplace on Mythos.
Suntory Group Tokenizes Premium Malt's Beer on Avalanche
Suntory Group announced a pilot project to tokenize its Premium Malt’s bottled beer on the Avalanche blockchain. This project, part of a partnership with Ava Labs, will launch on November 12 in Japanese markets.
The tokenized bottles will include a near-field communication (NFC) tag, enabling consumers to collect a unique NFT when scanned.
The announcement was made at Thailand Blockchain Week by Suntory's Chief Digital Innovation Officer Rio Inaba and Ava Labs’ Japan head Roi Hirata.
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- Monkey Tilt, a crypto gambling platform, raised $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Pantera Capital, increasing its total funding to over $50 million.
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- Season 2 of Yuga Labs’ metaverse project “Project Dragon” is launching today with new avatars and rules.
- Chiliz Group plans to launch a non-custodial Socios.com wallet for its 2.3 million users.
- The Toledo Museum of Art purchased the digital artwork “Abyssinian Queen” by Yatreda using USDC on the Ethereum blockchain.