Virtual Land Sales Booming All Around Us - Play to Earn #22
Among the popular ones: League of Kingdoms, Axie Infinity, The Sandbox, and Cryptovoxels
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This week we had lots of cool news about pre-sales, new features inside virtual worlds, and even entirely new games. But first a public service announcement about Play to Earn.
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Blockchain Games Victim of Ethereum Gas Prices
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Blockchain games are one of the biggest victims of the current high gas prices on the Ethereum blockchain. Because of these high gas prices it’s impossible to play certain games, without paying exorbitant amounts of money. According to a report by DappRadar the amount of transactions for blockchain gaming has dropped with 87 percent. ▶▶▶ Read more
Gamers Spent $56.000 on Virtual Land Within 7 Minutes
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It took gamers and investors only seven minutes to buy all 1458 virtual land parcels that were on sale during the first MoonSale event for The Sandbox. All these lands together got game developer TSB Gaming another 56 thousand dollars. The game studio will organize weekly sales events for the coming five weeks. ▶▶▶ Read more
Axie Infinity Reveals First Look at Land
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After selling all their land months ago, the team behind Axie Infinity has finally revealed more details about the looks and utility of virtual land in the world of Lunacia. Landowners will be able to collect resources from their virtual land, decorate it with structures and battle enemies on them. Items can also be placed on the map, think about plushies, plants and statues. ▶▶▶ Read more
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Project Genesis Available on Steam Early Access
Project Genesis is a new online action game available through Steam Early Access. The game will ultimately give players ownership over in-game weapons and vehicles by tokenizing them on the Ethereum blockchain. ▶▶▶ Read more
Space Game Infinite Fleet Introduced Own Cryptocurrency
Gamers who will play the upcoming space game Infinite Fleet, will be using an in-game cryptocurrency as their payment system. INF is running on a side-chain of the Bitcoin network. ▶▶▶ Read more
Cryptovoxels Soon Supported by VR headsets
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Gamers and virtual reality enthusiasts who own an Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift or HTC Vive headset, will soon be able to enter the virtual world of Cryptovoxels seamlessly. The developers announced that support for the WebXR API is coming, which allows for usage within browser while using virtual reality hardware. ▶▶▶ Read more
League of Kingdoms Second Pre-sale Live Now
Currently the second and final pre-sale for the mobile strategy game League of Kingdoms is live. Land parcels are available with a 20 percent discount over the retail price. Last week it took a few days before all land parcels sold out at a 30 percent discount. League of Kingdoms will launch later this year. ▶▶▶ Read more
Chainlink Truly Randomizes Assets in The Six Dragons
The developers of the upcoming blockchain-powered role playing game The Six Dragons are using Chainlink to make sure that attributes on digital assets are truly randomized. They are using Chainlink’s Verifiable Randomness Function (VRF) for the creation and enhancement of tokenized blockchain assets. No potion or sword will ever be the same. ▶▶▶ Read more
Sorare Reviving Live Fantasy Football on June 16th
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The blockchain-powered fantasy football game Sorare is planning to restart its game on June 16th. For the past months the game has kept its economy going by introducing so-called Replay Tournaments. When the live competition starts, only cards from a select number of competitions will be useful. ▶▶▶ Read more
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