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AMD and Industry Partners to Develop New Blockchain-based Gaming Platforms
AMD joins Blockchain Game Alliance, and partners with Robot Cache and ULTRA to promote the development and proliferation of blockchain-based PC gaming.
AMD) today announced that it has joined the Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA) and forged partnerships with leading technology providers to help promote the development and proliferation of new blockchain-powered gaming platforms.
AMD also announced partnerships with leading blockchain technology providers, Robot Cache, which launched their online gaming marketplace in June, and ULTRA, which plans to launch its online gaming marketplace in the coming months. Designed to provide optimal cryptographic compute performance with AMD Ryzen™ processors and AMD Radeon™ graphics cards, these marketplaces will provide gamers with new opportunities to buy, sell and share digital video games, as well as offer efficient, new distribution channels for publishers. In addition, Robot Cache will use secure, high-performance AMD EPYC™ processors in the back-end servers powering its platform, and ULTRA will use AMD EPYC™ processors for its blockchain to facilitate block producing.
“Blockchain technology brings broader choice, security and flexibility to both gamers and publishers,” said Joerg Roskowetz, Head of Blockchain Technology, AMD. “Next-generation blockchain game platforms will give gamers access to exclusive online content, and provide new ways for them to truly own it. They will also provide game publishers with new channels to distribute digital game content.”
“The Blockchain Game Alliance is gathering some of the world’s top blockchain innovators and content developers to bring players the best of what this technology has to offer,” said
Leading the Blockchain Gaming Charge
Providing incredible compute performance and security for peer-to-peer transactions, AMD is helping to enable the next generation of blockchain-based gaming platforms via:
- Blockchain Innovation – AMD is at the forefront of the blockchain evolution, providing the underlying compute technology to enable a broad range of new blockchain-powered applications, services and use cases spanning industries ranging from gaming and cloud computing to the
Internet of Things , healthcare, and others. - Efficient, High-performance CPUs and GPUs – AMD is in a unique position to offer the best combination of high-performance CPUs and GPUs for demanding blockchain workloads.
- Robust Security – Designed to address today’s increasingly complex and sophisticated security threats, AMD Secure Technology puts protection right on the processor providing an additional layer of robust security.
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#5741907 Posted on: 12/16/2019 10:48 AM
The way I read it due to the guru3d's article and the one @cryohellinc linked, I guess they want to put the blockchain into transactions, be it buying games (launching yet another store front for that), lootboxes, or other microtransactions, documented by the blockchain. In that, I understand why they want to do it, security, no frauding with buying skins on their marketplace etc.
But does one need that? I wouldn't. Certainly I would not make use of any of the qualities I see in that.
And more on, imagine you have to calculate the blockchain for buying a CS skin down the road... yeah in 3 days it's available since the server still has to calculate the blockchain behind it? Or a game being unlocked only after the blockchain's calculated?
Download a game in a blockchain for what use or advantage compared to current states? Doesn't make any sense.
Not that they use blockchain tech to secure game assets and hashes to see if people cheated (documented in the blockchain), but they try to force it into a payment system... again. The only relation to AMD is because they supply the server hardware... which is practically no connection to the blockchain gaming at all... even calling it gaming is at it's best, marketing bs because it's only gaming related content with blockchain payment.
The way I read it due to the guru3d's article and the one @cryohellinc linked, I guess they want to put the blockchain into transactions, be it buying games (launching yet another store front for that), lootboxes, or other microtransactions, documented by the blockchain. In that, I understand why they want to do it, security, no frauding with buying skins on their marketplace etc.
But does one need that? I wouldn't. Certainly I would not make use of any of the qualities I see in that.
And more on, imagine you have to calculate the blockchain for buying a CS skin down the road... yeah in 3 days it's available since the server still has to calculate the blockchain behind it? Or a game being unlocked only after the blockchain's calculated?
Download a game in a blockchain for what use or advantage compared to current states? Doesn't make any sense.
Not that they use blockchain tech to secure game assets and hashes to see if people cheated (documented in the blockchain), but they try to force it into a payment system... again. The only relation to AMD is because they supply the server hardware... which is practically no connection to the blockchain gaming at all... even calling it gaming is at it's best, marketing bs because it's only gaming related content with blockchain payment.
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#5741911 Posted on: 12/16/2019 10:55 AM
BINGO!
I won with the diagonal row:
Next-Gen - Crypto - Blockchain - Innovation - Security
What do I get?
BINGO!
I won with the diagonal row:
Next-Gen - Crypto - Blockchain - Innovation - Security
What do I get?
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#5741925 Posted on: 12/16/2019 11:44 AM
I cannot see why any gamer would need or want this!
I cannot see why any gamer would need or want this!
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#5741932 Posted on: 12/16/2019 12:08 PM
So the company infamous for making 300W+ GPUs teams up with professional energy wasters...
So the company infamous for making 300W+ GPUs teams up with professional energy wasters...
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Having read multiple articles on the topic - information is vague at best all over the place. Personally, I think it's bad news overall.
Here is an example of a more or less decent article.
I think in reality, this all will fall down to more gambling / tick boxes in game such as "use your PC resources to generate Call of FortLeagueField Coin which you can spend on amazing skins e.t.c.".
I highly doubt anyone will use this for improvement of security / reliability / performance / distribution of resources. Most likely outcome and goal of all this will be - monetization.
yeah, I don't see any decent outcome of it.
Best outcome would be developers being able to publish their games by using blockchain?
Blockchain basically replaces database that platforms like Steam has to know who owns what.
Yet, there have to be some sort of platform... Guess we gonna have millions of them, all accessing the same chainblock..... Just like bitcoins