Adding Digital Collectibles to Existing Franchises - Play to Earn #19

Garbage Pail Kids & Crazy Defense Heroes made their first steps in digital collectibles!

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Topps has been a major player in the world of collectible cards for many decades. Since this week they’ve launched their first digital collectibles on the Wax blockchain. On top of that Animoca Brands used an existing franchise to launch digital collectibles. Enough interesting stuff happened this week in blockchain gaming.

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Robert Hoogendoorn

Garbage Pail Kids Collectible Cards Sold Out

Hey, 80s and 90s kids. Do you remember Garbage Pail Kids? I know I sure do! Launched this week, Topps sold all 110 thousand Garbage Pail Kids cards within 28 hours. The cards were sold in packs of five for five dollars. From now on collectors will only be able to buy the digital collectibles on secondary markets that support Wax. Now prices already range between $1.50 and $140 dollars per card. ▶▶▶ Read more

Crazy Defense Heroes Introduces Blockchain Collectibles

Two year old mobile game Crazy Defense Heroes from Animoca Brands has launched digital collectibles. These non-fungible tokens are just that, digital collectibles. Players won’t be able to use these items in-game. The maximum revenue from this project would be 3450 dollars, which suggests that Animoca Brands uses this as a trial from something bigger. ▶▶▶ Read more

Reddit Jumping Into Ethereum-powered Loot Tokens

Cool stuff. Reddit announced that users from /r/cryptocurrency and /r/fortnitebr will be rewarded with Community Points. These tokenized assets (Moons and Bricks) will be the first introduction into blockchain-powered non-fungible tokens for a big part of the 20 million Reddit users. Adam Cochran did a great article about it. ▶▶▶ Check it out

Paladin Studios Making Original Game Within The Sandbox

Dutch game studio Paladin Studios is working on an original game experience within the virtual world of The Sandbox. They haven’t unveiled any details about their creation yet. ▶▶▶ Read more

Gods Unchained Gets Non-Custodial Exchange Platform

Immutable is working on a decentralized, low-fee and non-custodial exchange for their trading card game Gods Unchained. This exchange will be able to handle over 200 million NFT transactions per day. ▶▶▶ Read more

League of Kingdoms Pre-sale Later This Month

Nplus Entertainment is launching a pre-sale for virtual land in their upcoming strategy MMO called League of Kingdoms. Land ownership is already an interesting concept in this game, but there’s also something with KYC registration that’s required for (some) land owners. ▶▶▶ Read more

No coding needed inside Somnium Space

If you’re like me, and even HTML scares you, than developing a game will be something that will never happen. However, thanks to visual scripting game development because a lot more accessible. The Sandbox will use it in Game Maker, and now Somnium Space is also incorporating it. ▶▶▶ Check the tweet

Axie Infinity Desktop Launcher Now Available

Desktop gamers who love playing Axie Infinity, can now launch the game from a dedicated launcher. App updates, guides and news, everything in one place. Really nice stuff by Sky Maves. ▶▶▶ Download now

Game Maker Developers Choose Perspective in The Sandbox

In the upcoming Game Maker software for the virtual world of The Sandbox, game developers and creatives aren’t restricted to a certain camera perspective. Based on the game they are creating, they can force players to play the game from a top-down, third-person or first-person perspective. ▶▶▶ Read more

Atari Token Getting Easier On-boarding with Arkane

Atari has announced a partnership with crypto wallet and service provider Arkane Network to make it even easier for users to acquire, send and store Atari Tokens. The wallet service will integrate the token and support Atari’s strategic objective to boost the adoption of Atari Token across the online gaming ecosystem. ▶▶▶ Read more

Momo Wang Designed Cryptokitties Sold in Auction

There’s an auction happening for an one-of-a-kind Cryptokitties kitten designed by Chinese designer Momo Wang. Koshkat is an exclusive kitten with an abstract and surrealist aesthetic. Currently the highest bid is 3 thousand dollars, and the auction will end on this evening on May 15th 7:30 PM PDT. ▶▶▶ Read more

CryptoFights Leaves Ethereum for Bitcoin SV

An interesting move from blockchain game developer Kronoverse. They’ve made their own solution for game assets on the Bitcoin SV blockchain, and will therefore abandon Enjin and Ethereum. Kronoverse decided on the move because they don’t have faith in Ehtereum 2.0 and in addition they said that Bitcoin SV provides the scalability that Ethereum doesn’t have. ▶▶▶ Read more

Earn Rewards Using Decentralized Applications

RabbitHole is a new endeavor to increase the user experience. Users are rewarded when they use decentralized apps. You can earn experience points, level up, and there is more gamification under the hood. ▶▶▶ Announcement

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