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Hamster Kombat ‘HamsterVerse’, Telegram Game Airdrop Updates

NBTCBy NBTC06/01/2025No Comments5 Mins Read
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The crypto and NFT gaming space is busier than ever lately, what with prominent games starting to release, token airdrops piling up, and a seemingly constant array of other things happening at all times. It’s a lot to take in!

Luckily, Decrypt’s GG is all over it. And if you need a quick way to get caught up on the latest moves around crypto video games, we’re happy to present This Week in Crypto Games.

Our weekend roundup serves up the biggest news from the past week-plus—this is an extended edition due to the holidays—along with a few other tidbits you might have missed.

Biggest news

Hamster Kombat TON layer-2: After the fourth-largest gaming token launch of 2024, the makers of Telegram tap-to-earn game Hamster Kombat revealed plans to create a layer-2 network on top of The Open Network (TON).

This came after a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) vote overwhelmingly voted in favor of the move, with 1.1 billion HMSTR token voting power in favor and just 104,368 against. However, it’s worth noting that the top two voters hold over 88% of all voting power as of this writing, giving a couple of whales immense influence.

Prior to this, the devs announced that Hamster Kombat’s hotly anticipated (and much-delayed) second season will be “more than just a game,” with three games now in the works to become the core of an entertainment ecosystem using the IP. Called HamsterVerse, a closed beta is already underway for 30,000 community members.

📋IT’S CLOSED-BETA TESTING TIME 📋

Excited to announce that we have chosen 30,000 community users who will help us and participate in Closed-Beta Testing of Season 2/HamsterVerse!

All the invites were sent through the Hamster Kombat bot on Telegram.

If you haven’t received… pic.twitter.com/X3TqyaTOIR

— Hamster Kombat (@hamster_kombat) December 28, 2024

Off the Grid stands tall: As the end of the year dawned, Avalanche-based shooter Off the Grid raked in some media accolades. Not only did it win GG’s Game of the Year, but the battle royale shooter also won Gam3s’ Game of the Year award and made it to a Rolling Stone year-end gaming list.

Gunzilla Games shared its 2025 plans with Decrypt alongside the GOTY honors. Most notably, this includes an estimated Q1 2025 date for its GUNZ network to enter mainnet, which would enable its GUN token to be freely traded. Before then, the studio wants to launch ranked and solo queue modes, and open up the remaining 80% of the map while kicking off the game’s storyline.

After that, Gunzilla will be looking to onboard third-party developers to the GUNZ network, and is even eying a possible Telegram mini app for the ecosystem. It should be a big year for one of crypto gaming’s biggest success stories to date.

Illuvium’s next steps: Crypto gaming franchise Illuvium announced how it will be moving forward in the new year. The project previously launched three titles that fed into each other, both through shared resources and a narrative loop—but focusing on all three titles has been too challenging. Going forward, the team will prioritize efforts on one game at a time, starting with the auto-battler Illuvium Arena.

The lengthy blog post also touches on plans to reduce microtransactions, add more content, and raise more funding. Perhaps most significantly, the post ponders the possibility of temporarily shutting down the flagship title Illuvium Overworld until it is a “fully realized experience.” But coming into 2025, improving the Overworld MMO experience is said to be the Illuvium team’s “top priority.”

🌟 A New Dawn for Illuvium: Overworld 🌟

Rangers, it’s time to look ahead as Co-Founder & CEO @KieranWarwick shares Illuvium’s next chapter in his latest blog update. From refining our gameplay experiences to transforming Overworld into an immersive MMO Lite, here’s what’s in… https://t.co/JEtfW6alO0 pic.twitter.com/bHG543DoPq

— Illuvium (@illuviumio) December 20, 2024

ICYMI

  • Telegram game Catizen distributed rewards to airdrop pass holders on Friday, which saw holders receive three different tokens.
  • Iconic gaming brand Atari revealed a new handheld console, the “My Arcade.”
  • Zoo, a surging Telegram game with over 12 million players, confirmed that its mining phase will end on January 31 and that one in-game ZOO token will be equal to one future on-chain token.
  • Sonic SVM confirmed that players of its TikTok tap-to-earn game will receive a SONIC airdrop on the Solana blockchain.
  • Crypto trading card game Parallel crossed 6 million games played in the history of its existence, with developers claiming that it currently averages 200,000 games a week.
  • Telegram game Cat Gold Miner announced that its token will be listed on Bitget, Gate, MEXC, and other exchanges on Thursday, January 9.
  • Someone turned the iconic first-person shooter Doom into a CAPTCHA human verification challenge.
  • GameStop meme stock icon Roaring Kitty posted a GIF that sent gaming stock Unity Software surging on Thursday.
  • Gaming prediction market Forkcast announced it will launch onto Ethereum sidechain gaming network Ronin.
  • Parallel’s open beta Season 11, called Hounds of Havoc, kicked off on Thursday.

//Servers Online

OPEN BETA SEASON 11: Hounds of Havoc has begun.

Learn more by visiting this season’s blog:https://t.co/IYV3exAuhi pic.twitter.com/3B1sLvAv2n

— Parallel (@ParallelTCG) January 2, 2025

  • Crypto shooter Shrapnel recapped 2024, saying that it hosted over 3.7 million sessions of the game.
  • Mobile crypto game Honeyland started its Ancient Bee minting event, with players being rewarded in SOL prizes.
  • Ubisoft’s blockchain battle arena shooter Captain Laserhawk: The G.A.M.E. showed off its battle pass.

GG spotlight

Here are a few of our original stories from this past couple weeks that we think are well worth a weekend read:

Edited by Andrew Hayward


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