Ubisoft Quietly Releases NFT Game Featuring Rayman

Did you cognize Rayman is successful a caller Ubisoft video crippled this week? Neither did we.

As reported successful Stephen Totilo's newsletter, Game File, Ubisoft softly released a caller crippled this week called Captain Laswerhawk: The G.A.M.E.. This caller merchandise was hardly advertised aliases fixed nan benignant of showy spotlight reserved for awesome releases, and it mightiness person thing to do pinch really this is simply a Web 3 crippled that uses cryptocurrency and nan blockchain. Remember those?

You whitethorn besides retrieve nan sanction Captain Laserhawk arsenic it's based connected nan Netflix animated bid Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix. This was an animated show based disconnected of Far Cry: Blood Dragon, which was a DLC based connected Far Cry 3.

Captain Laserhawk (the game, not nan show) is apparently a top-down multiplayer shooter disposable connected PC, and features characters from nan show arsenic good arsenic Rayman, Ubisoft's beloved, and missing, level mascot hero.

You tin publication Totilo's afloat impressions of Captain Laswerhawk: The G.A.M.E. complete connected Polygon where he specifications nan request to acquisition an NFT to play nan crippled astatine all. It sounds rather tedious, and nan existent gameplay doesn't person maine reaching for my cryptowallet anytime soon.

Ubisoft was 1 of nan first awesome videog ame companies to spell successful connected NFTs and blockchain, launching its ain bid of NFTs backmost successful 2022. Ubisoft besides tried to motorboat Web 3 guns and armore successful Ghost Recon Breakpoint for players to waste and trade. At a DICE convention I attended astir then, I moreover heard a talk from Ubisoft astir their excitement complete nan imaginable of nan blockchain.

Ubisoft has since stopped talking astir Web 3 and blockchain, overmuch for illustration nan remainder of nan manufacture arsenic NFTs person gone nan measurement of nan non-fungible dinosaur. But it seems that Ubisoft did person 1 much crippled tied to Web 3 successful nan pipeline and decided to softly merchandise it this week.

Meanwhile, nan hold for different Rayman crippled continues.

Matt Kim is IGN's Senior Features Editor. You tin scope him @lawoftd.