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🎮GameFi highlights:
⛹️Spanish La Liga Launches a Project on Decentraland.
⚽Sorare web3 fantasy football partners up with Messi.
☁️Gamefi Project Oasys Aims to Grow Blockchain Gaming in Japan with YGG Partnership.
👟Nike and Adidas on the rise with NFT and Metaverse.
💵 MetaMask and HyperPlay partner up to attract web2 gamers to web3.
📖Blockchain gaming has 5x user retention versus web2.
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🗺️Metaverse
🏝️Abu Dhabi is set to launch a Yas Island entertainment Metaverse in 2023.
The Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) has joined forces with a number of businesses and tech platforms, including Flash Entertainment, Miral, Abu Dhabi Motorsport, and Roblox, to transform the 25 square kilometer island into a digital space. Once online, users will be able to meet up, play games and explore the island. The emirate’s leisure district is home to theme parks, an F1 circuit, shopping malls, and aquariums.
SK Telekom (SKT) has announced ifland, the best K-Pop focused social Metaverse in Korea, has launched in 49 countries.
To celebrate the global launch of ifland, SKT will be showcasing a wide variety of live K-pop content every week. Original metaverse K-pop content titled “The Fan Live Talkon” will target K-pop fans overseas, with over 50% of content provided in English. Every week, ifland will offer live content related to K-pop – e.g. auditions for K-pop trainees and nurturing of K-pop idols – for global fans to enjoy.
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🏦Fundraising
➡️Dubai start-up Rekt Studios raises $1.5M as it plans to launch its first gaming metaverse.
The funding round was backed by the blockchain and Web3 venture capital firm Cypher Capital.
➡️Web3 and VR game developer Thirdverse secures $15M in funding to accelerate company growth.
The latest round brings the total amount of raised funding for Thirdverse to $33 million with MZ Web3 Fund being the lead investor.
➡️Web3 gaming protocol Heroic Story raises $6M in a seed round led by Upfront Ventures.
The seed round also attracted participation from Multicoin Capital and Polygon Technology and several angel investors, bringing Heroic Story’s total fundraising to $7.4 million.
➡️PlayEmber raised $2.3 million pre-seed round led by Shima Capital.
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