Maze Theory and Pluto Digital Joint Venture Creates New Blockchain Studio ‘EMERGENT GAMES’ with £4m Investment

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Today, brand-new gaming blockchain and metaverse studio Emergent Games announces its formation as part of a joint venture between the London-based digital entertainment studio Maze Theory and crypto technology and operations business Pluto Digital.

The joint venture combines two dynamic forces from blockchain technology and immersive gaming to form a business at the forefront of the new decentralised gaming sector. 

Maze Theory comprises industry veterans from leading global games and entertainment companies and has released critically acclaimed games across virtual reality, PC, mobile and console, including: Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins (mobile and console)and Doctor Who: The Edge of Time (VR) with Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom (VR) launching soon.

Pluto Digital is a crypto technology company with market-leading expertise across blockchain, decentralised finance (DeFi), metaverse technologies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Pluto has three primary business units: Pluto DeFi which creates leading DeFi applications and tokens, Pluto Metaverse which creates metaverse technologies and tokens, and Pluto V which invests globally in leading web3 and NFT projects. The company has a team of 16 tech engineers.

Pluto will provide an investment pipeline for the new joint venture and has invested £4m as part of the deal to enable the studio’s growth and consolidate its expertise in VR.

With a ‘game first’ philosophy, Emergent Games will offer players high quality, high production value games, jargon-free and easy to pick up and play. It’s ambition is to bring free-to-play mechanics to the blockchain gaming space, offering players the option to