Web3 gaming company staffed by industry veterans unveils very first project

cointelegraph.com:

An independent Web3 gaming company has unveiled its very first project — and is vowing to offer an immersive, powerful experience for players.

Digital Insight Games says its debut title will be known as Cloud Castles. It's scheduled to be released in 2023 — and promises to blend beloved elements from role-playing games with cutting-edge real-time strategy and tactics.

In lush battlegrounds rendered in stunning detail using the latest technology, including Unreal Engine 5, Cloud Castles will give gamers the chance to collect and evolve fantasy creatures, and deploy them in fast-paced battles.

Of course, a key tenet of Web3 is the ownership of in-game assets — and for this reason, blockchain technology will be used so players have full control of everything they acquire, collect, modify, build and achieve.

The team at Digital Insight Games have an extensive background in the world of gaming — and many employees previously worked at top companies including Tencent, Electronic Arts, Take-Two Interactive, Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard.

Co-founders and co-CEOs Jon Van Caneghem and Jack Sheng were both previously at Tencent. While JVC led research and development studios in North America for this tech giant, Sheng headed up international partnerships and investments.

JVC — who was inducted into the Computer Gaming World Hall of Fame in 2004 and previously brought Might and Magic to the masses — told Cointelegraph: "The transition to digital asset ownership and blockchain gaming is so exciting. It's a similar kind of transformation when we went from regular games to free to play. 

"Back then, the industry was completely against it, where people said you're going to ruin the industry. And now it turns out that because of free to play