Welcome to the 181st edition of the Play to Earn newsletter!

Gods Unchained takes the spotlight with an announcement about a partnership with Epic games to have GU published through the Epic Games Launcher. With millions of users on the Epic platform, this could be a great opportunity for Gods Unchained to do a little marketing and increase their playerbase!

AI is back in the news as Alterverse unleashes two NPCs run via a conversational AI in their Sky City social hub! This is likely just the first of many such gaming implementations we will see in the future.

In other news, the Bored Apes bring us a new game, known as HV-MTL Forge, Synergy of Serra opens their alpha test to everyone, Phantom Galaxies expands those allowed into phase 2 of beta 2, and My Neighbor Alice launches into season 3 of their alpha with a newly added crafting system!

Mobile games continue to make noise as well. Arc8 just added a new, play and earn league system, and will soon have a mint for their League Pass NFTs. And speaking of mints, Open Campus is holding their free mint for their Genesis NFTs - though you need to be on the list. These NFTs will be part of a larger ecosystem around democratizing, incentivizing, and gamifying educational materials! Good stuff!

And of course, that’s not all! Read on for more headlines from this past week!

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Gods Unchained Goes Epic

Gods Unchained makes a push to draw in more players with a newly announced partnership with Epic Games. This allows Gods Unchained to be distributed on the Epic Games Launcher and potentially exposed to hundreds of millions of new users! — Read more

Phantom Galaxies Opens Phase 2 - Beta 2

Following up on their very successful series of Alpha playtests, Phantom Galaxies opened up their first Beta Phase a little over a month ago to a very small set of their players. Now, after a few weeks of testing, they are ready to expand this phase to include a larger playerbase, though you still need to own an NFT to participate. — Read now

Synergy of Serra Open Alpha

Synergy of Serra moves into an open alpha phase, allowing anyone to download and play the alpha for their unique take on the TCG genre. Officially, this version is a ‘proto-alpha’, so it’s still pretty rough around the edges. But the game is playable, and it has a very interesting take on the deck building aspect of trading card games! — Read more

Arc8 adds League Play and Battle Pass

Arc8 releases a major update to their platform of casual, competitive, mobile games, with a league-based system, and a battle pass. These two new avenues of advancement offer daily and earn opportunities for all players! — Read more

Craft in Alpha Season 3 of My Neighbor Alice

My Neighbor Alice, the web3 farming and building game reminiscent of Stardew Valley, prepares to launch into season 3 of their alpha. And this season brings a number of big updates, including crafting, connection to the Chromia appnet, and a free trial system for players who don’t own any land plots for the game! — Read more

Additional Gaming Headlines from this week

Open Campus Free Genesis NFT Mint

🐲 Mobox Introduces New MoDragon Adventures

🎵 Join Warner Music in The Sandbox Land Sale

Sky City Beta Adds Conversational AI NPCs

HV-MTL Forge Game Launching June 29th

🏆 Top NFT Collections and Games this Week – June 18

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