‘Hamster Kombat’ Airdrop, GTA 6 Bitcoin Trailer, and McDonald’s Metaverse

The crypto and NFT gaming house is busier than ever recently, what with outstanding video games beginning to launch, token airdrops piling up, and a seemingly fixed array of different issues occurring always. It’s rather a lot to absorb!

Fortunately, Decrypt’s GG is throughout it. And should you want a fast approach to get caught up on the newest strikes round crypto video video games, we’re debuting This Week in Crypto Video games.

Our weekend roundup serves up the most important information from the previous week, together with just a few different tidbits you may need missed. We additionally showcase just a few of our unique tales from the week.

Greatest information

Hamster Kombat explodes: Telegram-based recreation Hamster Kombat has shortly turn out to be the buzziest recreation within the crypto world, and now the studio says it has amassed greater than 100 million whole gamers. That’s an immense quantity—roughly 1/9 of the whole Telegram consumer base, and 3 times the gamers that Notcoin amassed earlier than closing its “mining part.”

There’s been immense social curiosity across the crypto trade administration clicker recreation, with its official Telegram channel changing into the most important total on the messaging platform, plus numerous demand for the every day combo and every day cipher code that earn gamers tens of millions of free cash.

Final week, the Hamster Kombat staff revealed that the token launch on The Open Community (TON) is at the moment focused for July, giving gamers a goal for the airdrop.

GTA 6’s ‘Purchase BTC’ leak: There have been all types of rumors about Grand Theft Auto implementing cryptocurrency for its subsequent large recreation, however it was nonetheless an enormous shock when the primary GTA 6 trailer leaked final December with “BUY BTC” plastered on prime. It had been added by the leaker, nevertheless, and there’s at the moment no indication the sport will really function Bitcoin.

However now we all know a bit extra about how that second got here to be. Dependable pseudonymous crypto sleuth ZachXBT shared apparently leaked messages between the leaker (referred to as Skenkir) and allies, the place they mentioned swiping the trailer from the official YouTube account of Rockstar Video games earlier than including the BTC branding and leaking it on Twitter. Click on right here for extra.

McDonald’s metaverse: Grimace followers, unite! Quick meals chain McDonald’s has launched its personal metaverse recreation in Singapore, and house owners of the 2,000 Grimace NFTs launched final 12 months within the nation can entry unique options because of token-gating.

ICYMI

• Arbitrum has unlocked $220 million value of ARB (on the present worth) to assist fund gaming ecosystem development over three years. Learn extra concerning the initiative.
• The Sandbox has raised $20 million in new funding that values the Ethereum metaverse recreation platform at $1 billion.
• Main Ethereum pockets MetaMask has applied a recreation launcher because of an integration with crypto gaming retailer HyperPlay.
• Notcoin is handing out $1 million in NOT tokens in whole to 1000’s of early customers who traded the sport’s pre-market NFT vouchers earlier than the coin went on-chain.
• Pirate Nation plans to launch its PIRATE token on June 13.

• The developer of Sui third-person shooter has raised $7.5 million to assist launch the blockchain recreation later this 12 months.
• Sky Mavis recovered one other $5.7 million value of property stolen within the $622 million Ronin bridge hack from 2022.
• Ethereum layer-3 gaming community Xai will kick off its Vanguard: Genesis marketing campaign this week with a collection of recreation launches and new token rewards.
• The Thriller Society, which launched on Polygon, is shifting to Immutable.

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Listed below are just a few of our unique tales from this previous week that we predict are nicely value a weekend learn: