Traditional firms likely won't be leading the charge in the next generation o...

Traditional firms likely won't be leading the charge in the next generation o...

“I actually think the first big games that have multimillion persistent users daily — those will come from new startup studios," said William Quigley. Traditional ideas about gaming, coming from both the firms developing the games and the players themselves, could slow down adoption of Web3 games, according to WAX co-founder and CEO William Quigley. Speaking to Cointelegraph at a Web Summit panel in Portugal on Nov. 3, Quigley said “trying to build a video game using a blockchain is a pain in the ass,” clarifying that many of the products on the market are based on browsers but utilize....


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