Gojira Labs is making Sprinft with aNFTs.
Gojira Labs is making Sprinft with aNFTs.
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Gojira Labs turns static NFTs into playable game characters with ‘animatronic NFTs’

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Game studio Gojira Labs has announced Animatronic non-fungible tokens (NFTs) so that game companies can take static NFTs and turn them into 2D animated playable game characters. The tech will debut in Gojira’s Sprinft running game using characters from well-known NFT collections.

The New York company hopes its aNFTs will disrupt the market for Web3 games by bringing games to NFTs rather than bringing NFTs to games, said Mark Soares, president of Gojira Labs, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.