Web3 game studio InfiniGods' debut game InfiniMerge came out of beta and is available to the public. The company said it has attracted more than 1,000 players since coming out of beta. The game is available on desktop with full mobile support coming later this year.

It’s not shocking that play-to-earn gaming has taken over the cryptocurrency world. Here are the top 5 play-to-earn games of the week:

🔹The Sandbox
🔹Star Atlas
🔹Decentraland
🔹Axie Infinity
🔹My Neighbor Alice

According to the publication, the company's CEO John Linden intends to find funding during meetings with investors in Dubai. In August 2021, it closed the $150 million Series C round with an estimate of $1.25 billion. It was headed by the venture company Andreessen Horowitz.

On Thursday, DappRadar dropped its 2022 overview of the blockchain gaming industry.

The review highlights some interesting trends from last year that will likely define 2023. That includes an increase in on-chain transactions and the number of unique active wallets.

Cross-chain margin platform Prime Protocol launched its testnet on Arbitrum yesterday, and will be the first cross-chain brokerage that allows users to take out margin on their entire account — regardless of what chain they are on.

Neon Link, a blockchain gaming company, announced its opening of the presale of the $NEON token, taking place on the 15th February, which is set to fuel the next generation of games that sit on top of the project’s own cross-chain network.

Xborg, the web3 gaming organization from Swissborg, announced on Feb. 1 that it is launching a web3 esports league entitled Xtreme Championship Series.

📋The league will include web3 games Axie Infinity, The Harvest, Gods Unchained, Spider Tanks.

Axie Infinity’s users can stake their land and NFTs on-chain. One must assess the value of their digital assets using the MetaLend-provided calculator and borrow ETH against the asset for up to 30% of the asset's value before earning a staking reward.

🔝Decentralized gaming platform Ajuna Network has raised $5 million in a new private funding round led by blockchain-focused venture capital firm CMCC Global. The announcement coincided with the Friday launch of the startup’s "Awesome Ajuna Avatars" NFT game collection.

📉Web3 games have become a bright spot this decadent year for the industry whose funding has run out. This may not happen much longer if interest in blockchain games continues to weaken.

The Japanese company Square Enix, which developed the game franchises Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, is working with the Polygon blockchain to launch the gamified NFT project Symbiogenesis. It was firstly announced in November 2022.

Game Web3 firm Unagi announced the successful completion of the initial round of financing in the amount of $5m. The developers of the French startup expand the NFT fantasy sports platform beyond football and were going to integrate NFTs on the topic of basketball.

📈According to a new report from DappRadar, in the first month of 2023, gamers made up nearly half (48%) of all blockchain activity. January also saw the market caps for top gaming tokens increase by 122% on average.

📊DappRadar and Blockchain Gaming Association estimated that the gaming onchain activity of blockchain game users in January amounted to 858,621 unique active wallets per day. This is almost half of the total activity in decentralized applications.

Investment firm Pantera Capital invested $10m in the multiplayer online role-playing game Worldwide Webb during the Serie A funding round. Players can participate in quests and interact with the virtual economy of the browser MMORPG, buying ‘lands’ and ‘immovable property’.

The developers of the Volt Inu crypto project have released the debut version of the new Battle Royale game using non-fungible token technology (NFT). Its peculiarity is that gamers can install it on their personal computer.

📊Ben GCrypto disclosed the top-10 GameFi project. ApeCoin, the Internet Computer and the Sandbox top the list with a market capitalization of about $2 billion. Other projects that make up the list include Axie Infinity, Immutable X, Enjin Coin, FLOKI, Magic, Gala, and STEPN.

📈Shytoshi Kusama, Shiba Inu’s lead developer, has increased the prize pool for a community-run Shiba Eternity tournament to $1,000.

The Shiba Inu lead also suggested that the tournament be done biweekly instead of monthly.