Cryptocurrency is making inroads into video games, including a surging wave of blockchain-based games that range from free-to-play mobile titles to big-budget AAA games for PCs and consoles. NFTs are creeping in, too. Not everyone’s thrilled.
The fear is that crypto and NFTs will contort gaming into a side hustle, focused more on money making and less on entertainment, as CNET’s Dan Van Boom reports. But he notes as well that for many developers, the goal isn’t to make titles that benefit crypto speculators, but rather to make games fun enough that people can justify playing them regardless of whether they earn crypto or not. CNET’s Oscar Gonzalez, meanwhile, looks into an earlier backlash that might offer clues about how all this will unfold.
Those articles are among the many in-depth features and thought-provoking commentaries that appeared on CNET this week. So here you go. These are the stories you don’t want to miss.
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