the The video game „Plague Hunters“ of the game design Studios Arcade Distillery uses the Blockchain technology for the in-game marketplace. Players can swap over to the integrated platform objects and digital Token, in order to improve their characters. The title for the Sony Playstation 4 is the first Videogame, the so-called non-tradable Token (NFTs), one of the most important gaming consoles will be implemented.

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crypto kitties has it: the video game industry is a potential field for distributed applications. The announcement of Sony, the Peer-to-Peer Token-trade for Plague Hunters to unlock, could make the technology accessible to a wider audience. Because the game is the first Playstation title, in which the Blockchain technology.

As the Trailer reveals, may enter the player in trade relations with your fellow players to improve their characters. In the Video it is at about second 52:

„Trade Hunters on the Blockchain with other players in order to develop Your strength.“

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With the official license by Sony, the New York company Arcade Distillery, the first game manufacturer, the so-called „NFTs“ (non-negotiable Token) is one of the major consoles implemented. This NTFs the game can exchange then items such as weapons, equipment and Items.

„We have to understand what is on the Blockchain is great, but all of them just try to copy crypto kitties. That’s cool, but very specific. So we thought, we could develop a Blockchain game for consoles. And that’s what we did“,

explains Distillery-CCO Luc Bernard.

When Plague Hunters is ultimately a rehash of the previous year’s title Plague Road – with the important addition of the NFTs. Plague Road is a turn-based role-playing game with Player-versus-Player (PVP).

the use of the Blockchain-market is not a Must. So players can decide for themselves whether the game, with their Ether-want to connect to address, or not.

The future belongs to the Blockchain

Arcade Distillery interprets the signs of the times. The integration of the technology gives the Studio a huge competitive advantage. Because so far it has made not a game developer, to make a title with the NFT implementation by one of the big console manufacturers approve of that.

another goal of the company is the licensing of the underlying Blockchain platform, the competition is also. Does not react to the technical Details of Bernard, however, because „if we let everyone know how we did it, no one will license our technology.“

Plague Hunter appears in the next year for Nintendo Switch and Playstation 4.