Flow Hyping Cryptokitties, NBA Top Show and Chainmonsters - Play to Earn #21

Cryptopunks, MegaCryptoPolis, Somnium Space and Minecraft also covered this week!

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The biggest news from this week come from Dapper Labs. They’ve shown the first concepts for the updated version of Cryptokitties, announced the beta for NBA Top Shot, while introducing Chainmonsters as one of the first third-party games. No worries, we have a lot more topics to cover!

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Robert Hoogendoorn

Improved Cryptokitties Coming to Flow Blockchain

Dapper Labs has confirmed that an improved version of their blockchain collectible game Cryptokitties will release on their upcoming Flow blockchain. The kitties will be visually more attractive and will have more metadata. They named the project Cryptokitties on Flow, and it should demonstrate the chain’s capabilities in comparison with Ethereum. ▶▶▶ Read more

NBA Top Shot Beta Test Warming Up

Dapper Labs is preparing itself and their community for the beta launch of their licensed collectible game NBA Top Shot. This collectible is all about tokenized video highlights from basketball history, while it will also integrate a mobile hoops game. The beta should launch next week. ▶▶▶ Read more

Extra Land Sale Announced for The Sandbox

Starting from June 4th gamers and investors are able to once again acquire land in the virtual world of The Sandbox during a special extra land sale. TSB Gaming has announced the MoonSale, a six week long period during which land plots and estates will be made available for sale. Pricing will start as $38.40 per land parcel, which is a 20 percent discount. ▶▶▶ Read more

MegaCryptoPolis Paid $3.5 Million to its Players

MegaCryptoPolis has paid out 3.5 million dollars to gamers over the past two years. According to data presented by the studio, over thirty thousand wallets on the Ethereum and Tron blockchain hold one or more assets from the city building game. Currently the game is valuated with a market cap of almost 35 thousand ETH, or 7.7 million dollars, based on peer-to-peer trading on Opensea. ▶▶▶ Read more

Cryptopunks Reached New Heights With $20.000 Sale

Cryptopunks has reached new heights with the sale of a single punk character for 20 thousand dollars. Punk 6487 sold for 100 ETH, which was valued 20.857 dollars at the time of the transaction. It’s the first time since its inception that this female bald punk changed hands. ▶▶▶ Read more

Blocklords 2.0 is coming

The developers behind Blocklords are working hard to improve and remake their blockchain-powered strategy game. The game will be playable on mobile devices, and without the need for a blockchain wallet. Cross-chain gaming will be enabled, and the project will release on Steam, Facebook, iOS and so on. ▶▶▶ Watch the presentation

Somnium Space Auctioned Virtual Land for $470.000

In the past ten weeks Somnium Space has auctioned hundreds of land parcels for their virtual world for a total of 2325.98 ETH or just over 470 thousand dollars. This amount was reached after the final round ended on Sunday. These ten weeks filled with auctions were part of a promotional campaign known as the Road to Second Land Offering. ▶▶▶ Read more

Nova Blitz Moving Over to GameCredits

Trading card game Nova Blitz will start using GameCredits tokens in the near future. The card game has been acquired by the game-oriented blockchain project. Nova Blitz will serve as a real-time prototype to show game developers what the GameCredits platform can add to their projects. ▶▶▶ Read more

Minecraft Servers Can Now Have Blockchain Items

Enjin has launched the Enjincraft blockchain plugin for Minecraft servers. Server owners can integrate rewards for players, or give players access to certain areas in the game world when they own a special item. In addition players can exchange items within their game world as well. ▶▶▶ Read more

Dark Country Gives Digital Cards A Memory with Spirits

In the upcoming collectible card game Dark Country the trading cards will be unique because of their history within the game, and the developers call this memory system Spirits. Each card has a chance to get a certain amount of Spirit slots, and filling it up with spirits makes the card unique. Once all spirit slots are occupied, the card gets an unique frame. ▶▶▶ Read more

Another CSC Star Trek Auction

This weekend Crypto Space Commander, also known as CSC, is hosting a Star Trek + CSC: Picard Event. The first auction will be the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E. In total there will be four unique spaceships available. It’s the second Star Trek auction, after the initial success last year. ▶▶▶ Check out the auctions

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