Crypto Gaming, Blockchain, and Play to Earn News

MMO and Shooter Veterans Launch Distinct Possibility Studios with $30.5M Funding Round

July 4, 2025 John Silver Comments

Distinct Possibility Studios, a new game development studio founded by industry veterans, has secured over $30.5 million in funding. The investment round was led by Bitkraft Ventures and Brevan Howard Digital, with participation from several other firms, to support the studio's first project: REAPER ACTUAL, an open-world persistent shooter. The founders of Distinct Possibility Studios include names like John Smedley, [...]

Valhalla, FLOKI’s Play to Earn Browser MMORPG, Launches on Mainnet

July 1, 2025 John Silver Comments

Valhalla, the browser-based 'play to earn' MMORPG from FLOKI, officially launched on mainnet on June 30, 2025. This marks FLOKI’s first major foray into blockchain gaming, following over three years of development and a significant investment from its treasury. The game aims to bring Web3 mechanics to a wider audience by combining play-to-earn systems with accessible browser gameplay. Valhalla, as [...]

Delabs Games Unveils New Web3 Idle RPG ‘Ragnarok Libre’ with Player-Driven Economy

June 21, 2025 John Silver Comments

Delabs Games has launched the official website for Ragnarok Libre, its upcoming Web3 idle RPG set in the well-known Ragnarok universe. The game aims to blend classic RPG mechanics with modern blockchain elements, focusing on a player-driven in-game economy and easy access through Telegram mini-apps. As always, we remain skeptical. Ragnarok Libre aims to build on the legacy of the [...]

TOKYO BEAST Sets Global Launch Date, Announces $1 Million Championship Event

June 9, 2025 John Silver Comments

TOKYO BEAST, a new competitive 'play to earn blockchain game' from developer TOKYO BEAST FZCO, is set for a global release on June 9, 2025. Positioned as a strategy-driven title blending futuristic combat and blockchain elements. From the looks of it, the gameplay looks to be inspired by Axie Infinity / Pokemon. I am extremely skeptical about this one (as [...]

New Web3 MMO Axie Infinity: Altia's Legacy Unveiled

March 5, 2025 John Silver Comments

Sky Mavis, the folks behind Axie Infinity, announced a brand new MMO set in the Axie universe titled Axie Infinity: Altia's Legacy. The original Axie Infinity remains the biggest Web3 NFT game with $4 billion in transactions. While the original Axie was one of the few crypto gaming success stories, it wasn't a particularly in-depth, which is a problem for [...]

BitCraft Reiterates Crypto-Free Gameplay Amid A Surge In Interest From Crypto Traders

March 10, 2024 Marc Marasigan Comments

Clockwork Labs is making it clear once again that BitCraft is in no way associated with cryptocurrency, blockchain, Web 3, or NFTs despite its title. The upcoming survival crafting MMORPG is apparently seeing an uptick in interest after crypto trading platform Binance and other crypto-related platforms announced its Alpha release next month and the studio wants to set the record [...]

Axie Infinity’s Ronin Network Hacked Again, This Time For $9.2 Million Worth Of ETH

February 24, 2024 Marc Marasigan Comments

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NFT game Axie Infinity is in the limelight once again as it falls victim to another multi-million-dollar crypto heist. Like the $620 million heist of 2022, hackers were able to gain access to the Ronin Network allowing them to run off with roughly $9.5 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) from multiple personal wallets, two of which belonged to Jeff Zirlin, [...]

Magic To Master Resurfaces As A Web 3 MMORPG Launching Into Early Access This Month

February 12, 2024 Marc Marasigan Comments

The last we heard from Magic to Master was that its developer Laniatus was preparing to take Gameforge to court over the latter’s copyright complaint which resulted in the cancellation of the oriental MMORPG’s Kickstarter campaign. The DMCA complaint claims that Laniatus, who employed several former Gameforge developers, used stolen assets from Gameforge Metin 2. It’s unclear whether both parties [...]

GameStop Announces The Closure Of Its NFT Marketplace In Early February

January 15, 2024 Marc Marasigan Comments

History repeats seems to be repeating itself as GameStop is once again fading into irrelevance following a brief moment in the spotlight in January 2021 when its stock prices skyrocketed thanks to a pump-and-dump trading scheme organized through Reddit. The video game retail chain also dipped its toes in the cryptocurrency market with the opening of its NFT Marketplace in [...]

Pre-Registrations Now Open For Night Crows, WeMade’s New Blockchain MMORPG

January 15, 2024 Marc Marasigan Comments

South Korean video game developer WeMade has opened pre-registrations for yet another play-to-earn blockchain MMORPG called Night Crows. The medieval fantasy game runs on Unreal Engine 5 while the blockchain side is supported by the WeMix GameFi platform. This will allow players to mint their characters into NFTs that they can then sell online and earn seven different tokens that [...]

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