🎱 2024 GameFi Info Updates You Need To Know

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🔝 Top Gaming NFTs on OpenSea: Highest Trading Volume

Illuvium Preps System Update Launch Ahead of Blueprint Minting Phase

🔐 New System Update Features an Upgraded Anti-cheat System Ensuring a Fair and Secure Minting Process

• Illuvium Zero System Update: Scheduled from January 3rd to February 3rd, 2024, ahead of the blueprint minting phase.

• Purpose of Update: Aims to facilitate a seamless minting process and ensure fairness and security.

• Anti-Cheat System: Integrated into the update to oversee minting requests for fairness.

• Blueprint Overview: Fifteen unique blueprints available, each plot enables minting one blueprint as an ERC721 NFT on Immutable X.

• Minted Blueprints: Tradable on the Illuvidex marketplace.

• Requirements for Minting: Players need to upgrade their marketplace to Level 2 and build a Zero Point Transducer.

• Minting Process: Involves using the Singularity Scanner, conducting research in the Materials Lab, and initiating the minting process.

• Tutorial: Illuvium: Zero released a tutorial video for minting guidance.

• Minting Cost: The process is free but requires some time to complete.

GameSwift Unveils GS Pay: Transforming In-Game Assets into Real-World Spending for Gamers

Introducing GS Pay, a revolutionary payment system converting in-game assets into real-world currency for daily spending.

• Key Features:

  • Uses G-BUCKS virtual currency for seamless integration into games, apps, and online stores.

  • Provides gamers with higher APY, discounts, and airdrop multipliers.

• Tech Highlights:

  • GameSwift's intuitive dashboard and GS Pay bank card enable the conversion of in-game assets to cash.

  • Includes GameSwift Wallet and GameSwift Card, handling technical aspects and ensuring privacy during asset conversion.

• Essential Details:

  • Whitelisted user access begins on December 20th, marking the start of the Open Phase on December 21st.

  • Offers 888 available places and lock conditions of 3 months plus 7 days unbounding.

• About GameSwift:

  • GameSwift pioneers gaming innovation through blockchain tech, aiming to simplify asset monetization for users without blockchain expertise, empowering them with GS Pay.

Mobox goes LIVE with DragonverseNeo Alpha

Mobox's DragonverseNeo alpha test is LIVE, marking the first co-created 3D open world.

• Community-Driven Evolution: Embracing community governance, DragonverseNeo empowers users to shape the game's direction from day one.

• Step-by-Step Access Guide: A comprehensive tutorial provides detailed steps to access the alpha, including installation, avatar customization, and game controls.

• Exploration and Challenges: DragonverseNeo offers free exploration, hidden mini-games, and exclusive rewards for completing challenges.

• Upcoming Features Preview: Upcoming game features include co-creation using $MBOX and community governance through live proposals.

Here’s a Step-by-Step Tutorial to start Exploring Dragonverse Neo!

Earth From Another Sun Alpha 113 Is Live With New Battle Pass Season & More

Earth From Another Sun (EFAS) Alpha 113 is now live, introducing the "Entropy Power" update featuring a new Battle Pass season and several enhancements, maintaining compatibility with Alpha 112 saves.

Key Updates in Alpha 113:

• Entertainment with Entropy Power: The latest version includes a new Battle Pass season, fresh features, and numerous optimizations, ensuring continuity for Alpha 112 saved progress.

• New Additions: Includes an Entropy Warrior Set, a revamped mission UI, and the introduction of three new skills: Trembling Roar, Rust Corrosion Pulse, and Rampage.

• Weapon Modifications: Two new affixes, Thermal Surge and Head Burst, added for the Gauss Pistol, while elite chests now contain eight new buffs.

• Expanded Gameplay Diversity: Introduces three new damage types - Kinetic, Energy, and Biological - influencing gameplay strategies with varying damage effects.

• Star View Enhancements: Enhancements in navigation animation and radar display height, allowing fleets to evade obstacles during movement.

EFAS Overview:

• EFAS is a sci-fi first-person looter-shooter on the Solana network, available in alpha for Windows PC, exclusive to backers who own specific NFT packs.

• Backer NFT packs (Founder's, Loverbird's, Paramour's, Arbiter's) offer different benefits, including game access, digital art, soundtrack, and potential extras, available for purchase directly from developers via various payment methods.

• System requirements: Windows PC with specific hardware specs for optimal gameplay experience.

For comprehensive details, players can access full patch notes on the game's official Discord server.

Top Gaming Projects on Ethereum with the Highest Users in the last 7 days

1. HYTOPIA is built by the pioneers of Minecraft's third-party modding ecosystem, HYTOPIA is a free-to-play game and platform that empowers creators and players alike. With a foundation that supports modularity and creativity, HYTOPIA is the canvas for limitless gaming experiences in web3.

2. Champignons of Arborethia is a browser-based RPG (Role-playing game) that brings back the 1990s gaming vibes. The story centers on six mushroom species, living around Arborethia, the tree of life, acting as the last line of defense against its enemies.

3. Cryptoforce (COF) is fast-paced, multiplayer first-person shooter game set in a world of cryptocurrency and high-tech warfare. Players join one of two rival faction, either the Phoenix Fury or the Dragon's Den team and engage in intense battles to gain control over territories and resources critical to their faction's survival. 

4. Wolf Game, where thousands of Sheep and Wolves compete on a farm in the metaverse. A tempting prize of WOOL awaits, with deadly high stakes. All the metadata and images are generated and stored 100% on-chain. No IPFS. NO API. Just the Ethereum blockchain.

5. Dimension X is a Free-to-Play, Play-to-Earn strategic role playing game on the Flow blockchain set in the Dimension X comic book universe, where a pan-dimensional explosion created super powered humans, aliens and monsters with radical and terrifying superpowers!

6. Mirandus is one of the most popular crypto games developed by the Gala Games, set in a massive world ruled by 5-player monarchs. Mirandus has provided a massively multiplayer role-playing game world that allows owning various in-game assets ranging from massive cities to in-game shops. Players who hold land deeds also get to earn rewards.

7. Townstar is a play-to-earn farming game by Gala Games (co-founders of Zynga Games). Players build their Town to produce resources that can earn them Town Coin, which is the game’s cryptocurrency. Built on the Etheruem blockchain, it is a relaxing but strategic farming game with excellent depth.

8. Illuvium is a double blaster by being a fun-filled action treasure hunting blockchain game plus a mode of making some real cash on the side. It is the first truly AAA game on the Ethereum blockchain, with a lot of emphasis on the gameplay.

9. Sugartown is an innovative web3 game developed by the renowned game publisher, Zynga. Set in a whimsical world, Sugartown offers players an immersive gaming experience that seamlessly integrates blockchain technology. Dive into a universe where farm animals open wormholes, otherworldly beings called Oras transform the city, and players can harness the power of NFTs.

10. League of Kingdoms is a blockchain-powered play-to-earn game where gamers construct kingdoms, form alliances, and engage in strategic battles. It's governed by users through blockchain technology, allowing ownership and trade of in-game assets as NFTs. The aim is to build powerful kingdoms, forge alliances, and collect resources like crystals and lumber to strengthen gameplay strategies.

Futureverse collab with Ready Player One to bring Readyerse Studios

Readyverse Studios Formation with Ernest Cline: A Meta-Universe Unveiled

• Founders' Mission: Readyverse Studios, co-founded by Shara Senderoff and Aaron McDonald from Futureverse alongside Ernest Cline and Dan Farah, aims to create an expansive metaverse inspired by Ready Player One and other beloved IPs.

• The Readyverse's Ambitious Launch: Utilizing Web3, gaming, AR/VR tech, and Futureverse's AI capabilities, Readyverse Studios plans to introduce The Readyverse in 2024, an interconnected platform offering a unique metaverse experience.

• Exclusive Partnerships and IP: The studio has secured exclusive Web3 rights to Ready Player One and future IPs from Ernest Cline and Neal Stephenson. It aims to incorporate various brands and franchises into The Readyverse.

• Embracing an Open Metaverse Philosophy: Focused on principles like digital ownership, community-driven infrastructure, decentralization, and interoperability, Readyverse champions an open metaverse approach, aiming to avoid domination by a single company.

• Scale and Potential Value: Riding on Futureverse's extensive technology stack, Readyverse Studios eyes the projected $13 trillion metaverse market by 2030, aiming to offer scalable, user-friendly infrastructure and AI-generated content creation tools.

• Hollywood Collaboration and Consumer Engagement: The studio intends to collaborate with Hollywood studios, talent, and brands to create immersive experiences and new revenue streams while offering consumers a dynamic open metaverse experience.

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