Encryption and She denied The gaming space has become busier than ever lately, with notable games starting to release, token drops piling up, and a seemingly constant array of other things happening at all times. It's a lot to take in!
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Our Weekend Roundup breaks down the top stories from the past week, along with some other tidbits you might have missed. We also feature some of our original stories from the week.
Biggest news
Parallel Development Colony: The team behind The buzzy parallel NFT card game on Ethereum And a base He doesn't rest on his laurels. On Thursday, Parallel Studios dropped a detailed report on Colony, its AI-driven “survival simulator” — and there's a twist: it will Run on Solana. The game will revolve around player-owned AI “agents” that play autonomously in a 3D world and may or may not respond to your commands. It seems ambitious.
You can find more details at Our news coverage Or through the whitepaper itself, but you need to know this: Parallel's PRIME token has been used on Ethereum It rose by 33% over the past week Several other gaming tokens also fell, hitting a new all-time high on Sunday afternoon.
Prices rise and fall: Last weekend, many gaming codes It saw rocket gains. Last week, most of them calmed down and corrected, as a quick glance CoinGecko's GameFi Category offers. There has been a lot of red over the past seven days. But in addition to the rise of PRIME, Ethereum gaming network Ronin He saw her RON token rises to a new all-time high Midweek after more than two years.
The airdrop craze continues: Another week, another batch of games and gaming projects preparing to drop tokens and asking players to participate and earn money. com. BlockGames (BLOCK) is the biggest in the last week or so, based on Twitter momentum, while long-running metaverse games Upland has Launched the “Share and Build” campaign. About the imminent Ethereum token launch.
And upcoming ones like Overwatch Solana Hero Shooter Nyan Heroes Its Airdrop campaign is generating buzz ahead of the game's Epic Games Store early access launch later this month. DappRadar's February industry report credited the drop-and-play boom with helping 20% higher fuel In active gaming wallets last month.
MapleStory on AVAX: South Korean gaming giant Nexon revealed early last week that it will be launching its own MapleStory Universe games Using avalanche Instead of the Ethereum Scaler Polygon, as previously announced. MapleStory, a massive online game that has been around for two decades, is now coming to the world of cryptocurrency gaming via a dedicated Avalanche subnet.
ICYMI
- We got our first tease of “Ready Player One” is inspired by the Readyverse Last week, thanks to a trailer for “OPEN,” a battle royale shooting experience being created within the platform.
- MetalCore plans to launch Ethereum mech Open beta launches in May on Unchangeable zkEVM, with the game code potentially dropping at the same time. Studio369 has raised $5 million in new funding to help facilitate the rollout.
- almost With a value of 250 million dollars Of the main gaming codes – incl pixel (pixel), ApeCoin (APE), PRIME, and Immutable (IMX) — will open before the end of March.
- NFT mobile shooter MadWorld Records opened for the Early Access period while developer Carbonated announced an $11 million funding round.
- It was by Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard Twitter/X account hacked on Thursday to ditch the unofficial ATVI token. Didn't find many merchants.
- Notcoin, the viral clicking game on Telegram, launched a campaign last week to Distribution of 100,000 toncoins (worth more than $400,000) in addition to millions of in-game coins.
- Launched by Aptos Laboratories GameStack Development Kit last week to help make it easier to develop cryptocurrency games on Aptos — with the help of Google Cloud.
- Meanwhile, the team behind the Polkadot network announced the integration of a new SDK with the Unity game engine, as well as plans to hold a game jam/hackathon with the Blockchain Gaming Alliance.
- Ronin Network announced on Friday that it has done so It has ended its partnership with ACT Games And that Zoid's Wild Arena Other ACT IP will not run on the Ethereum scale.
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Here are some of our original stories from last week that we think are worth reading this weekend:
