This Week in Crypto Games: Major ‘Off the Grid’ Update, GameStop’s $5 Billion Bitcoin Proposal

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 get caught in the latest movements around crypto video games, we are happy to present in Crypto games this week.

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

Outside the grid update: The popular avalanche shooter of the schedule has branded what it is branded as its “biggest update so far” by unlocking a region of the map, adding a new cyberlimb to the game together with a fresh “street event”.

Midtown Harbor, described as an ‘industrial Hellengat’, has been unlocked as a playable region on Teachrop Island – the first step in unlocking the remaining 80% of the map. Within this region, players can fight with the Mexican gang called Nuestros Diablos in an attempt to steal a hex of them – which can then be extracted in exchange for weapons, cyber limming or skins.

Moreover, the first side mission of the game has been added, so that players try to dominate the area around a DJ stand to earn loot and experience points. Moreover, the Maxigun Cyberlimb has been added to the game, so that you can put on what is essentially a mini -gatling gun like an arm.

Gamestop CEO Bitcoin -Reaction: Ryan Cohen, the CEO of Gamestop“ Recognized a proposal from Strive Asset Management which recommends that the video game -retailer $ 5 million of his cash reversals converts into Bitcoin. This step, Strive Claims, would make the “Premier Bitcoin Treasury Company in the game sector” from Gamestop.

The letter It argues that Bitcoin is a superior alternative for keeping cash, which it describes as a “shrinking active” because of inflation. It points to recent changes in the accounting rules that make companies not -realized bitcoin profit recognized as a profit, making it a more attractive company for business corks.

On Tuesday, Cohen published on X: “Received letter” – But didn’t go any further. Gamestop did not respond DecryptThe request for comments. The retailer had an earlier dalliance with the crypto world with its short-lived NFT marketplace, Plus Cohen recently posted a photo of himself with Michael Saylor of Strategy (formerly MicroSstrategy)-the leading Bitcoin Reserve Company with almost $ 47 billion in the coin.

Hamster Kombat Layer-2: Telegram Crypto Game Hamster Kombat now has his own Layer-2 network, called The Hamster Network, which was launched on the Open Network (Ton) last Tuesday.

The new network claims to offer a fast and scalable infrastructure for games and other crypto apps, with a “negligible costs per transaction”. The Hamster Network was made in collaboration with Ton and wants to help bring more of the almost one billion users of Telegram to the crypto world through interactive mini apps and games.

This is after the recent launch of the HamstersThose multiple games will span that were built around Hamster Kombat.

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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 Andrew Hayward