Animoca Brands

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Animoca Brands is a gaming company with their headquarters in Hong Kong. They were founded in January 2016 by Yat Siu, and initially focused a lot on mobile games. However, nowadays they are one of the premier companies in the blockchain gaming space. They publish and develop games, acquire studios and invest in promising projects.

Animoca Brands has several subsidiaries, including game studios like for example Pixowl, The Sandbox, nWay, Stryking Entertainment. They also have a partnership with Dapper Labs, the company behind the Flow blockchain, and they have invested in the strategy game Axie Infinity.

The blockchain games company is the organization behind a variety of crypto tokens. They use REVV for their racing games, including MotoGP Ignition and F1 Delta Time. Then there’s SAND, which is the main currency for The Sandbox. In addition they are working with other subsidiaries on more tokens, like GAMEE and LYMPO.

  • Blockade Games to Expand Neon District Universe

    Blockade Games to Expand Neon District Universe

    Robert Hoogendoorn
    Blockchain video game studio Blockade Games has received a $5 million investment from Animoca Brands and various other investors to expand the Neon District universe. The team plans to add new in-game functionalities and introduce new assets into the ecosystem. At the moment Neon District exists as a tactical turn-based cyberpunk RPG on the Polygon […]
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  • Animoca Brands Invests in Monopoly Game Upland

    Animoca Brands Invests in Monopoly Game Upland

    Robert Hoogendoorn
    The virtual real-estate game Upland has raised $18 million at a $300 million valuation through an investment round led by Animoca Brands. Upland wants to use the funding to speed-up their roadmap and deliver new features a lot faster. They also want to bring more corporations into the virtual world of Upland. Animoca Brands itself […]
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  • Alpine Racing Making Exclusive NFT Cars

    Alpine Racing Making Exclusive NFT Cars

    Robert Hoogendoorn
    Alpine Racing will become the first car manufacturer to release new concept cars exclusively as an NFT, and these will become available in REVV Racing. The Alpine GTA Concept will come in five versions, created by the Alpine Cars and Alpine F1 Team. Auctions will start on November 3rd, and end on the 5th. Alpine […]
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  • Tower NFT Sale on Binance Marketplace

    Tower NFT Sale on Binance Marketplace

    Phil Hall
    Animoca Brands brings an NFT sale for its upcoming Tower blockchain game to Binance Smart Chain. Starting on November 5th, players and speculators alike can purchase NFTs that include content for Crazy Defense Heroes as well as the in-development tower defense game. For quite some time, Animoca brands has allowed players of Crazy Defense Heroes […]
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  • Phantom Galaxies Gameplay Shows Mecha Combat in Space

    Phantom Galaxies Gameplay Shows Mecha Combat in Space

    Robert Hoogendoorn
    Blowfish Studios and Animoca Brands have shown the first gameplay footage of their upcoming action space game Phantom Galaxies. In this pre-beta footage you can see fast-paced action as spaceships transform into mechas, attack enemies and morph back to evade incoming rockets. It’s probably one of the most bad ass looking blockchain games coming to […]
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  • Gaming Giant Ubisoft Invests in Animoca Brands

    Gaming Giant Ubisoft Invests in Animoca Brands

    Robert Hoogendoorn
    Blockchain gaming company Animoca Brands has raised a $65 million investment from video game company Ubisoft and various investors, including Tron founder Justin Sun. With this investment Animoca Brands would be valued at $2.2 billion, making it one of the most valuable companies in this blockchain gaming space. We’ve seen Animoca Brands as an investor […]
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  • Phantom Galaxies New Space Game from Animoca Brands

    Phantom Galaxies New Space Game from Animoca Brands

    Robert Hoogendoorn
    Animoca Brands is working with Blowfish Studios to launch an NFT-powered action RPG in space called Phantom Galaxies. According to the exclusive report by VentureBeat the game will launch next year on PC and major consoles, and it will use NFTs to add content of allow some customization. Phantom Galaxies is all about mechas, as […]
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  • MotoGP Ignition Selling Race Highlights as NFTs

    MotoGP Ignition Selling Race Highlights as NFTs

    Robert Hoogendoorn
    Animoca Brands announced the release of MotoGP Ignition Hot Shots, an NFT collection representing exciting moments from MotoGP race events. Interested collectors need to pre-register, and the sale itself will commence on September 28th. While gamers might still be waiting for the MotoGP Ignition race management game, the NFT collecting side of the project is […]
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  • Yield Guild Games Organizes REVV Racing Cup

    Yield Guild Games Organizes REVV Racing Cup

    Robert Hoogendoorn
    Animoca Brands and the play-to-earn DAO Yield Guild Games have teamed up to organize the REVV Racing YGG Cup, taking place from the 10th until the 16th of September. The play-to-earn tournament has a $150,000 prize pool and the top player taking home $12,000. Animoca and Yield Guild Games will have rewards for the 1,000 […]
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  • Win $150,000 in REVV Racing TOWER Cup

    Win $150,000 in REVV Racing TOWER Cup

    Robert Hoogendoorn
    Animoca Brands has launched the TOWER Cup tournament for the play-to-earn racing game REVV Racing, and gamers can win $150,000 in prizes. The 1,000 fasters drivers will share $100,000 in REVV tokens and $50,000 in TOWER tokens, in addition every player gets Crazy Defense Heroes gems simply for participating. The latest REVV Racing tournament is […]
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