Bandai Namco—the Japanese game publisher behind titles like Elden Ring, Dark Souls as well as retro classics like Tekken and Pac-Man—is continuing to conduct research and development in the mobile blockchain gaming sector for the Asia market.

Bandai Namco’s SVP of Corporate Development Karim Farghaly shared his stance on blockchain’s potential role in video games—as well as what the studio is exploring in the world of crypto—in an interview with Decrypt at the Esports and Gaming Business Summit in Las Vegas this week.

Farghaly, who’s worked under Bandai Namco’s American division for over eight years, shared that the publisher is looking into how blockchain integrations can fit into its mobile-focused business model.

“We’ve dabbled internally with researching how Web3 infrastructure could work,” Farghaly told Decrypt. “From an Asia point of view, I work very closely with a team in Tokyo through our corporate planning that thinks about these things and the differences between the Western market and the Asian market when it comes to Web3.”

“Web3 is definitely something that doesn’t have the backlash that gamers feel in the West in Asia,” Farghaly added. “I think that most likely,

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