Worms publisher Team17 announces NFTs, gets pushback from Aggro Crab Games

Team17, the Worms creator is currently in NFT. This company is one the biggest video game publishers in U.K. and has announced it has partnered up with Reality Gaming Group, an U.K.-based Digital Asset Trading platform (DAT), to produce NFT collectibles. The collection will be based on the well-known artillery tactics series. This partnership has caused a lot of confusion between Reality Gaming Group and other game studios publishing under its banner.

Announced late yesterday, Team17 and Reality Gaming Group will collaborate on officially licensed NFT (“non-fungible token”) collectibles dubbed MetaWorms. Describing them as “unique, generative artwork” that will “encompass content from across the 26-year history of the beloved Worms franchise,” Team17 emphasized that the MetaWorms would be “high quality” and “low energy consuming” collectibles intended to give fans “the chance to own a unique piece of video game memorabilia,” a description presumably intended to preemptively head off commons criticisms regarding the environmental costs of creating and minting NFTs.

Team17’s announcement is the latest in a series of similar announcements by prominent game publishers, including Square Enix, Ubisoft, and Konami, intending to create NFTs based on their existing properties.