Yesterday games company Zynga announced a strategic partnership with Forte, which develops blockchain solutions for game publishers. The aim is to use Zynga’s intellectual property for blockchain games.
Zynga’s first claim to fame was Farmville, the massively popular game originally launched on Facebook in 2009. Nowadays, it mainly does mobile games. Japanese game firm GJIT developed the play-to-earn game Farmers World, attempting to capture similar success in web3. To date, the game has logged $168 million in NFT trades, according to CryptoSlam.
Last month Forte raised an eye-popping $725 million series B funding round that included Animoca Brands, Warner Music and Tiger Global. Several blockchain protocol firms also participated, such as Cosmos, Polygon and Solana. So far, Forte has agreements with 40 game developers.
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