Additional strengthening its ties with Japanese recreation firm Sega, Line’s web3 enterprise Line Next has unveiled the primary Sega-licensed blockchain title as a part of its DOSI undertaking.
Based mostly on Sega’s Rent a Hero, Line Next is engaged on Rent a Hero Z, including blockchain options to the unique motion RPG from 1991.
A primary glimpse of the sport can be showcased within the type of a theme music, which has been created by Sega, at its sales space in the course of the Tokyo Recreation Present 2024. A stay efficiency of the music is scheduled for twenty eighth September.
Rent a Hero Z will formally launch in 2025.
By way of Line Next, it’s raised $140 million for its mobile-based web3 video games platform DOSI. In July 2023, the corporate introduced a strategic partnership with Sega, entailing bringing a number of Sega IP to DOSI.
Following this, Line Next’s Finschia blockchain, which beforehand supported DOSI, introduced a merger with Kakao’s Klaytn community to type L1 blockchain Kaia. As for Sega Singapore, which is a subsidiary of Sega and the group steering its common web3 enterprise, it’s each a governance member and node validator of Kaia.