This Week in Crypto Games: ‘Fortnite’ Pumps Solana Coin, ‘Deadrop’ Players Get Refunds

The crypto and NFT Gaming Space has been busier lately than ever, which with prominent games that start to release, token airdrops accumulate and an apparently constant range of other things that happen at all times. It’s a lot to take!

Happy, Decrypt‘s GG is completely over it. And if you need a quick way to make up for the latest movements around crypto video games, we are happy to present this week in Crypto games.

Our weekend round serves the biggest news of the past week, along with a few other facts that you might have missed. We also present a few of our original stories of the week.

Biggest news

Fortnite Storyline pumps token: The last season of the hugely popular Battle Royale Fortntie surrounds one Pickle Criminal Rapper named Big Dill The one is fleeing after an alleged crypto rug, with a fake news anchor that claims that he “had launched a crypto -meme news called Dill Bits.”

Crypto days had already clicked on Dill -Bits two weeks earlierAfter it was added as a new form of in-game currency for high loot in Fortnite, and a real (albeit unofficial) version of it via Solana Launchpad Pump.fun. Despite no official ties with the game, token quickly achieved a market capitalization of $ 4.78 million, but dropped to only $ 145,000 as attention collected.

After the social media video of Fortnite about the crypto Shenanigans of Big Dill, the Solana Meme Coin raised 4,300% to a market capitalization of $ 4.72 million. Since then, however, it has fallen again, so that credibility is added to the statement of the news anchor that you should never “take financial advice from a pickle”.

Deadrop -users receive refunds: Storm players from the stopped extraction shooter Van Streek Dead have started claiming refunds through their banks. Midnight SocietyThe game studio behind the shooter, had sold early access passes, including $ 50 NFTs and several non-NFT passes priced between $ 20 and $ 30. But users claim that they have not fully received the products for which they have paid.

Those who $ 25 tower keySo that users could play early access claim that they did not receive the promised “season 0 battle pass” that would be expected to be delivered in addition to the full match. Buyers of the later driver’s keys say that the items were never available to be used in the game, nor were they once tradable as promised. Decrypt Assessed evidence that users successfully received refunds for their purchases after they had contacted their banks.

Co-founder and creative director of Midnight Society Quinn Delhoyo told Decrypt Last August it was planning to release the entire competition in the autumn of 2025. However, the studio struggled after the resignation of his co-founder, popular streamer Dr. Disrespect Inappropriate conversations with a minor. In September it dismissed a “considerable” part of his workforce and was then completely closed in January – the hope for his dedicated fan base.

Sega -Franchise on sui: Parasol, a subsidiary of the gaming infrastructure of SII Network employee Mysten Labs, announced on Friday that Joker’s trade card code to be launched will be launched on the Sui Blockchain soon.

The Code of Joker franchise was originally made for Arcades in 2013 by iconic video company Sega, but was later picked up and licensed by Jokers Inc. He is now trying to breathe new life into the series. THowever, the game has a crypto twist because players possess in-game cards via NFTS on the Sui Blockchain.

It is worth noting that Sega does not develop a code of Joker: evolutions itself, it is simply licenses of the franchise to a Jokers Inc. While Sega has said it is willing to license his IPs The larger franchises such as Sonic The Hedgehog are not for picking up until this experimental phase is over.

ICYMI

• The man who one Flight simulator with the help of AI tools complete says he made $ 87,000 From the game in just 17 days.
• Buzzy Crypto Battle Royale of the schedule has added Solo mode back in the game After a short test period last week
• Telegram Anime-inspired football match Captain Tsubasa Rivals secure $ 5 million in financing, affirmative That it is expanding its mini app retailing to feed the growth.
• Crypto Gaming Community Wolvesdao released are woofing up Avalanche.
• Space Nation Online launched his oik -token WednesdayOpening AirDrop claims for those who are eligible
• Metaverse platform Decentraland Unveiled the line-up For the MetaSes Fashion Week, which takes place from April 9 to April 12
• Sugartown Studio D20 Labs, led by former employees of Zynga, says that Important announcements of ecosystem expansion come soon.
• Holders of SuiPlay0x1 NFTS received ExclusiveFor the planned release of the handheld Crypto Console later this year
• Ethereum game platform Nifty Island Sent a Guild Wars function on Monday.
• Seminal Play-Earn Game Axie Infinity launched its eighth competitive season MondayAdding 66 new cards in the process.
• Ethereum NFT -Handelskaartgel Goden Unchained Migrated From unchanging to unchanging ZKEVM.
• Abstract role -play game onchain -heroes added one Gacha system—Stentially plunder that items can unlock.
• Collectible Card Game Wildcard launched his toilet -token on Ethereum, while players can do that Register for Playtesting steam
• Web3 Gaming Studio Sugarverse concluded a $ 1 million financing round and confirmed that his first informal mobile game, Sugar Match, will debut this summer on Tezos Layer-2 Network Etholink

GG Spotlight

Here are a few of our original stories from the past week that we think they are worth a weekend, read: read:

Published by James Rubin