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  • 8Bit Creatives becomes the talent partner of DreamHack 2022

    8Bit Creatives becomes the talent partner of DreamHack 2022

    Mumbai: 8Bit Creatives has become the official talent partner for DreamHack 2022, India’s largest esports festival, which will take place in Hyderabad from 4 to 6 November.

    The global gaming festival is taking place in India for the first time since the pandemic. The event will feature an exciting set of live events and activities over three days that will bring together speakers from some of the most renowned brands, esports pro players, fans, and gamers from across the country under one roof. It promises to give fans an unrivalled experience of the festival that is unimaginable.

    This collaboration will be a great experience for the fans as well as the industry, which stands to interact and learn from the experts in the esports fraternity and grow with it.

    Speaking of this partnership, 8Bit Creatives CEO & founder Animesh Agarwal said, “It’s funny how some stories have their beginnings, twists and turns, and surprise endings. Participating in the first DreamHack event back in 2018, was the inception point of 8Bit Creatives, and now we have indeed come full circle, as the official talent management partner for India’s biggest gaming festival. 8Bit Creatives and NODWIN Gaming have always worked together to grow gaming in India. We envision this partnership as being a celebration of esports fans, players, and creators. Truly, this is big—DreamHack 2022, here we come!”

    NODWIN Gaming co-founder Akshat Rathee added, “DreamHack is a dream festival for the esports community where like-minded people get together and celebrate their love and passion for esports. We’ve put together an action-packed three-day itinerary in Hyderabad and are delighted to have on board our talent partner 8Bit Creatives, who will help spread the word not only among our live audience but also to the world at large!”

    8Bit Creatives co-founder Lokesh Jain said, “8Bit Creatives is built with the love of fans and we are really excited that our fan family is growing with India’s largest digital gaming festival—DreamHack. NODWIN Gaming has been making waves since its entry into the market. We share similar beliefs in providing the best to our fans, and we are really excited to celebrate all the gaming fun at the event and revolutionise the esports market together.”

  • Loco launches ‘Legends’, all-new NFT platform for esports

    Loco launches ‘Legends’, all-new NFT platform for esports

    Mumbai: Live game streaming and esports platform Loco has announced the country’s latest NFT platform for esports ‘Legends,’ The decision was taken as part of its commitment to democratising gaming entertainment in the country.

    Users will be able to own and trade esports collectibles on the platform, boosting their fandom and giving them the chance to feel like esports scouts for a day. Legends paves the way for decentralisation for game developers.

    Loco has also inked exclusive collaborations with major esports tournament organisers including Villager esports and Upthrust esports to ensure that its data plan has the finest in class data flow.

    Loco has also built a proprietary data system that powers Legends. This system leverages the data generated by the large number of tournaments empowered by Loco.  

    Loco Legends launches exclusive partnerships with the most popular esports teams in India including 8bit, s0ul, Godlike, Revenant, Blind, and XO among others. These top Indian esports teams are the category dominators in popular games like BGMI, FreeFire Max, and Valorant, and provide fans with the most credible NFT experience. Loco has a 52 million-strong community of gamers.

    The first asset on Loco Legends will be NFT esports cards. This offering combines non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and free to play esports fantasy gaming. Users can purchase NFT trading cards allowing them to buy and sell cards amongst each other and also participate in free-to-play fantasy pools. By collecting, owning, and trading these limited-edition digital collectibles, Loco is designing a unique fan experience, where users can truly get closer to their heroes, build real world connections, and enhance their watching experience. The NFTs will be limited in number and unique to each owner. Loco is the first to build a large-scale consumer platform of this sort in India, that is embracing NFTs & web3.

    Founders Anirudh Pandita and Ashwin Suresh shared, “We are passionate about the potential of web3 to empower creators and create new fan experiences in the gaming community. Gamers are the earliest adopters of new technology and our community has shown a strong acceptance for these initiatives. We are excited about providing users an easy-to-use experience so that they can enjoy the power of web3 without dealing with the complexities that other products are often plagued with. We are also pumped about the partners we are bringing with us and the experiences that these partnerships will help us deliver to users. Our team firmly believes that this is a unique opportunity to unlock a new paradigm in gaming and this product is the first step in our roadmap.”

    The platform is currently in beta and will be made public in July 2022. As a part of this launch, the top 1,000 users that waitlist themselves on the platform will get access to free NFTs worth approximately Rs 500 each. On sharing the waitlist link with friends and family, and onboarding more users through their referrals, users will have a chance to jump the queue by 100 spots, allowing them to move higher up in the waitlist and increasing their chances of winning a free NFT. The platform is now live for audiences to access.