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Back in August, Riot Games entered into a sponsorship deal with cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX in what the League of Legends studio announced as the largest sponsorship deal that its ever secured. The deal was supposed to last for seven years with FTX branding to be prominently displayed during League of Legends Championship Series events for boatloads of cash. Back [...]
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Looks like there's trouble in the metaverse. Wemade, the South Korean gaming company behind numerous play to earn MMOs including Mir 4, saw its stock price plummet 30% today after its Play 2 Earn token 'Wemix' will be delisted from numerous popular South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges on Dec 8th. The 30% plunge in the company's stock price was the maximum [...]
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X-Legend Entertainment, the Taiwanese game studio behind Grand Fantasia, Aura Kingdom, and over a dozen other MMOs, announced today that their blockchain play-to-earn mobile MMORPG 'Honor of Heirs' launched worldwide today. The game is natively designed for mobile devices but there's also a PC client available on the official website. X-Legend has had success in the past with their anime [...]
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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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