When it comes to gaming, certain genres are always in vogue. Shooter RPGs. Survival games. Immersive action-adventure odysseys focused on exploration and discovery. And, of course, battle-based games that revolve around towering fighting machines known as mecha. This isn’t a surprise, of course. Talking robotics with cannons for arms have broad appeal, as evidenced by the success of the Transformers franchise, a series that has generated $4.86 billion at the global box office. Making it the 13th-highest-grossing movie franchise of all time. But what happens when mecha enters the metaverse? That’s a question a new blockchain-based gaming project wants to answer. Mecha-verse Massacre An adrenaline-pumping ARPG (Action Role-Playing Game) that leverages digital currency and NFTs to furnish players with endless earning opportunities, Mecha Morphing is set in a vast virtual world that represents Earth circa 2107. The climate doomsayers have been vindicated: the world is deluged by biblical floods, brutal snowstorms and searing heat waves. In this unforgiving milieu, a tyrant named Sarin has ascended to the throne. A sort of futuristic Leopold, Sarin has amassed precious resources (metals, fossil fuel, etc) for himself and his feudal lords while waging a cruel campaign against the general populace. Just to underscore his villainy, ol’ Sarin has an army of mass-produced cyborgs to do his bidding too. Luckily, a cast of cyberpunk rebel...
