The integration of blockchain technology and sports gaming continues as an international football federation partnered with a well-known crypto-based gaming studio to create a new football game for mobile users.
Football enthusiasts eagerly await the blockchain-powered free soccer game set to release next year.
Reports said that FIFA Rivals will be similar to the NFL Rivals game which was also developed by Mythical Games and launched in April 2023.
Users of Apple’s iOS and Android smartphones can access the Polkadot-powered mobile soccer game.
Similarly, FIFA rivals will be built with the same technology and on the same Mythos blockchain.
According to the crypto gaming studio, FIFA Rivals will allow mobile gamers to manage their football clubs, saying that users can also compete against other players in “real-time” arcade gameplay.
A Mythical Games executive predicted that more than 100 million gamers would be attracted to play FIFA Rivals.
The crypto gaming CEO, John Linden, explained that over 100 million FIFA Rivals gamers is possible because a comparable mobile game, NFL Rivals, has more than 6 million sign-ups from a far narrower audience.
To contextualize this, the FIFA World Cup attracted around 5 billion people in 2022 while the NFL playoffs last year got an estimated 500 million viewers.
The FIFA-Mythical Games partnership is only one of the growing number of collaborations between cryptocurrency players and sporting associations, making more interactive and funnier experiences among fans.
The partnership adds to a growing trend of sporting associations partnering with blockchain gaming studios aimed at delivering fun and interactive experiences for fans.
One of the advantages of crypto-based games is that gamers can “own in-game assets and monetize them.”
The crypto gaming studio got its early success in Blankos Block Party. The company explained that it is a nonfungible token game that was transferred to Polkadot with at least 3 million monthly transactions.
The new mobile football game became a reality with the help of the Mythos Foundation launched in October 2022 which aimed to support new gamers and developers in the Mythical Games ecosystem.
Featured image from FIFA Rivals, chart from TradingView
