With Bob Iger throwing $1.5B into Epic Games and Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros Discovery joining forces to create a sports streaming service, the media/entertainment singularity has never been closer. Wen Microsoft Epic Games acquisition?

Antitrust issues aside, we’re ready to start writing under the Microsoft Blizzard Activision Disney Time Warner in exchange for that bag. DMs are open for that offer, Bob; we’ll even throw in some Michael Eisner if that will sweeten the deal.

With that, here’s your rundown of last week’s web3 gaming news from other projects that the Tesuo looking mega-conglomerate hasn’t absorbed:

• Partnerships: Who’s teaming up in the gaming world?

• 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

• UFORIKA x Solidus AI. UFORIKA partnered with Solidus AI to incorporate Solidus’ AI solutions and decentralized compute infrastructure into the UFORIKA.

• WEMIX x Sygnum. Swiss and Singapore digital asset management group Sygnum joined WEMIX’s WONDER Staking innitative as the 18th WONDER in the Node Council Partner Program.

• GCash x Axie Infinity. GCash, a mobile wallet app used by 80% of smart phone users in the Philippines, partnered with Axie Infinity and Ronin to add support for AXS, SLP, and RON within the wallet app.

Change Log

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

• Axie Infinity Project T increased its daily cap to 5k AXP and decreased the butterfly catching event to 90min.

• Big Time’s v0.29 update introduced new passive abilities, bonus portal rolls, quest mechanics, and other features.

• Chain of Alliance upgraded its character art as part of its ongoing Enemies Series art updates.

• Champion’s Ascension launched the Grand Bazaar, allowing players to mint off-chain gaming assets on-chain.

• Crypto Unicorns flagged 29 wallets for exploiting the Party Stamps feature within the Unicorn Party apps and printing nearly 500k RBW.

• CyberTitans developer LitLabs released its latest patch for the auto-chess game featuring new challenges and game optimizations.

Release Radar

Upcoming games, playtests, and drops.

• 🎮 AI Arena (Testnet Competition): Live

• 🎮 Oh Baby Kart (Beta 2): Live

• 🎮 Paradise Tycoon (Beta): Late February

• 🎮 PECland (Testnet): Live

• 🎮 Shrapnel (STX1 Event): Live

• 🎮 Sky Strife Season 0.2 (Playtest): Live

• 🪙 MATR1X MAX Score Airdrop Event: Ongoing

• 🪙 Saga P2A (Season 2): February 10

On-Chain Activity

New on-chain game announcements and network migrations.

• X2Y2 (Oasys). X2Y2 is an NFT marketplace and aggregator that will develop on Oasys’s Geso, Dm2, and HOME Verses.

• Sphere (Immutable zkEVM). Sphere is the first marketplace to integrate with Immutable zkEVM, extending its availability to both the Immutable and Beam ecosystems.

• Eldarune (Avalanche). Elderune is launching its own subnet on Avalanche on April 8th, bringing the ELDA token, NFTs and four new titles onto Avalanche.

• Maplestory Universe (Polygon → ???). Maplestory Universe creator Nexon is reportedly parting ways with Polygon and in talks with bringing the game to a new mainnet.

• Crystals of Naramunz (Beam). The post-apocalyptic RPG is the latest game to commit to building on Beam.

• BoomLand Games (Polygon → Immutable zkEVM). Boomland Games is moving Hunters On-Chain and future game releases from Polygon to Polygon and Immutable’s zkEVM.

• RoboHero (WEMIX). The turn-based strategy game developed by DevDream House OÜ is launching on WEMIX alongside its ROBO token.

Other News

• Hotto Shotto launched its GalaChain block explorer and developer toolkit for the Gala community.

• WEMIX was listed on Bit2Me, the latest expansion of the token’s offering in LATAM after its initial listing on Mercado Bitcoin.

• Ronin’s RON token was listed on Binance.

• Solana GameShift has completed its beta phase and launched in-game marketplaces through Tensor.

• Mythical and Fenix games settled in court over allegations that Mythical employees and executives used their position within the company to direct investors money from Mythical to Fenix Games.

• Midnight Society released its 2024 roadmap update for Deaddrop.

• Pixels is bringing PIXEL to Binance Launchpool and moving to phase out its secondary in-game token BERRY.

• The Heist launched its public token raffle for KIWI, allocating 4% of the total token supply to winners.

Bonus Loot

• 📘 Are minigames back?, Sam Barberie (Read)

• 📘 PC Gamer Report, Ultra (Read)

• 🎧 Onchain Games Engines, Deus Ex DAO (Listen)

• 📺  What can we learn from the success of Palworld?, a16z Games(Watch)

• 📺 How Web3 Enables Content and Individuals as a Platform, Animoca Brands (Watch