Avalon raised $10M, Illuvium: ~$22M Airdrop, Smolbound Trailer, ArenaX Labs, and more...

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TLDR :

• Avalon raised $10M

• Illuvium ~$19M P2A event

• Smolbound: official trailer

• ArenaX Labs is building AI-gaming infrastructure

🗞️ NEWS

• Avalon announced a $10M funding round led by Hashed and Bitkraft

• Paradise Tycoon announced a $2M seed round (P2A coming soon)

• Smolbound launched its official trailer - it includes some gameplay (+ they launched a SocialFi campaign)

• ArenaX Labs, the makers of AI Arena announced ARC and SAI to reshape the future of gaming with AI-tech

• Xterio partners with Forge to support the SocialFi campaign and launch of $XTER

• Sui announced the SuiPlay0X1, powered by blockchain (+ there will be airdrops)

• Nyan Heroes shared that 20% of its player base during their pre-alpha were non-web3 players

• Bored Slot, a social slots gaming company by Spin City just raised $10M

• Legends of Arcadia might be the next low-supply (500 NFTs) Web3 gaming cook

• XBORG is opening its presale on the 25th of April (need to KYC to participate)

• Maplestory Universe will have financial PvP, on-chain/off-chain assets, and more

• 90,000 $RIFT Passes were distributed during Chronoforge’s mint event

• ZTX is developing its ecosystem chain to support the launch of the ZTX mobile app

• Eternal Dragons didn’t find PMF and is shutting down, but has an NFT buyback plan

• Mocaverse shared the details on its tokenomics: 53% will go to community allocations

• Block Games experiences are rocky token launch, read here about the drama

• Planet Atmos shares an update on what they have been working on and what’s coming

• People are saying: “OogaVerse will be the next Blast Cook” - launching on the 22nd of April

• Animoca Brands partners with Imaginary Ones to define its GTM-strategy

• SkyArk Chronicles shares its Vision Map (but kind of copied San FranTokyo)

• The Mon Protocol announced another partner: Kokodi

• Gala Games partners up with BSD Gambit to promote interoperability

• Astro Nova gets welcomed to the Portal ecosystem

• STEPN partners with Adidas and will launch 1,000 co-branded Sneaker NFTs

• STEPN completed its 100M $GMT airdrop to the badge and Genesis holders

• A LinkedIn post shows that The Walking Dead: Empires Team on GALA was laid off

• AneeMate shares a trailer of what we can expect for its Early Access

🗓️ EVENTS

• Spellborne launched its Pre-Season P2A event - start earning points now

• Pirate Nation’s Season 1 of Jolly Roger is now live - you can actively collect BOOTY points now

• Illuvium is launching its P2A Private Beta 4, with a 200K $ILV (~$19M) prize pool, the other 50K $ILV is distributed through Loyalty Points

• Polygon announces GameOn 2.0 - 12 games, 8 live events, and $30k in rewards

• Love Monster launched its Zealy campaign - complete quests, earn XP towards the $LOVE airdrop

• The Age of Dino Beta is live now, you can farm DIO points for an allocation

• Shards announced its SocialFi campaign - quests, points, airdrop

• Honeyland launched its P2A campaign - read here how you can get involved

• Kuroro Beasts is concluding its first P2A event on the 19th but will start the second wave quickly

• SOMO and Portal Coin launched the Crystal Dash event

• The Machines Arena’s open beta is launching on the 23rd of April on Epic and Android

• Register for Project Awakening’s Phase3 playtest on the 21st of May

🆕ALPHA CORNER

• Early Games: The Chain Hunters, Tilt Shift, Freak Off, and Anomaly.

  • Early Games Twitter List

  • Blast Games Twitter List

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