Jan 8th, 2017 - Who is inflating metamask gas estimations, Etheremon get castles, and MORE!

Hello crypto game fans! I’m Ciel and I’m bringing you all your crypto gaming news updates!

Don’t forget I’m running a game jam over on my personal steemit! Build a game that incorporates crypto or blockchain in some way and submit it to me before January 20th! You could win some Steem, Smartcash, a CryptoKittie, and more! Don’t worry. 12 days is plenty of time to make something! I’ll work on some tutorials to start giving folks some ideas.

I’ve recently been hired as lead unicorn/project manager for an alternate reality game that is going to take place this spring to summer. Follow slothicorn and join the discord to get involved.

Let’s get started!

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Has anyone tried Krypto War? It offers armies for you to train for purchase on the ethereum blockchain. Like a lot of these ethereum games popping up, it operates through MetaMask for on-chain transactions. Someone with extra eth test it and let us know what you think in the comments! Is it worth playing? Someone cool buy Canada okay?

LIXCoin, a crowdfunding and decentralized assets platform, is having their seed funding round in about 21 days.

If you hang out in crypto games discords, you may have seen the new community that sprung up. If not, come join us and chat about crypto games!

While it started off pretty sketchily, Etheremon seems to be doing its best to legitimately offer its players interesting gameplay. They just released their castle battle mode!

Counterparty fans will be excited to see that SpacePirate Games has posted a substantial update regarding the Age of Rust game development. We’re also still getting regular sneak peek images on twitter.

Niel de La Rouviere made a clever little chrome extension that displays the current gas price on Ethereum. So helpful!

Beyond the Void is opening their store on January 10th!

Wikileaks started a trend by using CryptoKitties as a fundraising platform for their organization. At least one other tech-oriented organization is following their example!

Would you collect CryptoPunks to make a GIF?

Check out some new buildings on BLOCKTOWN.

The cryptomons alpha is live! Test yourself against the CPU and give the developer feedback!

FoldingCoin had their community update this weekend. FoldingCoin’s Merged Folding has been instrumental in distributing game assets across the Counterparty network. You can devote your computing power to helping medical research and be rewarded in crypto.

Nova Blitz has some updates, including some token distrbution details.

MetaMask tweeted about gas price estimates being artificially inflated on Saturday.

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That’s all for today. See you next time! :3