‘Maplestory N’ touches avalanche, Solana’s ‘Nyan Heroes’

It is difficult to keep an eye on the ever-changing crypto-gaming space, thanks to the constant stream of news: everything, from large game launches and fun those experiments to token price fluctuations and incidental project collapses. It is a lot to follow.

Fortunately we are connected to Decrypt‘s Gg. We treat the biggest events during the week, and then this weekly Roundup offers a fast way to catch up, and find a number of other small pieces of news from the entire week.

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Maplestory n now live: MapLestory N was launched on the Avalanche Blockchain and marks what is praised as one of the greatest crypto game releases to date. The game combines the well-known 2D MMORPG gameplay of the 22-year-old franchise with Crypto Tech, so that players in the game can possess and trade. The launch led to a peak of 549% in Avalanche active addresses and included the largest NFT mint of the network ever -more than 1.7 million free scroll -NFTs.

The token of the ecosystem, Nexpace (NXPC), rose to a peak market hairstyle above $ 600 million after the launch on Wednesday and has arranged slightly less than $ 400 million from Sunday. That makes it one of the largest gaming tokens on the market at the moment.

Nyan Heroes is ready: The Solana -based cat theme hero shot Nyan Heroes is concluded after he had not obtained any extra financing, announced 9 Lives Interactive on Friday. Despite completing four play tests via the Epic Games store, holding a Nyan token AirDrop and attracting more than a million players, the PC title in Overwatch-Stijl could not overcome recent financial challenges in the industry.

9 Levens CEO Max Fu told Decrypt That acquisition discussions are underway, but can take time to produce results. The Nyan -Token fell 40% after the announcement and now act almost 99% under the peak of May 2024. Other similar announcements of the crypto game are the Mystery Society and The Walking Dead: Empires: Empires.

Pixelmon takes Avax: Pokémon-inspired crypto-gaming franchise Pixelmon launches his flagship mobile RPG Warden’s Ascent on Avalanche in the second half of 2025, together with various other upcoming titles. While the Pixelmon core activa remain on Ethereum and his existing “Monster Tycoon” game remains on unchanging ZKEVM, all future projects will implement on Avalanche.

Pixelmon CEO Giulio Xiloyannis called Avalanche’s ability to get millions of gamers on board and the potential for a special Pixelmon L1 (AKA Subnet) as important factors in the decision. This partnership is a strategic shift for Pixelmon, which has been transformed from a ridiculous NFT project in 2022 to a multi-game franchise with a mobile first strategy.

ICYMI

• Crypto game experiment of a week started DX Terminal and set up 36,000 tokenized AI agents with Vecht to collect Faux Meme coins. Early the traders are in coins with a hot dog theme.

• A slider.io clone called Noodle.GG went viral last week and had players eat each other’s snakes to steal their crypto. A corresponding Solana Meme Coin became hot.
• Ethereum Game Pixels now has a flirting challenge with an AI agent, which results in what some players call a “Rizz-to-earn” mini game with token releases and a potential future AirDrop, too.

• Fortnite’s new AI-driven talking Darth Vader-character immediately went out of track last week, spewed Letjes and Expletives to Epic Games pushed a hotfix.
• The adidas NFT clothing drop for Sui -Game Xociety was sold out in 20 seconds.

• Immutables-based crypto-game Blast Royale is closed. The developers are planning to open the game for the community to tinker with.
• Sugartown sold through its 7,777 item Cores NFT-Drop on Ethereum Layer-2 Network Abstract.

• The popular Metaverse app Vrchat is launching its own Avatar marketplace. No, it doesn’t use NFTs.
• Off the grid gradually adds more players to his Avalanche L1 Minnet, making it possible on-chain trade from in-game items.