“Dr Disrespect” Gaming YouTube Broadcaster unveiled the first look at its upcoming NFT shooter dubbed Deaddrop July 30.
Initial reaction was mixed, however, with some disappointed with the game’s lack of polish given that Dr. Disrepect boasted in a now-deleted Tweet from June that he’s already “blowing something” from the Call game engine. of Duty.
User @Jonesy_Actual said the game currently looks like “a Chuck E Cheese arcade shooter” while @MemeCyptum sarcastically interjected: “Dr Disrespect tried to make an NFT shooter and it looks like a **?I’m shocked I tell you, absolutely shocked.
This is Dr Disrespect’s new NFT shooting game called “DEADROP”.
This is the game he said if he took a screenshot it would blow anything out of the CoD engine.
He probably meant CoD mobile (which is always handy) pic.twitter.com/JntaM8Ny5r
—Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) July 30, 2022
Others, however, called for patience, as the game is still in the early stages of development and may go through a lot of changes before the final version is complete.
“Lol, it’s so early in development, but people still need to hate? At least it’s clear on the development, showing each step as it goes. Just hating the game for the sake of making it clear,” @L1GHTNING96 wrote.
Dr Disrespect has over four million subscribers on YouTube and 2.4 million followers on Twitter. He recently launched what he dubbed a triple-A game studio called Midnight Society which has in partnership with Polygon Studios to develop gaming NFTs through Polygon’s Ethereum scaling network.
The first images show a simplistic first-person shooter with a player running and shooting at targets within range.
The new game is expected to use NFTs to give users digital ownership of in-game items and rewards.
According to the Midnight Society website, it recently sold all 10,000 tokenized Founder Passes which included playable avatars for Deaddrop. NFTs also provide early access to the game, as well as voting rights on game feature integrations and a host of other benefits. Polygon-based NFTs cost $50 per pop and were used as a way to fund the game’s development.
I woke up this morning feeling so good.
Think about what can come out of @DEADROP over the next few years.
Long way to go, with a HUGE vision.
— Dr. Disrespect (@DrDisrespect) July 30, 2022
Shiba Eternity
The team behind the Memecoin Shiba Inu (SHIB) have revealed the name of the project’s next mobile NFT game in partnership with PlaySide Studios.
The game is called Shiba Eternity, and the SHIB team revealed that it will be available on both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. It is developed as part of the larger project objective of build a metaverse ecosystem and will be compatible with its Shiboshi NFT.
The game will come in two modes, a free-to-play mobile game and a version incorporating NFTs and play-to-win features.
We are proud to reveal the name of the Shib CCG game, Shiba Eternity™!
We work alongside @PlaysideStudios on a test schedule and an exciting release!
The game will be available on both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.
Game on #ShibArmy with #ShibaEternity! pic.twitter.com/iJnyMUVZWb
— Shib (@Shibtoken) August 2, 2022
FC Barcelona sells NFT artwork for $700,000
Spanish football giant FC Barcelona (Barca) sold an NFT artwork featuring club legend Johan Cruyff for $693,000 via auction house Sotheby’s in New York on July 29.
The audio and visual artwork “In a Way, Immortal” depicts a golden Cruyff scoring an iconic goal against Atletico Madrid in 1973, and was created by a team of 40 computer graphics and visual effects artists. The piece is backed by a soundtrack that includes a 30-piece orchestra.
As part of the sale, the owner of NFT will now become a Barca digital ambassador and gain exclusive access to VIP events with the club.
Cruyff played for Barca between 1973 and 1978 and returned to coach the team for a very successful spell between 1988 and 1996. He died in 2016 and is considered one of the most important figures in the club’s history .
Barca also announced this week that they have partnered with fan token platform Socios to advance the team’s blockchain, NFT and Web3. initiatives. As part of the deal, Socios owner Chiliz will invest $100 million in Barca Studios and acquire a 24.5% stake in the team’s digital content creation and distribution hub.
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Digital Avatar Funko Pops, of the Airbending variety
Funko and Paramount have teamed up to launch a series of Digital Funko Pop NFTs featuring characters from Nickelodeon’s beloved series Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra.
The collection will be available for purchase via Dropp.io starting August 9 and will include 625,000 NFTs of varying rarity levels spread across standard five-token packs for $9.99 and premium 15-token packs for $29. $99.
Funko are the creators of the bestselling collectibles that depict licensed content from an endless list of famous pop culture characters and people. If collectors are lucky enough to score a rare Digital Funko Pop NFT Avatar, they will be able to exchange it for a limited edition physical Funko Pop collectible figure.
Other interesting news:
Monday trading volume for CryptoPunks NFTs jumped 1,847% more than 24 hours. More than 1,226.68 ether (ETH) worth Punk NFT was traded during this time. The renewed interest appears to be tied to luxury jewelry retailer Tiffany & Co.’s launch of its own NFT collection, which has a special benefit for punk wearers.
The next Muse NFT album “Will of the People” will be the last chart-eligible album format since 2015. Prior to this album concept, the last format accepted by the international charts was album streams. NFT albums are now eligible for the UK and Australian charts.