Tags: gaming

From Mafia and Madden to Metal Gear and Shinobi, this month is a full-on revival tour for some of gaming’s greatest franchises.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin wrote the original ETH whitepaper while battling World of Warcraft distractions—and now you can do the same.

Steam dumped adult games following pressure on payment providers. Now, Collective Shout says crypto payment firms could be targeted next.

PC game Chemia appears to have been removed from Steam after a cybersecurity firm said the game was loaded with crypto-jacking malware.

Quinn Campbell says the future of on-chain games depends on building a system that can fail fast—and learn faster.

Players can now export their Off the Grid skins to sell on the NFT marketplace OpenSea, available to anyone to buy.

In a positive wrinkle, the makers of Tokyo Beast will compensate NFT owners and some TGT token holders amid the game’s closure.

The Arena-Z ecosystem will feature two additional League of Kingdoms games, a fresh A2Z token, and more. Here’s what to expect.

Off the Grid‘s GUN token has expanded from Avalanche to Solana, while the list of crypto games shut down in 2025 only grew last week.

The flexibility of Arbitrum’s tech stack should make the layer-2 network a go-to for game developers, Offchain Labs CEO Steven Goldfeder said.

Fractional Uprising‘s team has shifted gears after its token plummeted, hoping to draw in degens with AI-generated nudity and crypto gambling.

After first launching on Avalanche, the GUN token from shooter game Off the Grid is now coming to Solana—and maybe more chains ahead.

EverQuest and Planetside co-creator John Smedley reveals NFT game Reaper Actual, what‘s ahead for MapleStory Universe, and more.

John Smedley believes his new studio’s ambitious shooter Reaper Actual will sell gamers on blockchain, because it is “Web3 done right.”

Flappy Racquet puts a tennis twist on Flappy Bird, implementing Wimbledon stars as playable NFT characters ahead of the SCOR airdrop.

Gambling on a coin flip isn’t bad odds when you’ve spent all day in the meme coin trenches—plus Token Yugijo gives you an AI-powered pal.

Blockchain game Captain Laserhawk: The G.A.M.E. is integrating AI agents that can make governance decisions on behalf of players.

Following the launch of Avalanche game MapleStory N, Nexpace plans on expanding the broader MapleStory Universe in various ways. Here‘s how.

Avalanche card game Raini: The Lords of Light is closing soon, Eve Frontier launched a free trial period, and more.

July’s light on blockbusters, but Switch 2 shines with Donkey Kong Bananza, while Grounded 2 and Ninja Gaiden keep things interesting.

“It is becoming clearer to gamers that [blockchain] is the technology that allows us to unlock our vision for the game that they want.”

Blockchain games are closing left and right, with Avalanche-based NFT card game Raini: The Lords of Light the latest to join the list.

Ethereum gaming protocol B3 is launching a PC with self-destruct storage, Avalanche dropped a battle pass with rewards for players, and more.

From analog sticks to motion controls, these are the games that didn’t just launch on a console; they defined what it could do.