This Week in Crypto Games: CryptoKitties Hit Telegram, ‘X Empire’ Flip-Flop, and ‘Moonray’ Goes Mobile

The crypto 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.Classic Telegram gaming exploded in popularity this year, tempting Dapper Labs—the collection’s creator—to jump in on the craze. CryptoKitties: All The Zen tasks you with tapping and rubbing an egg as you upgrade and unlock various in-game cats, and i Elon Musk-themed Telegram game Rewards earned from the initial mining phase will not be affected as they have already been calculated and allocated. Instead, an additional 5% of the total token supply—another 34.5 billion X tokens—has been assigned to a new rewards campaign set to last only a couple of weeks before the token airdrop.The makers of Ethereum action game Also known as “auto chess,” the strategy genre sees gamers place characters on a board, and they’ll automatically fight the opposition. Riot’s Teamfight Tactics is the most popular example, but Moonray’s entry into the genre claims to have “more in-depth resource management and counter play,” as well as Web3 integration.The Pudgy Arcade is here.Our Polar Challenge game is now live across various arcades in the USA.Learn more and see it live below. pic.twitter.com/SyCVsvrEPK— Pudgy Penguins (@pudgypenguins) September 29, 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