Reaper Actual decloaks & Messi NFTs live in FIFA Rivals (from $11,204)
Blockchain games roundup, 4th July
Can EverQuest veteran John Smedley get web3 right? If nothing else, it’s good to see ambition.
Smedley’s co-founded startup Distinct Possibility Studios recently unveiled open-world persistent loot shooter Reaper Actual. In development for two years, the game has secured $30.5 million in funding, which was led by Bitkraft and Brevan Howard Digital.
In terms of “doing web3 right”, the web3 version of Reaper Actual will deploy on Tezos’ EVM L2 Etherlink. As Smedley has said, the focus is the game itself, with web3 features such as the ability to own and trade NFT bases being an optional bonus. The version of the game released via Steam and Epic Games Store will be purely web2, however. Expected to release alpha in the coming weeks.
Three weeks following Mythical Games’ mobile football game FIFA Rivals going live, a significant feature enabling players to combine fragments into complete players has been added. Each completed player is ranked mythical, and consists of five fragments which can either be earned in-game or bought via Mythical Marketplace. Of course, the first ones have already been created and put up for sale, with the cheapest version of Lionel Messi being priced at $11,204.
In case you missed it, we also made a handy guide how to play FIFA Rivals.
Thanks to its LUMI token MegaDrop 1 now being live – although the token isn’t live yet – Ronin-based pixel MMORPG Lumiterra has seen a sharp uptick in dailies. Daily onchain activity spiked at over 300,000 DAUWs this week, accounting for around half of all combined activity on Ronin. This makes Lumiterra a clear leader in terms of most popular blockchain games, with other titles to podium in our July update including Alien Worlds and Axie Infinity.
In conjunction with fully onchain Minecraft-game Chunked version 2 dropping, Jon had a great conversation with Improbable co-founder and MSquared CEO Rob Whitehead about how faster blockchains and more onchain data can supercharge web3 gaming. In particular Whitehead explains how MSquared, which he calls “Amazon Web Services for virtual worlds” is building an underlying technology layer that’s going to allow virtual worlds to connect on a new level.
Lastly, alongside Delabs Games opening pre-regs for Ragnarok Libre, Jenny spoke to CEO Joonmo Kwon about his expectations for the game and how the forthcoming DELABS token launch will boost ecosystem growth.
Additional news from the week
MapleStory N’s most expensive NFT sells for 2,000,000,000 NESO
Off The Grid’s Gunz mainnet breaks 20,000 DAUWs for the first time
Ubisoft is adding AI agents to Captain Laserhawk’s governance
EVE Frontier launches free access until 7th July
Sky Mavis bizdev director Kathleen Osgood joins Moku
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