gm/gn/gg gamers,

If you’re disappointed that we haven’t brought up Palworld yet in this recap, we have some bad news: this week’s recap is 100% certified, grade A, web3 gaming content. If that’s a dealbreaker for you, check out Mostafa Salem’s piece on web3 gaming and Palworld in Gam3. But not until you read through this and click on a few other links first.

Anyway, we just found out how much Crypto Stache is making on < 1-minute videos, so we’re also going to try to keep it brief this week in an effort to get some of that short-form bag.

Here’s what we got for you for this week’s streamlined Web3 Weekly:

• Partnerships: Who doesn’t love a good team-up? We got SEGA and LINE, Animoca and Coinbase, and everything in between.

• Change Log: Updates, patches, and new features from games we’ve covered.

• Release Radar: Upcoming games, playtests, and drops.

• On-Chain Activity: New on-chain game announcements and network migrations.

• Other News: The other things that happened in web3 gaming this week.

• Bonus Loot: Cool media we’ve been digesting this week.

Partnerships

• Immutable x Axelar. Immutable teamed up with Axelar to expand interoperability to the Immutable zkEVM, making Immutable more accessible across 40+ different ecosystems.

• WAGMI Games x Altura. WAGMI Games and Alutra are giving away over $10k worth of prizes in a joint celebration of the WAGMI NFT Marketplace launch.

• The Sandbox x Unstoppable Domains. Unstoppable Domains unveiled Meta Cube: a multiplayer gaming experience developed within The Sandbox.

• Animoca Brands x iCandy. iCandy subsidiary studio, Appxplore, launched Coinbase-incubated Snaky Cat with Animoca Brands.

• Darewise Entertainment x Honda. Honda Motor Co. is developing vehicle-related gameplay for the upcoming launch of Darewise’s Life Beyond.

• XBorg x Ninjas in Pyjamas. Gaming credential infrastructure provider XBorg is building a fan engagement platform alongside esports OGs Ninjas in Pyjamas.

• SEGA x Finschia. SEGA Singapore, the subsidiary of SEGA responsible for SEGA’s web3 business, partnered with LINE Blockchain successor Finschia to integrate SEGA IP into web3 games.

• Playember x Cool Cats. Playember is teaming up with Cool Cats to build Cool Cats: Match Quest, a new mobile game on Immutable.

Change Log

Updates, patches, and new features from games we’ve covered.

• Benji Bananas launched Benji’s Shop, enabling in-game purchases with Safari Points.

• Champions Ascension revamped its in-game economy following its move from pre-alpha to alpha.

• Goons of Balatroon’s TCG Goon Wars added 147 new cards and shared upcoming releases, including in-game wallets on Beam and new game modes.

• Might Action Heroes upgrade its Challenge Matches system.

• Pirate Nations unveiled new PvP Mode mechanics for its upcoming launch.

Release Radar

Upcoming games, playtests, and drops.

• 🎮 Axie Infinity: Homeland (Beta): Live

• 🎮 Metabolts (Public Playtest): Ongoing

• 🎮 Shrapnel (Operator Holders Playtest): Tonight

• 🎮 The Age of Mars, Red Chaos (Alpha): January 31

• 🎮 Zerpmon (Beta): January 31

• 🎮 Dookey Dash Unclogged: Soon

• 🎮 Parallel (Open Beta): Soon

• 🖼️ Haven’s Compass (Free Genesis NFT Mint): January 25

• 🪙 Heroes of Mavia (MAVIA Token Launch): February 6

• 🪙 Blocklords (LRDS Token Gamedrop): Soon

On-Chain Activity

New on-chain game announcements and network migrations.

• Arena Games (BSC → SKALE). Arena Games is a P2E platform and game developer offering rewards for several mobile game titles.

• Haven’s Compass (SKALE → Myria). Haven’s Compass is Seedify incubated FPS built on Unreal Engine 5. The team announced its plans for Myria less than a week before its Genesis mint on SKALE.

• Imaginary Ones (Immutable). Imaginary Ones is an Ethereum-based NFT collection developing web3 gaming titles surrounding the brand’s IP.

• Katana Inu (Immutable). Katana Inu is a third-person battle royale game that’s raised $7.75M ahead of its closed beta.

• Snaky Cat (BASE). Snaky Cat is a P2E Snake-style game developed by iCandy and Animoca Brands and incubated by Coinbase.

• Treeverse and Capsule Heroes (Immutable). MMORPG Treeverse and PvP brawler Capsule Heroes are joining Immutable following a partnership with Endless Clouds.

• Underground Waifus (BSC → WEMIX). Underground Waifus is a F2P/P2E TCG developed by Maniac Panda Games bridging the ‘divide’ between gamers and Anime.

Other News

• AOFverse raised $3M in a funding round led by Animoca Ventures.

• GMEE Token suffered a $15M loss after an unauthorized user gained access to their token contracts and took 600M tokens.

• Hychain launched its testnet and released docs for the upcoming L2.

• The Mocaverse’s very own MOCA Foundation shared a teaser for the upcoming launch of MOCA Coin.

• Netmarble is liquidating its Sui-based Metaverse World project and reportedly letting go of 70 employees working on it.

• PECland raised $600k in a pre-seed funding round from Moonrock Capital, HG Ventures, ZBS Capital and others.

• Playember’s Genesis NFT mint minted out in two hours.