Today in Blockchain Games - 18/02/2018

Welcome to the first of many daily updates on blockchain gaming, including all the biggest news and events from the day that has just passed.

New Games

This section covers all new game and collectible game announcements and releases of the day.

1) Axie Infinity Discord and pre-sale launches
Axie Infinity Website | Axie Infinity Discord

• Think of Pokemon meets tamagochi, you can only pre-buy 'Axies' right now, has a solid referral system and an invite competition in the discord.
• Game won iExec dAPP competition, results can be found here: i Exec Competition medium post
• So far 432 Axies have been adopted.

2) .YouCollect adds another collection / Hot potato game - this time for Crypto coins
Crypto.youcollect website

• After some early activity the contract for this game seems to have slowed

Game Updates

This section covers all major game and collectible game updates of the day.

1) Crypto Hot potato content updates

• CryptoHero, CryptoHero Discord- 6 new heroes added, all heroes on this site originate from this ancient Chinese novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin
• CryptoMasterpieces, Discord - 10 New masterpieces added.
• World Crypto Cup, Discord - More Players added.
• Ether Basketball, Discord - First NBA players added.
  + Many more! If you want your hot potato content updates added please PM me on discord - Pranked#8261.

Other News

This section covers all other news from today, including existing games seeing huge activity, potential exit scams, and games to avoid.

1) WorldCupEther Exit Scam

• Now Defunct Site
• The dev released players to purchase, all funds of these were however sent to a defunct contract, and no participating players received any returns from their sales, it all went to the developer.
• Swiftly afterwards the new contract was emptied of 47 Eth, and the discord and websites for the game were removed.

2) Ethermeals.co offers all proceeds for the day to those who were caught up in the exit scam

• Ethermeals site
• Over 2 ETH was raised for those whose wallets were hit worst by the exit scam, huge kudos to the community members who assisted in raising these funds. big shout out to nightman, and TOP DOG karupin the cat.

3) Daily numbers

• Dappradar offer us some interested trends in spending on dAPP games today.
  
• Standouts include cryptokitties with a re-surging 24 hour volume of 128 ETH, CryptoCountries once again tops the board with over 1,900 ETH of transactions volume, and cryptociti.es saw a revival today with over 63 ETH of transactions.

Useful resources

The No.1 CryptoGames discord:
https://discord.gg/xbXWENr
My guide on how to start playing crypto games on the blockchain:
https://steemit.com/blockchain/@ethgames/from-hard-currency-to-metamask-starting-ethereum-gaming
If you wish to get your blockchain game news added to this blog, please drop me a PM on discord at Pranked#8261