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- An announcement was made by the gaming behemoth Konami that it will be auctioning the NFT collection of the Castlevania series for its 35th anniversary.
- Scenes from initial Nintendo games, Poster arts as well as audio files will be included in the Non Fungible Tokens.
- The gaming tokens will not be useful for the in-game activities. They will be representing the memories of Castlevania.
“Memorable” NFTs
Konami, one of the biggest names in the gaming industry, has made an announcement regarding the launch of Castlevania NFTs. Castlevania is also one of the franchises of Konami, beginning as a game, then got its own Anime series which was well-liked by the viewers.
Konami will be celebrating the 80s series started initially for Nintendo Entertainment System through the launch of its NFTs.
The collection of NFTs will be including the scenes from the numerous entries of the series on Nintendo and its Japanese Parallel, the Famicon. Other NFTs will be featuring the initial Dracula Castle’s pixel art, poster art of “Castlevania: Circle of the Moon,” a Gameboy game, and a repetitive audio file of “Vampire Killer,” music theme of Castlevania.
Unlike some gaming organization NFTs, these non-fungible tokens will not be useful in the games, as they are just memories that are going to celebrate the occasion of Castlevania’s anniversary.
There will be a total of 14 NFTs up for bidding, and only a copy of every NFT will be accessible to the purchasers.
The bidding will be live on the 12th of Jan and will end in 4 hours. However, the NFTs have already started to get attention as bids have already been placed by some users, which are visible on OpenSea. The series items have lured the bids for as low as 0.0005ETH and as high as 0.0014 ETH so far.
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The Pursuit of NFTs
Gaming mammoth Konami is one of the numerous gaming organizations that are attracted towards NFTs. Organizations like GameStop, EA, Square Enix, and Ubisoft have all released Non fungible tokens facilities and commodities or have active plans to launch them.
However, many of the strategies have experienced a counterblast by people, both because of the escalated hype surrounding Non Fungible Tokens and the excessive costs of blockchain mining.
Some of the counterblasts have already been faced by Konami regarding its strategies for NFTs, as the comparisons were made by the critics regarding the cold-shouldered shift to the pachinko machines. However, at present, no organized rival is in sight against Konami, and the gaming giant seems to be moving ahead with the non-fungible token bidding.
En passant, the news came along with SEGA’s announcement revealing lately that the strategy regarding the non-fungible tokens might face its end because of its hostile reception. The strategy regarding NFTs was announced by SEGA back in March 2020.
NFTs are becoming mainstream day by day and are a great source of income for artists, especially those who are into digital art.
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