This Week in Crypto Games: Sonic SVM TikTok Airdrop on Solana, MLG Meme Coin Soars

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, DecryptGigi is all over. And if you need a quick way to catch up on the latest activity around crypto video games, we're happy to feature 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 top stories of the week.

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The big news

TikTok Airdrop Sonic SVM, the layer-2 gaming chain built on top of Solana, launched the SONIC token on Tuesday. The token has peaked a Market value of 443 million dollars But it later dropped to $277 million. With this, players of the project TikTok's touch-to-earn game Sonic X were able to claim their tokens – the claim period has expired. January 30.

The game follows the simple touch premise that most games in the genre follow, but innovates by launching the game with Tik Tok rather than Telegram. This helped the project to reach more than 2 million players, which confirmed the success of Sonic SVM. Now, Sonic SVM is looking to onboard third-party projects to follow in its footsteps.

Call of Duty Meme Coin: 360noscope420blazeit (MLG) skyrocketed 5,200% in six days A call to work – a call to longing. of Solana Meme Coin harkens back to the classic golden call of duty—before “Wishes” and over-complicated kills, or micro-transactions and flooded skins. It's not just Quake either: they've launched custom online servers for classic Call of Duty games to draw in the crypto player community.

This approach quickly attracted a cult-like following, but when members of popular esports group Faze Clan started shilling the token, it went parabolic. Richard “Fuzzy Banks” Bengtson believed in the token so much that he got the first MLG logo tattooed—that is, Major League Gaming, the company that was on the Call of Duty scene.

The MLG token isn't an official offering of that Activision-owned tournament maker, but that hasn't stopped it from posting monster profits. MLG is up nearly $0.178 as of press time, putting it at a high market cap of around $177 million on Saturday. Since then, it has fallen about 30%.

Arena of Machines on Steam and PS5: Ethereum Hero shooter Machines Arena-Ronin, which runs on Game Network – is coming to new platforms, and will be released on the main PC marketplace Steam and the PlayStation 5 console. However, since both platforms have restrictive crypto policies, those versions of the game will have zero or limited crypto features.

There will be no crypto features on Steam. However, b PlayStation 5 Releasesaid David Gracia, design manager of Guide Games Decrypt The company is still in talks with Sony on how to implement Crypto Elements. This is something to keep an eye on as we have yet to see a game successfully implement live crypto features on PlayStation (off-grid, early access, has a test block chain on the back end but currently no player-on-chain features).

ICMI

He said the Telegram game trumped the Trump empire. 4 million total players.
A Pudgy Penguin The game is in development. Playemberis ready to launch. Draft.
Transc is built directly on the Ethereum gaming network Ronin With fiat-to-crypto infrastructure.
An AI agent is called For Jai–Based on Axie Infinity co-founder Jeff “device“Zirlin – Thanks to the virtualization protocol, it was launched on Ronin.
PIXEL, a token tied to a social farming game Pixelsprepared. Accept packing coming soon.

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

Edited by Andrew Hayward.