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Mir 4 is easily the most popular blockchain based 'play to earn' MMO out there. It's also one of the only blockchain games that actually resembles a game. Many of the play to earn titles on the market right now are throwaway browser games with little to no actual gameplay, which is why Mir 4 has been so successful. Mir [...]
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Untamed Isles, a blockchain crypto MMORPG that raised NZ$ 840,994 (~$525,000) on Kickstarter, announced that the game is on "hiatus" after funds ran out. This bit of news arrives as the game was scheduled to begin early access on Steam on October 6th. That is no longer happening. Refunds are also not happening. While the developer's behind Untamed Isles didn't [...]
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The web3 blockchain MMO Blocklords announced that they're accepting pre-registrations. No word on an actual release date yet, but given the ambitious nature of the game it's likely far into the future. Blocklords bills itself as an MMO grand strategy game with play 2 earn and NFT elements. “What we’re trying to do is have the first MMO grand strategy [...]
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Richard Gariott's newest NFT MMO project finally has a name and it's 'Iron and Magic' and it bills itself as a 'Web 3.0 open world sandbox MMORPG' according to its sparse website. There's practically zero information about the gameplay and given the state of other crypto NFT games, there likely won't be any actual gameplay for years to come. Like [...]
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APB Reloaded developer Little Orbit will be taking a tentative step into the world of blockchain gaming in its upcoming online sci-fi first-person shooter Ships That Fight Underground, commonly referred to as STFU. The studio acknowledges the gaming community’s negative sentiments on Web3 and anything remotely related to blockchain or NFTs which is why they’ll be going with a hybrid [...]
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Back in March, play-to-earn pet battling game Axie Infinity was hacked and drained of cryptocurrency tokens worth over $600 million in what could be the biggest cryptocurrency heist in history. Following the hack, developer Sky Mavis was forced to shut down the system and freeze all user assets as they began their investigation into the matter. In a perfect example [...]
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If there’s one thing that you can count on when it comes to play-to-earn games, it’s that the value of their tokens is bound to crash sooner or later. This is largely due to the innate volatility of the cryptocurrency market and the problem of oversupply. Riders of Icarus, which became play-to-earn a few months ago, is now facing the [...]
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Kritika Global, the play-to-earn reboot of the Korean anime-styled fantasy MMORPG, has made its way to Steam but without any plans to add NFTs or blockchain features. This is due to Steam’s strict policy against blockchain and play-to-earn games, although I don’t really get why its developer, ALLM, decided to release the game on the platform when it was readily [...]
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Despite the backlash that Square Enix received when it announced its interest in blockchain gaming earlier this year, it’s gone ahead and taken its first big steps into the world of NFTs, but not in the way that you would have expected. The company will be releasing NFT-tied Final Fantasy VII action figures in partnership with NFT company Enjin. The [...]
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As more and more video game companies and studios jump aboard the blockchain train, Minecraft developer Mojang has taken a stand against anything related to blockchain technology, including NFTs. According to the studio, they’re now in the process of updating the Minecraft Usage Guidelines to provide more specific rules on the use of new technologies and will not be supporting [...]
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