This Week in Crypto Games: GameStop Meme Coin Explodes, Pixelmon’s Return Continues

The crypto and NFT The gaming space is busier than ever, with popular games starting to release, token airdrops piling up, and other things that seem to be happening all the time. There is a lot to enter!

fortunately, DecryptThe GG is above all. And if you want a quick way to get the latest activity around crypto video games, we're starting this week in Crypto Games.

Our weekend roundup features the biggest news from the past week, along with a few other news you may have missed. We'll also feature a few of our original stories of the week, and finally give a brief update on the season's myriad of gaming airdrops.

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🎮 Big news

GME 2.0: he said GameStop inspired coin on Solana—and like most of the Buz mim coins (incl Dogecoin And Bonk), is it. He shot quickly Before starting fall to earth. It also echoes GameStop's own meme stock saga, but this token is not an official project.

GME is down more than 50% since early Friday, but it was then. Going out again Saturday morning, so who knows where Monday will come? Interestingly, Friday was also the day GameStop's own official NFT marketplace was closed, as announced in January.

Pixelmon Plans: In the year At the height of the 2022 NFT bull market hype, DeGeneres dropped $70 million on creatures created from Pixelmon, which took on the Nintendo Pokemon sensation. The game's founding artwork It's called a “fatal mistake”. It became an industry punchline.

But two years later, in New ownership (late 2022) and improved artwork, Pixelmon is evolving into a true gaming ecosystem with games big and small – and Newly produced 8 million dollar seed collection From core supporters before MON token launch.

Early access Expected to extract the sniper Shrapnel, built-in Avalancheannounced Early access launch on the Epic Games Store Friday end. Owners of the “Extraction Pack” keys will be able to keep a limited amount of previous game play and compete in upcoming sessions, charting as the game evolves, and earn SHRAP token rewards.

Binance pushes back; After a virtual game, SkyArk Chronicles bids $115 million for a massive NFT auction this past weekend, according to Binance Labs. He called the game studio It looks like he's misinvesting. SkyArk apologized, but public pressure from the crypto giant's VC arm left many skeptics and NFT buyers grumbling.

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Immutable zkEVM layer-2 scale network on Ethereum It started this week Games like Guild of Guardians, Shardbound and MetalCore will be heading to the chain before the end of the first half of the year in Early Access mode.
Card Fighter Parallel, which won GG's 2023 Game of the Year honors while still in closed beta, kicked off a new in-game season this week with new NFT cards—and teased a seemingly imminent open beta release. Yuga Labs this week teased a new other-themed mobile game in development with Studio Faraway. It looks like some kind of management or casual strategy game, and it comes in the midst of the launch of Serum City – a game from the distant and fictional lab of Mutant Apes (but not Yuga's official ape branding).

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Here are a few of our early stories from this past week that we think are good weekend reads:

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MixMob Solana-based game MixMob This week it launched its MXM token. For NFT owners and beta players. It's launched on BayBit ​​and there are huge rewards available, plus more token earnings and more. Advantages of Saga smartphone to come.

Portal: A cross-chain game token PORTAL is maintained It will start airdropping in JanuaryBut this week it was announced that there was a replacement Launch dashboard Before the next drop.

wow The WAX ​​NFT Network this week took the first wallet snapshot for the upcoming WUFFI (token name: WUF), a gaming meme coin. Various WAX games Plan to consolidate ahead of planned expansion to Solana. No word yet on the exact token drop.

MOCA MocaversAnimoka Brands Metaverse is getting a gaming community. MOCA token Through the MOCA Foundation. No word yet on schedule or airport details, but Mocavers will Support the token publicly And he's lining up allies on his side.

Edited by Ryan Ozawa.