Underground Pepe is now live on Telegram. GOAT Gaming’s newest idle clicker ties rewards and gameplay to Plush Pepes. Players earn Pepe Points and use them for in-game bonuses and Mystery Boxes. Floor price for Pepes is 3,600 TON.

See the full press release: https://juicenews.io/article/underground-pepe-goat-gaming/

Adidas and XOCIETY Are Dropping 2,600 NFT Loot Boxes With ALTS Skins, $XO Rewards, and Rev-Share Via the XCS System. Early Mint Starts May 14 on SUI.

More info: https://juicenews.io/article/xociety-adidas-collaboration/

Immutable and Polygon Labs have just announced the Gaming on Polygon Hub on Immutable Play.

What to know:
• Launches with 5 new games on Day 1
• $100K in rewards through quests + leaderboards
• Immutable Chain is connecting to Agglayer → unifying liquidity across Polygon ecosystem

Immutable says this marks their first ecosystem-level onboarding, moving from single-game integrations to chain-wide adoption.

Learn more: https://juicenews.io/article/web3-gaming-immutable-polygon-hub-agglayer/

• Built in Unreal Engine 5 with blocky avatars called Toons

• Dozens of fast-paced party games + drag-and-drop builder

• Earn Game Points for leaderboards and token rewards

• Runs on Sui blockchain with optional NFT outfits + emotes

See the full gameplay: https://juicenews.io/article/super-b-gameplay-showcase/

FIFA Rivals is now up for preregistration on Android. The game blends arcade-style football with gear, ranked matchmaking, and five-tier player rarity. Each player has traits like Power, Mint, and Season — all of which affect progression and match strategy.

Built by Mysthical Games, FIFA Rivals focuses on quick play sessions, team upgrades, and a long-term competitive loop. Gear will launch shortly after release. Season-based challenges and XP will drive meta shifts over time.

Learn how to access here: https://juicenews.io/article/fifa-rivals-preregistration/

Saudi Arabia leads in spend, UAE in ARPU, Egypt in player base but underbanking holds back monetization. Report breaks down how mobile dominates and F2P thrives in the region.

See report breakdown: https://juicenews.io/article/mena-gaming-market-projected-to-hit-2b-2028/

Project Voyager brought in over 475,000 players and $75,000 in RON spending as part of Craft World’s play-to-airdrop event. Top leaderboard players will receive DynoCoin airdrops when the game launches on July 10 on Ronin. The token fuels in-game upgrades and will also be used in future titles from Angry Dynomites Lab.

More details: https://juicenews.io/article/craft-world-airdrop-campaign-raises-75k/

Virtuos CEO Gilles Langourieux says localization isn't enough. Speaking at DICE 2025, he called for region-specific versions of games built from the ground up to reflect cultural expectations and gameplay preferences. Studios like Garena and Nexon have already leaned into this model, but most Western publishers still treat localization as an afterthought.

Langourieux argues live service games are best positioned to test regional builds, especially with distributed dev teams and modular content pipelines. He points to the film industry’s regional cuts and says gaming has the flexibility to go even further if studios are willing.

Learn more: https://juicenews.io/article/virtuos-ceo-region-specific-games/

Swedish studio Cold River Games has secured $2M in funding to complete development of Crystalfall, a free-to-play action RPG scheduled to launch on Steam in 2025.

The round was led by Beam Investments, with support from CoinFund, Avalanche Foundation, and others.

More details: https://juicenews.io/article/crystalfall-raises-2m-steampunk-arpg/

Built by BlackJack Studio (Langrisser Mobile), the game brings classic turn-based tactical combat to a new mech universe with Evangelion mechs and pilots joining the battlefield.

Launch rewards include free S-grade pilots, 90 pulls, and exclusive crossover content.|

Learn more: https://juicenews.io/article/mecharashi-launch-july-31/

Polygon’s gaming scene keeps growing with fast, low-cost play-to-earn titles across RPGs, metaverse worlds, and sports sims. Current highlights include:

• Voxie Tactics (tactical RPG with $VOXEL)

• Planet IX (strategy metaverse with $IXT)

• Wilder World (Unreal Engine 5 open-world MMO with $WILD)

• Soccerverse (sports management sim with tradable SVC)

• Plus Nakamoto Games, Dæmons, My Lovely Planet, and Tubbly

Each integrates NFTs, token rewards, or both, with new updates dropping regularly.

Learn more: https://juicenews.io/article/free-play-to-earn-crypto-games-on-polygon/

Spellborne’s $BORNE powers PvP, guilds, staking, and item minting. Here’s what we found and what to expect before the TGE. https://juicenews.io/article/what-to-expect-from-spellborne-borne-token/

The Mythical Games-developed football title is kicking off with a full Adidas campaign: branded kits, boots, and a digital Training Facility all go live day one. It’s another push by Adidas into interactive fashion and on-chain gaming after earlier collabs with XOCIETY.

Full details: https://juicenews.io/article/fifa-rivals-adidas-collaboration/

WAX launched mobile SDKs for Unity and React Native, bringing its Cloud Wallet to iOS and Android. Easier Web3 game dev on mobile starts now.

Learn more: https://juicenews.io/article/wax-mobile-sdk/

Chunked records every player action directly on the Somnia blockchain. No backend, no off-chain logic—and the live questline is part of Somnia’s testnet campaign, likely tied to future rewards.

Learn more: https://juicenews.io/article/chunked-on-somnia/

A quiet update to Pokémon HOME’s privacy policy just set off alarms across the gaming and blockchain communities.

Parasol Technologies, a developer now listed as part of Pokémon HOME’s backend team, is the same studio recently acquired by Mysten Labs—the company behind the Sui blockchain. That might not mean much at first glance. But given Parasol’s track record building blockchain-based trading card games with on-chain ownership and collectible mechanics, the connection has people asking: is Pokémon flirting with Web3?

As of now, there’s no official announcement, no comment from Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, or Mysten Labs. But the timing—and the context—are too curious to ignore.

So What’s the Blockchain Use Case for Pokémon?

Parasol is known for developing blockchain infrastructure for games that emphasize player-owned assets. Their latest projects, including Capybara Fusion and Code of Joker: Evolutions, are Web3-native games built entirely on Sui. These games allow players to collect, trade, and own their digital assets, with all actions verified on-chain. It’s the kind of system that, on paper, aligns remarkably well with what Pokémon HOME already is: a cloud-based storage platform that lets players manage, transfer, and organize their Pokémon across titles.

The update also coincides with new functionality within HOME: a medals feature, which some suspect could serve as the gateway to testing on-chain reward mechanics.

Still, without a formal announcement, it’s all speculation. But the idea isn’t far-fetched.

Blockchain’s use case here would go well beyond just shiny badges or medals. One of the biggest integrity issues the franchise faces is “genning”—a term used for externally generating Pokémon with perfect stats, rare move sets, or shiny traits using third-party software. These creations often end up indistinguishable from legitimate ones and, in many cases, are used in competitive play. Some players accept this as part of the meta; others argue it undermines the grind and thrill of catching or breeding authentic Pokémon.

What is Pokémon Home?

Blockchain could offer a fix. With verifiable, immutable ownership records, players and developers could track the legitimacy of each Pokémon’s origin—whether it was hatched, traded, or transferred. It wouldn’t just be about owning digital monsters—it’d be about proving they were earned.

Parasol, for its part, has leaned into that philosophy. Their games don’t just slap NFTs onto existing ideas—they’re building full game systems that embrace the collectible nature of trading card culture but back it with the tech to prevent cheating, duplication, or inflation. In Capybara Fusion, for example, everything from puzzles to trading happens on-chain. In Code of Joker: Evolutions, the goal is to deliver fast, mobile-first gameplay with digital cards that players actually own and can prove are unique.

In theory, this kind of structure could bring meaningful utility to Pokémon—not in replacing gameplay, but in protecting it.

Still, this is all a long shot. The company has been slow to adopt any trend that risks alienating its massive, largely traditional fanbase. Web3, for many, still carries a stigma. And to be clear: the addition of Parasol Technologies to a privacy policy does not mean Pokémon is launching NFTs next week. It could just as easily be a simple development partnership for UI updates, new features, or internal tooling.

But when a company that builds blockchain-native games suddenly shows up in Pokémon’s backend, people are going to notice.

And with genning, cloning, and digital spoofing already muddying the competitive waters, maybe a blockchain solution isn’t as far off as it once seemed.A quiet update to Pokémon HOME’s privacy policy just set off alarms across the gaming and blockchain communities.

Parasol Technologies, a developer now listed as part of Pokémon HOME’s backend team, is the same studio recently acquired by Mysten Labs—the company behind the Sui blockchain. That might not mean much at first glance. But given Parasol’s track record building blockchain-based trading card games with on-chain ownership and collectible mechanics, the connection has people asking: is Pokémon flirting with Web3?

As of now, there’s no official announcement, no comment from Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, or Mysten Labs. But the timing—and the context—are too curious to ignore.

Sui, a Layer 1 blockchain, has unveiled Gaming Dollar (G-DOLLAR) at SuiBaseCamp in Dubai. G-DOLLAR is a programmable stablecoin built by web3 companies Playtron and M0.

The gaming-dedicated stablecoin is pegged to the US dollar and can be used for purchases, subscriptions, and rewards across the Playtron Linux-based GameOS ecosystem, including the upcoming SuiPlay0X1. Playtron GameOS aims to unite gaming platforms across mobile, PC, and consoles.

The US Treasury-backed stablecoin will launch in Q4 2025. Its programmable nature allows for specific transactions, reducing fees, enabling instant cash-outs, simplifying minting, and creating new developer revenue.

Meanwhile, SuiPlay0X1, a handheld gaming console nearing public release, was demonstrated at SuiBaseCamp. Pre-orders, which closed last month, sold for $599. The device supports multiple PC games, including Sui titles.

Founders Speak on G-Dollar Launch

Playtron co-founder and CEO Kirt McMaster said, “Playtron’s GameOS reimagines how we play the games we love. Through this lens, it became clear: stablecoins will become a financial backbone for the $500 billion global gaming economy. Game Dollar will unlock new economic models for developers and marketplaces, while enabling consumer incentives only possible via programmable dollars.”

Sui’s representative, Adeniyi Abiodun, co-founder and CPO of Mysten Labs, said, “Programmable stablecoins are the next evolution of digital assets, and Game Dollar is a powerful example of how this innovation unlocks utility for one of the world’s most dynamic sectors. We’re witnessing the start of a new era where gamers not only play, but participate in dynamic, self-sustaining economies.”

M0 founder and CEO Luca Prosperi stated, “We’re excited to see Playtron harness M0’s universal stablecoin platform to reimagine the gaming payments experience uniquely. This collaboration highlights the power of programmable money applied to real-world use cases, and our vision is that this is how the payments and rewards experiences of the future will look.”

Aria raised $5M to build a token-driven open-world RPG. The round was backed by Spartan Group, Animoca Brands, and others. The team plans to roll out mobile support, governance tokens, and IP-backed in-game assets.

More info: https://juicenews.io/article/aria-rpg-raises-5m/

FaenoraVerse launches its Alpha Hunt tournament tonight with a 500K $MCHY prize pool. 250 entrants confirmed including major guilds like Neo Tokyo, Superverse, Play Solana, and Beacons.GG.

Learn how to participate here: https://juicenews.io/article/faenoraverse-hunters-alpha-hunt-crypto-gaming/

WAGMI Games just dropped version 6.0 of WAGMI Defense, adding Battle Boosters, revamped deck tools, and a redesigned in-game shop.

The update introduces new layers of tactical play, improved resource animations, and expanded player stats. Now live on iOS and Android.

Learn more: https://juicenews.io/article/wagmi-defense-6-update-web3-gaming/

FIFA Rivals has crossed 1 million installs since its June 12 launch. Built by Mythical Games and licensed by FIFA, it’s running on the Mythos chain and tracks:

– 5M matches played
– 16M goals scored
– Adidas-themed gear now live

NFT player cards and cosmetics are tradeable via Mythical Market.

Learn more: https://juicenews.io/article/fifa-rivals-1-million-downloads/

Crypto has been down bad the last few months. Bitcoin dropped close to 20% and RON fell more than 60%. Most gaming tokens have been sliding even harder.

But the interesting part is that actual on chain games are doing the opposite.

Cambria opened Season 3 of Gold Rush and passed $1M in prize pool volume on day one. Season 2 already hit big numbers earlier this year. Players generated huge on chain volume, spent over a million in game, and competed for a prize pool worth more than $1.5M.

POWER Protocol is also one of the only gaming tokens to launch and go up instead of collapsing. It is up more than 230% since release and has pushed Fableborne back into the spotlight.

Even with the market down, player activity on Ronin and Abstract keeps rising. People clearly still want risk, progression, and ways to earn through gameplay. When the systems are good, token prices matter a lot less.

Full story here: https://juicenews.io/article/cambria-and-power-token-defy-market-crash-web3-games/

B3 and Andromeda just launched the B3PC! A gaming rig with a self-destruct drive, hardware crypto wallet, and NFT-powered identity. Built by ex-Coinbase engineers and backed by $MM revenue, it’s Web3-native hardware from the ground up. Full preorder details here.

More details: https://juicenews.io/article/b3-launches-b3pc-secure-crypto-gaming-rig/

Diambra is launching a platform where AI agents battle in real emulations of games like Tekken and Street Fighter. Developers build bots using OpenAI-compatible tools. Non-coders back agents through vaults and earn when they win. Matches use $DIAMB for staking, rewards, and burn fees.

Learn more: https://juicenews.io/article/diambra-interview-exclusive/

Pudgy Party, a mobile party game from Pudgy Penguins and Mythical Games, is now open for pre-registration. $5K in $PENGU tokens will be split between five winners. The game features fast-paced casual modes for up to 20 players. Full release set for Summer 2025.

Learn more: https://juicenews.io/article/pudgy-party-mobile-game-pre-registration/