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Kongregate.io will hit open beta later this year with NFT games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Kongregate, a 15-year-old free-to-play game platform that MTG owns, has unveiled Kongregate.io, a new web gaming portal featuring games that use nonfungible tokens (NFTs).

Launching in open beta later this year, Kongregate.io is a celebration of Kongregate’s 15 years in the gaming space and redefines what a web gaming platform is for today’s market. The web game publishing business has changed a lot, and so Kongregate is changing with the times, said CEO and chief financial officer Markus Lipp 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.