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In recent months:

• Animoca Brands hired Michael Ephraim as head of partnership. He’s a former managing director of Sony Computer Entertainment.
• The company fully acquired German development studio Stryking, who own Football Stars. This game will now incorporate collectible NFTs centered around football players and clubs.
• Animoca became a partner, publisher and distributor for Lucid Sight. This studio has the MLB license, and has created a blockchain-powered collectible game about baseball called MLB Champions. They also created AR and VR games for PC and Playstation 4.
• They acquired a license to develop a Formula 1 blockchain game with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The game will be called F1 Delta Time, and the first version of the game will be released on May 10th 2019.
• Animoca partnered with WAX, which can be seen as the eBay for virtual items with over five million trades per day. User-generated items from the game The Sandbox can be sold on the WAX platform. Basically The Sandbox is a mobile blockchain game that follows the success of games like Terraria and Minecraft.
• In February the mobile tower defense game Crazy Defense Heroes globally launched as early access on Android. The game is a sequel to Crazy Kings, and reportedly they generate over one million dollars per month.

These six bullet points are all from announcements that happened in 2019.

Last year Animoca Brands got involved with Atari, and is now working on rebuilding Rollercoaster Tycoon Touch and Goon Squad, two existing mobile games, for use on the blockchain. This means gamers will be able to own virtual themepark rides and squad members, for example. The company has also partnered with Musicoin, a blockchain-powered music platform for mobile devices.