Xai Foundation said Peeking Duck Studios’ My Angry Yakuza Girlfriend will exclusively debut on the Xai blockchain.
The partnership will see the launch of social competitive Web3 game, My Angry Yakuza Girlfriend (MAYG), and all additional upcoming titles, exclusively on Xai.
The Xai Foundation in the Cayman Islands is a core contributor to the gaming-centric blockchain network, Xai.
My Angry Yakuza Girlfriend will be the first title to go live on Xai, bringing the 1990’s Ginza District Tokyo-inspired title to Xai’s growing gaming community. In the game, you play as a girlfriend who is heir to a Yakuza empire and is rescuing her game designer boyfriend.
“After three years of passion and dedication, we are extremely pleased to find a home on the Xai network that matches our goals for scale and impact in the space,” said Sinjin David Jung, founder and head game designer at Peeking Duck Studios. “Not only are they backed by proven great technology, but they are led by a native Web3 team that truly understands what mainstream adoption takes. Xai supports teams that are creating games that serve as a disruptive solution to the market.”
An original PC game developed for Web3, the game is a turn-based third-person shooter multiplayer game that aims to introduce a new social competitive gaming genre through the innovation of Web3.
My Angry Yakuza Girlfriend will have special global promotions to bring in competitive female gamers into this new genre. The dev team includes Lukasz Drozdek, former lead at Sega Secret Level Studios; Danny Pisano, former Bandai Namco casual games studio head; and Jung, former Asia regional director of Pokerstars.
“We are excited to embrace the unique and ambitious gaming selections from Peeking Duck Studios.,” said Soby, a core contributor to Xai, in a statement. “Our teams share a vision of scaling blockchain-based games to the masses and we’re confident that Peeking Duck’s suite of games offers our community members an experience that will cultivate a wide audience of gamers.”
“Our studio was waiting to build with a team dedicated to putting gamers first and in Xai Games we have found exactly what players are looking for,” said Drozdek, studio head of My Angry Yakuza Girlfriend, in a statement.
“We knew Xai was putting gamers first because our first conversation was all about whether or not the game will be fun and could scale. Our immediate goal now is becoming a flagship game to represent Xai Games,” added Danny Pisano, the lead producer of My Angry Yakuza Girlfriend.
My Angry Yakuza Girlfriend will have a final open two month playtest period before releasing their open beta by the year’s end. The studio has raised $4.5 million and it has 11 employees.