This Week in Crypto Games: ‘FIFA Rivals’ Announced, ‘MemeFi’ Airdrop, and ‘Pac-Man’ NFTs

The crypto and Luckily, Our weekend roundup serves up the biggest news from the past week, along with a few other tidbits you might have missed. We also showcase a few of our original stories from the week.Mythical Games, a blockchain gaming studio, is teaming up with sports organization FIFA to create a new Mythical Games is the studio behind NFL Rivals, another licensed free-to-play mobile sports game that is built around optional NFTs. FIFA Rivals will similarly utilize the Mythos chain and let players collect and trade professional soccer stars, both past and present.Telegram tap-to-earn game MemeFi launched its token on Friday via the Sui network. Like most Telegram game airdrops so far, the MEMEFI token is already down substantially from its opening price, with CoinGecko showing a nearly 50% dip at a current price of $0.0057. Whether it can rebound may depend on the future plans for the game and ecosystem.Pac-Man NFTs: Flickplay, an NFT interactive character platform, has teamed with Bandai Namco Entertainment—one of its investors—to launch a Pokémon Go-style scavenger hunt to celebrate the 45th anniversary of classic arcade game, Pac-Man.Set to debut in February 2025, the partnership will begin with the release of two series of exclusive Pac-Man digital collectible “toys.” The first of which will only be available to those within Shibuya, the Japanese neighborhood where Pac-Man was first seen in the 1980s, in a Pokémon Go-style scavenger hunt. The second collection will be available globally via the Flickplay store. Drumroll, the TGE Airdrop! ⭐With the TGE right around the corner, enjoy this airdrop! To be eligible for this airdrop, players must have transacted on the Open Loot marketplace or completed a Prestige Portal since October 2023.We hope you enjoyed the TGE… pic.twitter.com/R0KWOTqoZC— Open Loot (@OpenLoot) November 18, 2024Here are a few of our original stories from this past week that we think are well worth a weekend read:Edited by Andrew Hayward