The Galaverse conference is taking place in Malta this week with lots of news and updates being released. Gala Games announces on day one of the conference that their upcoming Wild West title “GRIT” will be their first web3 game featured on the Epic Games Store.
Gala Games stated that this first step will hopefully help ignite the process of bringing web3 games to the masses, exposing millions of gamers to the world of blockchain gaming.
Other web2 gaming marketplaces, such as Steam, have banned web3 games that use NFTs or blockchain technology. But Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said Epic Games would allow them on the store, which has an impressive 194 million plus users.
“GRIT” is an upcoming battle royale title set in the Wild West being built by Team Grit. Team Grit is a new game development and publishing company established by veteran industry insiders Bob Berry and Jon Mavor, creators of Planetary Annihilation and Monday Night Combat. The game will be a free-to-play online multiplayer game for Windows PC players, and it will feature user-owned ERC-721 NFT assets that can be purchased, resold, and utilized within the game. Play modes will include solo, duo and squad mechanics.
The game will be launching towards the end of 2022.
