Iconic entertainment house Atari is partnering with The Sandbox (TSB) on the upcoming voxel-based blockchain version of its popular user-generated content and gaming platform.

In an declaration on March 27, blockchain startup Animoca Brands —  parent company of TSB Gaming — revealed that the collaboration will involve creating 3D voxel versions of popular Atari game properties. These include Asteroids, Centipede, Pong and RollerCoaster Tycoon.

Deficient gaming real estate

In its blockchain iteration, based on Ethereum, The Sandbox will offer users three new features shaped by the technology: a tool for building non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and in-game voxel assets, a marketplace for trading these assets, and a game maker tool for users to construct, share and monetize interactive games.

Nether the terms of the collaboration, Atari will receive big digital "estates" within The Sandbox gaming metaverse. These estates are scarce, digital spaces where gamers will take access to 3D voxelized versions of archetype Atari games.

Estates can be assembled from groupings of LAND tokens, which can besides be purchased by users to serve as locations for amalgam and launching independent gaming content.

166,464 LANDs in full will be made available in The Sandbox, and characteristic aslope in-game virtual assets and native SAND tokens.

Equally part of The Sandbox, a theme park-like metaverse volition also include a number of Atari game titles, aslope Atari-themed virtual attractions, buildings, and other objects. Users volition exist able to engage socially with Avatar characters and play collectively in immersive gaming experiences.

Collaborations and investments

As Cointelegraph has reported, the collaboration between Atari — developer of classic video games such as Tetris and Pac Man — and Animoca Brands has been long-standing.

Before this month, The Sandbox announced a host of big-name backers — Square Enix, B Cryptos, Mindfulness Capital, and True Global Ventures — for the upcoming tertiary presale of the game's virtual spaces (LANDs), scheduled for March 31.

To engagement, The Sandbox has had over forty million downloads and brought in over 1,300 Ether (ETH) with the first and second of its LAND presales.