This Week in Crypto Games: PRIME Pumps on 'Parallel' Maker’s Solana Game News, Airdrop Mania Continues

The crypto and NFT gaming area is busier than ever currently, what with outstanding video games beginning to launch, token airdrops piling up, and a seemingly fixed array of different issues taking place always. It’s lots to soak up!

Fortunately, Decrypt’s GG is throughout it. And for those who want a fast technique to get caught up on the newest strikes round crypto video video games, we’re debuting This Week in Crypto Video games.

Our weekend roundup serves up the largest information from the previous week, together with a couple of different tidbits you may need missed. We additionally showcase a couple of of our authentic tales from the week.

Greatest information

Parallel dev’s Colony: The group behind the buzzy Parallel NFT card recreation on Ethereum and Base isn’t resting on its laurels. On Thursday, Parallel Studios dropped a meaty whitepaper for Colony, its generative AI-driven “survival simulation”—and there’s a twist: It’ll run on Solana. The sport will revolve round player-owned AI “brokers” that play independently in a 3D world and should or could not reply to your instructions. Sounds bold.

Yow will discover extra element in our information protection or through the whitepaper itself, however know this: Parallel’s PRIME token on Ethereum has spiked 33% over the previous week as many different gaming tokens have fallen, hitting a brand new all-time excessive Sunday afternoon.

Costs rise and funky: Final weekend, many gaming tokens noticed skyrocketing features. Within the final week, most of them have cooled down and corrected, as a fast look at CoinGecko’s GameFi class reveals. There’s been a number of crimson over the past seven days. However along with PRIME’s surge, Ethereum gaming community Ronin noticed its RON token spike to a brand new all-time excessive value midweek after greater than two years.

Airdrop mania continues: One other week, one other batch of video games and gaming tasks readying their token drops and asking gamers to hop in and earn. BlockGames (BLOCK) is arguably the largest within the final week or so, based mostly on the Twitter momentum, whereas long-running metaverse video games Upland has launched a “Share and Construct” marketing campaign round its impending Ethereum token launch.

And the upcoming Overwatch-like Solana hero shooter Nyan Heroes is constructing buzz for its airdrop marketing campaign forward of the sport’s Epic Video games Retailer early entry launch later this month. DappRadar’s February trade report credited the play-to-airdrop growth with serving to to gasoline a 20% spike in energetic gaming wallets final month.

MapleStory on AVAX: South Korean gaming large Nexon revealed early final week that it’s going to launch its MapleStory Universe video games utilizing Avalanche as a substitute of Ethereum scaler Polygon, as beforehand introduced. MapleStory is a big on-line recreation that has endured for 20 years, and now it’s coming to the crypto gaming world through a devoted Avalanche subnet.

ICYMI

We acquired a primary tease of the “Prepared Participant One”-inspired Readyverse final week, due to a trailer for “OPEN,” a battle royale shooter expertise being constructed inside the platform.
Ethereum mech shooter MetalCore is planning to launch its open beta in Could on Immutable zkEVM, with the sport’s token probably dropping on the identical time. Studio369 raised $5 million in recent funding to assist facilitate the rollout.
Almost $250 million price of main gaming tokens—together with Pixels (PIXEL), ApeCoin (APE), PRIME, and Immutable (IMX)—can be unlocked earlier than the top of March.
Cellular NFT shooter MadWorld opened up registrations for its early entry interval whereas developer Carbonated introduced a $11 million funding spherical.
Name of Responsibility maker Activision Blizzard had its Twitter/X account hacked on Thursday to shill an unofficial ATVI meme token. It didn’t discover many merchants.

Notcoin, the viral clicker recreation on Telegram, launched a marketing campaign final week to hand out 100,000 Toncoin (over $400K price) together with hundreds of thousands of in-game cash.
Aptos Labs launched the GameStack growth suite final week to assist make it simpler to develop crypto video games on Aptos—with assist from Google Cloud.
In the meantime, the group behind the Polkadot community introduced a brand new software program growth package integration with the Unity recreation engine, plus plans for a recreation jam/hackathon with the Blockchain Gaming Alliance.
The Ronin community introduced Friday that it has ended its partnership with ACT Video games and that Zoids Wild Enviornment and different ACT IP gained’t launch on the Ethereum scaler.