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Riders of Icarus is planning to put up its holiday decorations ahead of the pack when tomorrow’s patch rolls out on the live servers. The update will also set the stage for various in-game events happening in the blockchain MMORPG next month, including an ICA Day event scheduled for December 3rd along with a new daily login campaign and writ [...]
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Astellia, the failed MMORPG from Studio 8 & Barunson Games, has found new life as a play 2 earn blockchain MMORPG named 'Astel of Atra' or 'AoA' for short. The game uses its own governance token called Gelixir (GXR) which is based on the Polygon (MATIC) blockchain. Like other play to earn blockchain MMORPGs (Mir 4 comes to mind), Astel [...]
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Studio 8 has resurrected Astellia Online as a blockchain game called Astel of Atra a little over a year since the original game and its battle royale spinoff Astellia Royal shut down in the west. The game’s developers describe the newly relaunched game as a global NFT MMORPG and began pre-selling NFT Astels since spring and the new GELIXIR token [...]
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Open-Tibia MMORPG Ravendawn Online started closed beta testing earlier this week to a very good turnout, with over 2,000 players wanting to get in in the first few minutes after the server opened. That’s all well and good for its developer, Living Phoenix Entertainment, but the more important topic of this piece is the upcoming blockchain version of the sandbox [...]
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With the recent rise in the popularity of play-to-earn blockchain and NFT games, there’s no shortage of people trying to come up with various ways to earn cryptocurrencies or real-world money without putting in the effort. In Axie Infinity, this came in the form of scholarships where a person would buy multiple accounts and have other people play them for [...]
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When Valofe introduced play-to-earn mechanics in Riders of Icarus a few months ago, the studio also changed the way that players were able to purchase premium currency called GCoin. Instead of using real-world money, players needed to use cryptocurrency tokens called Karma Koin to buy GCoins that they can then use for in-game microtransactions. That’s now changed as the studio [...]
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Blockchain metaverse MMORPG Ragnarok Meta, not to be confused with the classic MMORPG of the same name, has reported huge losses even before the game has fully launched. According to its project head, Fanfaron, the game has suffered losses amounting to $1.83 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) after selling its position multiple times as cryptocurrency prices continued to drop all [...]
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Bloxmith, a crypto gaming company formed earlier this year, has begun Playtest 2 registrations for their first mobile game title, codenamed Project R. Project R is described as a mobile e-sports game with fast paced gameplay. Players build unique groups of fighters who then auto-battle on dynamic battlefields. Bloxmith promises Project R and future titles will not require an upfront [...]
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Despite the 'Bless' IP failing with Bless Online and Bless Unleashed the franchise seems to continue to expand. This time around the IP is being used to build a blockchain mobile MMO called Bless Global by the South Korean gaming firm Tigon Mobile, a subsidiary of Longtu Korea (which has developed Bless Eternal, Blast M, Mighty Arena, Kairos, Shout, and [...]
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While Valve has a strict policy against blockchain and play-to-earn games on Steam, Epic Games has no qualms about letting them in and its even giving them money. The American video game developer and publisher recently awarded blockchain racing game Torque Drift 2 with additional funding as part of its Epic MegaGrants program which could range anywhere from $5000 to [...]
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