Nftnews Today Yuga Labs acquires Beeple’s 10KTF game, hints at metaverse integration

Yuga Labs, creators of Bored Ape Yacht Membership (BAYC), have acquired 10KTF; the NFT sport based by digital artist Michael Winkelmann, often known as Beeple.

10KTF is a browser-based NFT sport that enables gamers to outfit heroes with crafted objects and loadouts so as to full missions. Missions reward gamers with APE cash, badges, supplies, and free airdrops.

The sport additionally intends to incorporate many objects that may very well be worn by an avatar sooner or later; pairs of socks and backpacks are standard objects from the sport’s assortment. Till now, followers have been left to surprise what Metaverse platform will function this stuff. Now that the acquisition has been introduced, some followers have begun to take a position that 10KTF objects might develop into wearable inside Yuga Labs’ as-yet-unreleased Otherside metaverse ecosystem.

A thread published on the 10KTF official Twitter channel on Nov. 14 confirmed photos of the 10KTF hero, Wagmi-San, consuming an elixir that was beforehand featured within the Otherside trailer. The ultimate publish within the thread is a retweet from the Otherside’s channel, which says “welcome to the Otherside, Wagmi-San.”

Welcome to the Otherside, Wagmi-san. pic.twitter.com/cNCNTqOd44

— Othersidemeta (@OthersideMeta) November 14, 2022

As soon as the acquisition is accomplished, the corporate mentioned that Beeple will probably be employed as an advisor for Yuga Labs.

Again in March, YugaLabs introduced that it was buying each the Cryptopunks and Meebits NFT collections from the nonfungible pioneers at Larval Labs. On the time, Larval Labs co founders Matt Corridor and John Watkinson mentioned that, although they weren’t becoming a member of Yuga as a part of the deal, “we noticed in [Yuga Labs] the ability set and experience on this area that we have been lacking.”