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Adrian Zmudzinski

Final Fantasy On A Blockchain? Square Enix President Says NFTs And Crypto Will Be Central To The Future Of Gaming

Yosuke Matsuda — president of Square Enix Holdings Co. Ltd. (OTC:SQNXF), the video game giant behind the "Final Fantasy" series — highlighted the role of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and blockchain technology in the future of gaming.

What Happened: Matsuda said during a recent interview with Yahoo Japan that — until now — most of Square Enix's games were offered to players as already finished products, but "there are a certain number of players in the world who want to contribute to making games more interesting, by creating new settings and ways of playing."

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