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The kingdom is currently diversifying its economy away from oil and turning to new opportunities, such as gaming and Web3. Saudi Arabia has ramped up its economic diversification efforts driven by its ambitious Vision 2030.  In a bid to diversify its economy away from a dependence on oil, the kingdom has embraced emerging technologies, such as blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), and tapped into booming markets like gaming. But while the country has yet to leave a significant mark in the global game and AI development, the ripples of its investments in the gaming sector could extend far beyond — at least, that’s what Web3 experts say. “Based on our work and communications that we have, Saudi [Arabia] is very, very interested in Web3,” Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu told Cointelegraph. Given the kingdom’s partnerships with entities such as The Sandbox and even Animoca, Siu sees that there’s an effort from Saudi to venture into the new iteration of the internet. The executive...

As part of the deal, Square Enix will develop games on Oasys’ PoS network, joining the likes of Sega, Double Jump, Bandai Namco and Ubisoft. Square Enix, the Japanese game developer behind the beloved Final Fantasy franchise, has signed on as a node validator for blockchain gaming project Oasys, with the duo also teaming up to create blockchain games. The move has predictably been met with criticism from some crypto- and NFT-hating members of the gaming community, irritated that the firm is continuing to double down its focus on blockchain tech. In a Monday announcement, Oasys revealed that Square Enix had jumped on board to be the project’s 21st node validator, taking up the final slot of initial validators. Moving forward, the duo will also team up to develop new games on Oasys’ EVM compatible proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain, which hopes to become a hub for Triple-A quality games with play-to-earn (P2E) integrations. Square Enix joins a host of big names in gaming to partner with O...

Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal says that speculation has been both the “boon and bane of crypto,” but genuine use cases will eventually rise to the surface. Sandeep Nailwal, the co-founder of the Ethereum scaling platform Polygon, believes Web3 gaming will eventually become one of the biggest drivers of mass crypto adoption. In a May 25 Ask Me Anything (AMA) in the r/India community on Reddit, Nailwal was asked what he sees as some genuine at- scale “real life” use cases for blockchain other than trading and payments. In response, Nailwal stated: “I think gaming is the largest scale opportunity for crypto," adding: “There are some top games launching in Web3 in the next 6-18 months and it would be very interesting to see if some of them are able to crack the crypto code. Last year itself there was $2 billion+ in funding for Web3 games.” “Polygon combined with its ecosystem players like IMX [Immutable X] got the lion's share in terms of those funded games. Fingers crossed...

Learn how to become a game developer with the help of ChatGPT, including learning programming among other things. As an artificial language (AI) language model, ChatGPT can provide some guidance on how to become a game developer, but it cannot offer a comprehensive or personalized learning path. Here are some ways you can utilize ChatGPT to become a game developer: Develop your programming skills Game development requires strong programming skills, so start by learning programming languages such as C++, Java or Python. One can take online courses or tutorials to learn the basics of programming and practice writing code. Here is an example of a Python code to create a simple “guess the number” game, where the player tries to guess a random number between 1 and 100: The above code uses the built-in random module to generate the number and keeps track of the number of guesses the player makes. The main game loop continues until the player guesses the correct number, at which point the pr...