🎮 Nexon, one of the largest game publishers across Asia, is creating a new Web3 game based on its popular pixelated 2D role-playing franchise, called MapleStory Universe — and it taps Polygon for the game. Nexon announced at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Universal Pictures has released a new film "Renfield", which starred Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage. Using the Aptos blockchain, the Hollywood studio create an interactive online game and lottery that will allow participants to win both digital and physical collectibles.

📌Cloud service provider Alibaba Cloud announced the launch of a "blockchain lab" in Japan to create Web3 games. This is stated in the press release. The opening is scheduled for April.

Web3 is certainly diversifying the gaming world. Some media outlets have reported the gaming industry to have outgrown both the movie and sports industries. In fact, the main hook for seasoned gamers is their ability to merge the thrill of playing and winning with earning money.

Shiba Eternity, the Shiba Inu-based card battle game, recently upgraded to version 1.1.7. The latest update contains fewer changelogs but has been noted to be equally important in improving the game’s memory and performance optimizations.

🔱Gods Unchained embodies the future of trading card gameplay. Each game involves tactical decision-making, resource management and card-based combat, with the ultimate goal of reducing the power of the opponent’s guard to zero.

Los Angeles-based entertainment studio Feature.io announced yesterday that it is developing Lollipop, an interactive, Web3 multimedia car racing experience with “The Fast and Furious” co-writer and “Suicide Squad” director David Ayer attached as its writer and executive producer.

📈Games with elements of blockchain technology attracted $739 million in the first quarter of 2023. March 2023 turned out to be a breakthrough month for blockchain games, as it accounted for 60% of investments collected by crypto games for the first quarter of 2023.

🏙️The developer of the game on the Mini Royale blockchain, Faraway, has entered into cooperation with the Novel Labs team, the author of the NFT project Mutant Cartel, to launch the urban planning game Serum City, which takes place in Yugaverse from Yuga Labs.

⛓️The creator of Razer computer gaming equipment has launched a venture fund to invest in blockchain games and Web3 products. This is reported on the official website. The fund is called zVentures, and its partners are Animoca Brands, Amazon Web Services and others.

🔗Gamers in Asia are predicted to make up the vast majority of the Web3 gaming market, according to a DappRadar study. The study found that Asia already has 55% of the global gaming population with 1.7 billion players.

Gamers in Africa can now send and receive small amounts of Bitcoin while playing classic titles like Counter Strike. Zebedee has partnered with crypto exchange platform Bitnob to offer payments and gaming reward options in Africa using the Bitcoin Lightning Network.

🆕 Tezos India and GoLive Games have launched a free-to-play NFT cricket strategy game called "Cricket Stars" on the Tezos blockchain. The partnership highlights the role of blockchain technology in the gaming industry, said GoLive Games founder Ravi Kiran.

The famous Japanese game publisher Square Enix announced a partnership with the Elixir platform to popularize games with Web3 elements. With the help of Square Enix, the company plans to continue bluring the lines between Web2-era gaming projects and the developing Web3 industry.

The licensed NFL Rivals mobile game became available in the early phase in the App Store and Google Play. It was reported by the developer of the fantasy project Mythical Games. In addition, the creators of the project announced the upcoming migration to the Polkadot blockchain.

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