This Week in Crypto Games: ‘Crypto Valleys’ Blasts Off, Immutable and Polygon Plot $100M Fund

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 debuting This Week in Crypto Games.

Our weekend roundup serves up the biggest news from the past week, along with a few other tidbits you might have missed. We also showcase a few of our original stories from the week.

Biggest news

A tale of two Blast games: Less than a month after the mainnet launch of Ethereum scaling network Blast, we’re starting to see games grab attention—in good and bad ways.

On the upside, DeFi farming game Crypto Valleys is hot right now as players open up randomized NFT seed bags, plant their crops, and pray for some juicy YIELD. That’s actually the name of the token, and it’s the biggest one being traded on Blast as of Saturday.

Less positive news is that Super Sushi Samurai, a Blast-powered game running in messaging app Telegram, was exploited last week and drained of $4.6 million worth of tokens. The good news is that it ultimately proved to be a white hat hack, and the funds were returned to the team, less a reward fee. The game will be relaunched with a new v2 token.

Immutable x Polygon fund: Ethereum scaling giants Immutable and Polygon are teaming up yet again, this time to launch a $100 million gaming investment fund led by King River Capital. The fund will invest in crypto games across platforms, though the first few games revealed so far—including Pixelmon and MetalCore—collectively run on their own networks.

Saga mainnet nears: Layer-1 blockchain network Saga will launch its mainnet in April following months of play-to-airdrop campaigns, the company said at the Game Developers Conference this week. The token, which eligible wallets can currently claim, should go live then too. The firm is also launching its own in-house game publishing division called Saga Origins.

ICYMI

GG spotlight

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