Vempire is building a Rome game on The Sandbox.
Vempire is building a Rome game on The Sandbox.
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Vempire will debut Roman era game in The Sandbox

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Vempire DDAO has announced it is developing Hack and Slash, a blockchain-based combat game set in ancient Rome within The Sandbox virtual world platform.

Lots of companies and investors have been buying plots of land in Animoca Brands’ The Sandbox. And now we’ll see what they build on it. This kind of game is a crucial test about whether NFT investors will build real games on their plots or just flip virtual land to other users.

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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.