Ubisoft Announces Ethereum NFT Mint Date for Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles

According to Decrypt, Ubisoft has revealed the Ethereum NFT mint date for its first original blockchain game, Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles. The company announced that its 'Warlords' will be available on December 18. Champions Tactics will offer a private mint for those added to its 'darklist' starting at 6am ET and will open the mint to the general public at 2pm ET on Monday. Unlike most NFT launches, Ubisoft is promising that 8,000 Champions Tactics Warlord NFTs will be free to mint. In the game, Warlords are pixel-style heroes with weapons and have been designed like social media profile picture (PFP) NFTs. Collectors will only need to pay Ethereum network gas fees to mint the NFTs, which can then be used as one's account avatar in-game. Holding a Warlord NFT in a crypto wallet will grant access to the game's next mint for its playable in-game characters. Warlord NFT owners will be able to mint five Champions Tactics characters for free at a later, yet-to-be-announced date. While the Warlords NFTs will be on Ethereum, the Champions Tactics game itself will be deployed on the Ethereum-compatible Oasys chain. A total of 9,999 Warlords NFTs will be minted, with another 1,000 given out to the Oasys community and 999 held back by Ubisoft for future marketing initiatives and giveaways. Champions Tactics is a player-versus-player tactical RPG with a dark fantasy aesthetic and is set to release on PC in early 2024. Ubisoft has also confirmed collaborations with the NFT gaming projects Pixelmon and CyberKongz, though the extent of each alliance is unclear.