This Week in Crypto Games: Hamster Kombat ‘HamsterVerse’, Telegram Game Airdrop Updates

Off the Grid stands tall: As the top of the yr dawned, Avalanche-based shooter Off the Grid raked in some media accolades. Not solely did it win GG’s Game of the Year, however the battle royale shooter additionally gained Gam3s’ Game of the Year award and made it to a Rolling Stone year-end gaming checklist.

Gunzilla Video games shared its 2025 plans with Decrypt alongside the GOTY honors. Most notably, this consists of an estimated Q1 2025 date for its GUNZ network to enter mainnet, which might allow its GUN token to be freely traded. Earlier than then, the studio needs to launch ranked and solo queue modes, and open up the remaining 80% of the map whereas kicking off the sport’s storyline.

After that, Gunzilla will probably be trying to onboard third-party builders to the GUNZ community, and is even eying a attainable Telegram mini app for the ecosystem. It must be a giant yr for one in all crypto gaming’s largest success tales so far.

Illuvium’s subsequent steps: Crypto gaming franchise Illuvium announced how will probably be transferring ahead within the new yr. The challenge beforehand launched three titles that fed into one another, each by means of shared assets and a story loop—however specializing in all three titles has been too difficult. Going ahead, the workforce will prioritize efforts on one sport at a time, beginning with the auto-battler Illuvium Enviornment.

The prolonged weblog put up additionally touches on plans to scale back microtransactions, add extra content material, and lift extra funding. Maybe most importantly, the put up ponders the potential of briefly shutting down the flagship title Illuvium Overworld till it’s a “totally realized expertise.” However coming into 2025, enhancing the Overworld MMO expertise is claimed to be the Illuvium workforce’s “prime precedence.”

ICYMI

• Telegram sport Catizen distributed rewards to airdrop move holders on Friday, which noticed holders obtain three totally different tokens.
• Iconic gaming model Atari revealed a brand new handheld console, the “My Arcade.”
• Zoo, a surging Telegram sport with over 12 million gamers, confirmed that its mining section will finish on January 31 and that one in-game ZOO token will probably be equal to 1 future on-chain token.
  
• Sonic SVM confirmed that gamers of its TikTok tap-to-earn game will obtain a SONIC airdrop on the Solana blockchain.

• Crypto buying and selling card sport Parallel crossed 6 million video games performed within the historical past of its existence, with builders claiming that it presently averages 200,000 video games per week.
• Telegram sport Cat Gold Miner introduced that its token will probably be listed on Bitget, Gate, MEXC, and different exchanges on Thursday, January 9.
• Somebody turned the enduring first-person shooter Doom into a CAPTCHA human verification challenge.

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Listed below are just a few of our authentic tales from this previous couple weeks that we predict are effectively value a weekend learn:

Edited by Andrew Hayward