Week in Crypto Games: Chapter 2 of ‘Pixels’, Konami in Avalanche, Boom in Games on Telegram

The cryptocurrency gaming space and NFTs andis booming, with a constant stream of notable releases, token giveaways, and frenetic activity. It’s hard to take in everything that’s happening, but don’t worry! GG from Decrypt is here to keep you up to date.

We make sure to stay up to date with all the news. If you need to quickly catch up on the latest movements around cryptocurrency gaming, you’re in the right place. We are excited to present “Week in Crypto Games”.

In our weekend roundup, we round up the biggest news from the past week and give you some extra details you might have missed. Additionally, we highlight some of our most relevant original stories. Get ready to stay on top of everything related to crypto gaming!

Top news

Pixels Chapter 2: Pixels, the Ronin-based farming game, just released its big Chapter 2 update, which includes the implementation of new systems to help strengthen the game sustainability. The team states that the update is not a complete change and requires the player to “discover a ‘new game’ by unraveling the layers.”

Chapter 2 features changes to resource gathering and crafting, and introduces a new resource ranking system. Additionally, tools have different Minecraft-style levels and will lose durability over time. The free-to-play land has also received a small overhaul that aims to help players who don’t pay for upgrades progress more easily.

We interviewed Pixels founder Luke Barwikowski about the motivation behind the update and how his studio went through a brief identity crisis following the game’s runaway success.

Konami NFT Platform: Konami Digital Entertainment—the Japanese video game giant behind franchises like Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill and Castlevania—announced Thursday that will launch an NFT platform called Resella in the Avalanche blockchain.

This platform aims to make it easier for companies to integrate blockchain technology and issue NFTs, both for games and other types of applications. According to Konami, Resella eliminates the need for users to open an external cryptocurrency wallet or handle cryptocurrencies at all. It will be aimed at Japanese home users, but also plans to accommodate global users.

Telegram boom: If you’ve been following our coverage lately, you’ve surely noticed the growing number of Telegram-based games attracting millions of players with promises of token rewards. It all started with Notcoin earlier this year, but the recent Hamster Kombat game has reportedly reached over 150 million players, and several games continue to emerge.

We’ve started to expand our coverage on some of those other titles, including PixelTap from Pixelverse, Yescoin, TapSwap, and Catizen, with more to come on those games and other emerging cryptocurrency titles on Telegram.

OpenSeason Airdrop: The creators of the Ethereum game OpenSeason, similar to Fortnite, last week launched their token airdrop. Holders of the Fractional Uprising Studios NFT, which is currently required to play the game, began receiving tokens on tuesday afternoon.

The FU token (short for FU Money) in Arbitruman Ethereum Layer 2 scaling network, is now valued above a market cap of $11 million, according to CoinGecko. 10% of the total token supply was automatically sent to NFT holders via airdrop, based on three previous ownership snapshots.

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Here are some of our original stories from last week that we think are worth reading over the weekend:

Edited by Andrew Hayward