NFT Game Pixelmon Attempts Comeback After $70M ‘Horrible’ Art Reveal
Perhaps no project was a greater sign of the NFT world’s excess and speculative frenzy earlier this year than Pixelmon, a project that raised $70 million by selling NFTs that promised to deliver a Pokémon-esque experience—and then unveiled ragged artwork that was widely panned and yielded memes aplenty.
A Pixelmon founder even called the art reveal a “horrible mistake.”. Several months later, the Ethereum-based game project is staging a comeback. Today, Pixelmon announced a new leadership team and an overhauled roadmap following the recent release of upgraded artwork, which turned the blocky, Minecraft-inspired models into more polished, smoothed-out 3D creatures.
