This Week in Crypto Games: Dr. Disrespect Dumped, Pixelverse and Catizen Tokens, Notcoin ‘Fresh Start’

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. Midnight Society, the studio building the first-person shooter game The studio’s move led fans to More Telegram tokens: Telegram-based games are the biggest thing happening in crypto gaming right now, and two more notable games made their token plans clearer last week. Pixelverse, a cyberpunk-themed gaming ecosystem that has a rising Telegram combat game called PixelTap, announced Friday that it will launch its token on The Open Network (TON)—the same network as Notcoin and the upcoming Hamster Kombat token.Meanwhile, another hot Telegram game called Catizen—a puzzle matching game with cartoon cats—announced over the weekend that its TON token drop is planned for July. That’s right around the corner! Viral Telegram game Soon after, some type of new beginning was teased in the official Notcoin Telegram channel. While everything is still unclear, it appears to relate to TON NFT collection Lost Dogs Co, after following breadcrumbs left by the Notcoin team. This may have something to do with Studio369, the developer behind the sci-fi mech shooter On Thursday, MetalCore’s Closed Beta 3 (CB3) started featuring session-based PvP esports competitions, including Domination, Capture the Flag, and High-Value Target modes. Then on Friday, Studio369 conducted the token generation event for its MCG token across Ethereum’s mainnet and Worldwide Webb rebrands: Worldwide Webb, a retro-style Ethereum NFT game, announced last week that it is rebranding to Soulbound as it embraces a new sci-fi narrative path forward. Soulbound is a roguelite game that challenges players to clear dungeons full of enemies while trying different tactics and character builds.At the same time, Soulbound announced that it’s building the game to be playable within popular gaming chat app Discord, after winning in the Discord App Pitches 2024 competition.”We see Discord as the future for gamers, so we needed a brand name that breaks away from the web and launches us into next-gen platform gaming,” Soulbound founder and CEO Thomas Webb told Decrypt’s GG. “This name gives us the freedom to build a universe around Soulbound without any preconceived notions. After years of brainstorming, we finally nailed it.”Introducing Soulbound. pic.twitter.com/ZGQi061wIY— Worldwide Webb (@Worldwide_WEB3) June 27, 2024 Partnership: @0xMantle X Game7 Introducing LootDrop → G7’s newest release!Over the next 5 weeks, complete quests and climb the ranks to earn a share of the 2 Million $MNT prize pool!Be on the lookout for special weekly Lootboxes Participate now:… pic.twitter.com/frHqDIe6Aa— Game7 DAO (@G7_DAO) June 27, 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