Parallel, an NFT-driven aggressive card recreation constructed on Ethereum, launched Wednesday on the Epic Video games Retailer, probably reaching a far bigger viewers within the course of.
The Epic Video games Retailer is a distinguished PC gaming market, and had 270 million customers as of the top of 2023, together with some 75 million month-to-month lively customers. Epic Video games is the creator of free-to-play shooter hit Fortnite and has acquired different video games like Rocket League, however the retailer hosts video games from a big selection of studios.
Parallel, which was GG’s choose for the 2023 recreation of the 12 months, expanded entry earlier this 12 months with the launch of an open beta model of the sport, following the earlier closed beta.
The aggressive buying and selling card recreation is constructed round NFTs minted on Ethereum and layer-2 scaling community Base, though it additionally options non-tokenized in-game playing cards. Gamers who obtain the free-to-play recreation on the Epic Video games Retailer can unlock 5 extra “Apparition Packs” with the non-NFT playing cards.
𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲
Obtain Parallel straight from Epic and unlock an unique perk – 5 extra Apparition Packs to raise your gameplay.https://t.co/hEEvHcBkKk pic.twitter.com/MycvThEKBR
— Parallel (@ParallelTCG) June 12, 2024
Together with opening up extra avenues to play the sport, together with a deliberate cellular model of the sport in some unspecified time in the future, Parallel Studios—which raised $35 million in March, and just lately launched Parallel’s Planetfall growth—can also be embracing esports with over $500,000 price of prizes deliberate for the primary 12 months of Parallel League competitors.
However there are larger plans past, teased Head of Partnerships Franklin Fitch.
“Parallel going stay on Epic opens us as much as tens of millions extra gamers worldwide,” stated Fitch in a launch. “However we do not plan to cease there. As we roll out extra methods to entry and play Parallel, we additionally plan to scale our aggressive prize pool into tens of millions of {dollars} subsequent 12 months.”
Past Parallel, the agency is additionally creating Colony, an upcoming generative AI-driven simulation recreation constructed on Solana.
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
