Did you understand Rayman is in a brand new Ubisoft online game this week? Neither did we.
As reported in Stephen Totilo’s publication, Game File, Ubisoft quietly launched a brand new sport this week known as Captain Laswerhawk: The G.A.M.E.. This new launch was hardly marketed or given the sort of showy highlight reserved for main releases, and it might need one thing to do with how this can be a Web 3 sport that makes use of cryptocurrency and the blockchain. Remember these?
You can also bear in mind the identify Captain Laserhawk because it’s primarily based on the Netflix animated collection Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix. This was an animated present primarily based off of Far Cry: Blood Dragon, which was a DLC primarily based on Far Cry 3.
Captain Laserhawk (the sport, not the present) is seemingly a top-down multiplayer shooter obtainable on PC, and options characters from the present in addition to Rayman, Ubisoft’s beloved, and lacking, platform mascot hero.
You can learn Totilo’s full impressions of Captain Laswerhawk: The G.A.M.E. over on Polygon the place he particulars the necessity to buy an NFT to play the sport in any respect. It sounds fairly tedious, and the precise gameplay would not have me reaching for my cryptowallet anytime quickly.
Ubisoft was one of many first main videog ame corporations to go in on NFTs and blockchain, launching its personal collection of NFTs again in 2022. Ubisoft additionally tried to launch Web 3 weapons and armore in Ghost Recon Breakpoint for gamers to promote and commerce. At a DICE convention I attended round then, I even heard a chat from Ubisoft about their pleasure over the potential of the blockchain.
Ubisoft has since stopped speaking about Web 3 and blockchain, very similar to the remainder of the trade as NFTs have gone the best way of the non-fungible dinosaur. But evidently Ubisoft did have another sport tied to Web 3 within the pipeline and determined to quietly launch it this week.
Meanwhile, the wait for an additional Rayman sport continues.
Matt Kim is IGN’s Senior Features Editor. You can attain him @lawoftd.
