Weekly Digest

February continues to flourish as Gunzilla's Off The Grid is added to the waitlist for a release on Xbox - a major console launch for a blockchain game. Riot Games' free-to-play mega shooter Valorant enables users to link Web3 wallets, accessing 8 million-plus players. Illuvium reveals the Public Open Beta plan of its Illuvial Hunting Prototype in Q2 2024. Kart racer Oh Baby Kart sells a huge bag of NFT assets. MMORPG MapleStory Universe releases teasers suggesting NFT integration and a token is coming.

Also in our weekly digest:

• Spellborne uses Sequence's Wallet As A Service offering

• Gangster Arena is the first game by GGuncharted studio

• GALA Founders Nodes is looking to reward supporters

• Battle.tech combines SocialFi, gaming and tournaments

• Treasure to launch a Treasure Chain on Arbitrum

• Yat Siu, points to mass adoption of crypto gaming in the Web3 space

• Overworld raises $10M seed funding for its RPG

• Spike's Waypoint Gaming community announces Sequence partnerships

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Web3 Gaming News of the Week🎮

• Off The Grid (OTG) has secured a spot on the Xbox waitlist, marking the first major console release for Crypto Gaming

• Valorant integrates Web3 wallet into the massive esports game accessible across 200 countries with 8M+ players

• Illuvium has announced its Illuvial Hunting Prototype, set to release in Q2 2024 via a Public Open Beta

• Oh Baby Kart NFT sale is over the game sold $150K in assets

• MapleStory Universe has been releasing a series of teasers, looks like NFTs and a new currency are coming

• Star Atlas demands a powerful gaming setup to handle its high-fidelity graphics and gameplay

• Sequence announces exciting new partnership with Spellborne, the web3 MMORPG

• Alien Worlds developer Dacoco has announced the launch of Battlefleet Armageddon

• Bladerite, a AAA game within the Solana ecosystem, has launched its mobile version

• GGuncharted studio announces Gangster Arena a mobile game featuring gang wars, game theory and risky earning

• Supervillain Labs and Aptos Labs are partnering to introduce innovative blockchain games

• Aptos and STAN have partnered to launch an eSports-focused blockchain platform in India

• Binance has announced Pixels on its 46th project on Binance Launchpool

• Horizon has integrated its web3 gaming wallet solution into Mon Studios' Spellborne

• Mastercard has launched a Web 3.0-based trivia game for the Uefa Champions League

• Com2uS is partnering with Oasys blockchain to develop web3 games in Japan

• Sequence announces partnership with Waypoint Gaming, Spike's creative gaming community and platform

• Yuga Labs is facing scrutiny over exorbitant gas fees associated with its Ape-themed Metaverse, Otherside

• Immutable announce they are partnering with Pixelmon

• DFZ Labs, the creators of Deadfellaz and RIP TCG, has launched "Bits," a "supercharged" NFT game incubator

• Gala Games launches a web3 social media platform called Rep on GalaChain

• GALA Founders Nodes is voting on a proposal to introduce a referral system that rewards supporting the network's growth

• Battle.tech, an Avalanche-based app, is combining the concept of SocialFi with gaming

• Blocklords has announced an airdrop of 300,000 LRDS tokens for players and NFT holders

• Tarochi Games is set to launch on the Xai Mainnet

• Haunted Space announces partnerships with Beam, Merit Circle and Avax

Rampant activity within Ronin this week

Origins Season 7 Mystic Era has started, featuring a $200,000 prize pool. Additionally, Fight League and MIXI joined Ronin, adding three new games. The Ronin Network's RON token was also listed on Binance. Separately, Pixels announced it will phase out its BERRY token and shift focus to its new PIXEL token, which will launch on Binance Launchpool. Furthermore, Ronin enabled new bridge features for transferring ERC20 and ERC721 tokens. In gaming updates, Wild Forest Season 4 kicked off with premium battle pass quests.

• Major gaming tokens like The Sandbox and Immutable are set to unlock $175 million in tokens within weeks

• Epic Games is set to launch 20 blockchain-powered games, including MMORPGs, RPGs, city-builders, and TCGs

• Wild Forest Season 4: The Power of Leaderboard is now live

• Outlier Ventures has announced the first cohort of the Futureverse Base Camp Accelerator Program

• Champions Ascension is hosting a 10-day raffle event starting February 16th, offering prizes worth over $15,000

• 9VRSE, creator of Kitty Inu, has received an Arbitrum grant to launch their battle royale racing game, KittyKart

• MixMob is a web3 gaming platform on Solana, combining culture with a card strategy racing game

• SphereOne and Rarible are partnering to create a solution for web3 gaming and crypto payments

• Unity's VR/AR lead joins Ozone platform, enabling open metaverse at scale and AI

• Treasure plans to launch a Treasure Chain built on Arbitrum, using its existing MAGIC token for gas

Web3 Gaming Trends 🚀

• Gala Games has implemented a dynamic halving system to regulate the supply of its $GALA token

• Playtoo, a cross-platform Web3 P2E ecosystem, aims to bring beloved Web2 games into the Web3 era without barriers

• The Web3 gaming industry continues to attract investments, with blockchain gaming projects attracting $2.9 billion in 2023

• Animoca's CEO, Yat Siu, discusses the growing mass adoption of crypto gaming in the Web3 space

Web3 Funding News 💸

• Overworld has raised $10 million in a seed funding round for its first web3 free-to-play action-RPG, Overworld

• Ultiverse, an AI-powered platform for Web3 gaming production and publishing, has raised $4 million at a $150 million evaluation

• Mystery Society raised $3M in a Seed Round, backed by Shima and other VCs

• Chris Heatherly, former NBCUniversal gaming unit head, has secured $3 million in funding for his new venture

• Ginger Joy, a Web3 studio spinoff from Matchingham Games, secured $1.26 million in a pre-seed round

• Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow has raised $3 million to develop crypto games

• PitchBook's Q4 2023 Gaming Report shows that gaming startups raising between $900 million and $1.3 billion over the last five quarters

Alpha Test, Early Access & Hands-On Gaming ⚒️

Tarochi first game to launch on Xai mainnet, 15th Feb

Champions Ascension‘s $15,000 The Emperor’s Legendary Crystals event, 16th Feb

PIXEL token listing on Binance, 19th Feb

Cosmik Battle early access launches, 20th Feb

Shardbound playtest pre-reg now open on Discord 21st Feb

Synergy Land land sale and mainnet launch, 22nd Feb

Midnight Heist first public playtest, 25th Feb

Delabs’ RPG Metabolt mints first NFTs, 26th Feb

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