TL;DR

• Palworld was created by a dude who made his early fortune in crypto, which has sparked a wave of speculation on whether the game will integrate NFTs.

• Our bet is, it won’t. The game is being distributed on Steam and Xbox, both of which have either outright banned NFTs (Steam), or frown upon them (Xbox).

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This time last year, we reported:

“…of the $7.1B that was doled out to Web3 companies in 2022, the gaming category sucked up 62% of it!“

Ever since then we’ve been anxiously waiting to see something (anything!) come out and find traction.

And this past week, our hopes weren’t answered, but instead teased by:

Palworld - aka “Pokemon, with guns.”

(This thing came out of nowhere, and promptly went on to sell 7 million copies in under a week).

Dumb name, yes. Riddled with potential copyright infringements? Double yes.

Web3 integrated? No (😫).

But here’s where the ‘teased hope’ comes in: Palworld was created by a dude who made his early fortune in crypto, which has sparked a wave of speculation on whether the game will integrate NFTs.

Our bet is, it won’t.

The game is being distributed on Steam and Xbox, both of which have either outright banned NFTs (Steam), or frown upon them (Xbox).

And the Palworld creators are going to have to answer some bigger questions first, like:

How do these characters not impede on the Pokemon Company’s intellectual property? (Cause there are some pretty close calls here).

Oh well, we can dream…