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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AMD GPUs might not be the best for gaming but great for mining blocks, it's profitable for AMD, of course they will push new block chain use cases, however far fetched. They also aim to capture more market shares in data centers, super computing arrays and consoles, not just HEDT/desktop PC.
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Seems to me like streaming from decentralized source. But could be just having to download games through it, instead of having one huge server, I guess.
Not a super expert on "block chain" but no, I'm 99.99% sure it can't be used for that.
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
It can't well, it shouldn't be used like this either. If u want peer to peer data transfer use bittorrent. A block chain needs to download the entire chain to work properly, that makes for a really bad download platform.
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I guess DRM could be implemented to check over a blockchain meaning u don't depend on a central server that could go down a few years after launch. I rather buy games without DRM but could be an interesting option.
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You score teh pointz while you mine us teh coinz......I kid, but they are pretty sparse on details of what they will actually do. "Synergizing paradigms and actualizing high-performance e-solutions" is often talk for "waste a bunch of money on a project that won't pan out".......that may not be the case, but there is a lot of executive speak there.
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I see it more along the lines of documenting actual purchases versus pirated versions. Game is only activated if blockchain is verified. Discount key sites will be sol. G2A's steep discount offerings are coming to a close when this becomes reality.
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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.".
Blockchain is the underlying technology thats used by Crypto Currency, however it does not necessarily have to mean thats all it can ever be used for.
Blockchain in general is a method to authenticate transactions without a central authority, creating a distributed transaction ledger.
It could be used for all sorts of other things, but I still don't really see the gaming connection either way.