GameStop opened his marketplace dedicated to NFTs Talked about for several months, the initiative is part of a wider modernization project by the company, which aims to move away from the retail model to focus more on digital products and services.
The GameStop marketplace is currently in beta. You can find it by following this link even if at the time of writing this news the site is inaccessible due to an unspecified configuration error.
The marketplace currently has a catalog of over 53,000 NFTs from 200 different collections. “The art is up to NFT standards, within minutes, scrolling through the site, I found some quirky cats and several collections of monkeys,” Jay Peters writes on The Verge.
It is possible to create an official GameStop wallet to collect and store NFTs and cryptocurrencies, but the site also supports some of the more popular alternatives such as MetaMask and WalletConncet.
Unlike what happens on other platforms, not all users can freely create and sell a collection of NFTs in the market. Interested artists or companies should send a request to GameStop, hoping it will be accepted.
GameStop announced plans to open an NFT marketplace in February this year. Those were different times, when the cryptocurrency market was still relatively healthy. “GameStop opened its store just in time to witness one of the most violent market crashes,” writes The Verge maliciously.
GameStop recently announced a series of layoffs. The staff reduction mainly affects the offices of the company’s headquarters and the editorial staff of Game Informer.
Source: Lega Nerd
