What a rollercoaster ride this week has been. Lots of cool announcements with land sales, pre-sales, and product updates. This week’s headlines involved games platform Steam and a ban on NFT games, while Axie Infinity introduced restrictions for earning SLP. Most hyped new product announcement goes to NiftyVille, which has already been dubbed as the blockchain version of GTA. Several other games announced play-to-earn updates, including Decimated, Kingdom Karnage and Along with the Gods. Enjoy this week’s newsletter, and spread the love!
— Robert Hoogendoorn

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12 Avatar NFT Projects with Gaming Use Cases

Alongside the play-to-earn revolution, there’s an incredible hype surrounding avatar NFTs. The idea is that these NFTs give you access to exclusive communities, content or other NFT drops. These 12 avatars can also be using in gaming environments! — See the full list

Lower Level Accounts Can’t Earn SLP Anymore

Sky Mavis has restricted the SLP earning opportunities. Only players of a high enough level will now be able to earn tokens… you can expect the backlash on this of course. — Read more about this!

Steam Strikes Again and Removes Age of Rust

Gabe Newell and his infinite wisdom (sarcasm) has decided to block all games that use NFTs or crypto. Age of Rust is the next one, reporting its departure from Steam. — Continue reading

Aavegotchi Land Sale Starts October 28th

Aavegotchi is perhaps one of the most advanced GameFi projects on the market, and they will now introduce players to the Gotchiverse. Their land sale will happen at the end of the month. — Learn more about the auction system

Play Crazy Defense Heroes and Earn YGG Tokens

In the coming 8 weeks you can earn extra TOWER and YGG tokens if you manage to make enough XP playing Crazy Defense Heroes. — Learn how to earn TOWER and YGG tokens

Onessus Announced NFT-powered Virtual World NiftyVille

You just need to watch the announcement trailer of NiftyVille. It looks cool and this could potentially be GTA Online, but with NFTs and play-to-earn. — See the trailer

Space Misfits Will Introduce FPS Combat

Space Misfits is a game in the Enjin ecosystem, and for some reason it’s always a bit overlooked. These developers really put lots of effort in their game world, and this time they are adding FPS gameplay! — Discover more about Space Misfits

Other gaming headlines

🌍 A Quick Introduction into Beyond Earth Online — A new virtual world

⚔ Kingdom Karnage to Introduce KARNAGE Tokens — KARNAGE Coming soon

🤖 Gamee G-Bots Presale Coming in November — Rolling out!

👨‍🏫 HodlGod Allows NFT Lending Through Scholarships — Student becomes master

📱 Register for Along with the Gods Play-to-Earn Server — Sign up now

👮‍♂️ Online Survival Game Decimated Will Get Play-to-Earn Economy — on Polygon!

🌳 Treeverse Speeds Up Development with Funding by Animoca — Strong roots

😵 Breeders Staking Enters Testing Phase on Wax — Test breeding…

💪 OP Games Wants 500 Play-to-Earn Games by Late 2022 — Ambitious!

💎 Chainmonsters Closed Beta in November — Looking so good!

🤯 Cradles: Origin of Species Received Seed Investment — ERC-3664

🕚 Doctor Who Officially Moving to Polygon — Cheap and fast for everybody