Ronin-based god battler Aperion has announced its Season 3 open beta will launch on 22nd August.

Available for PC and Mac, via Epic Game Store and Mavis Hub, the release will bring together the complete flow of the game’s real-time battle features as players move through the tutorial to completing difficulty-graded PVE dungeons and unlocking PVP arenas.

As well as enabling players to hunt and mint apostle NFT support characters, the Season 3 release will also see the release of four gameplay currencies, which underpin the game’s power progression for the apostles.

• Unpurified gold is a reward for winning battles that is the main currency used in dungeon shops.
• Unpurified souls are gained by selling unwanted apostles in dungeons and converted to soul gems.
• Soul gems are spent to enhance your apostles’ skills and buy into new dungeon runs.
• Souls are used to reset your apostles’ age and acquired by selling unwanted apostles in your hub.

Players will be able to bring up to four apostles into a dungeon, with an additional two slots for apostles rescued in dungeons.

“Our vision is to make blockchain gaming accessible and exciting for all players as we work toward our upcoming mobile release, taking a significant step toward reaching gamers worldwide,” commented Frank Cheng who’s CEO of Apeiron developer Foonie Magus.

“Over the next six months, we will introduce more PvP and PvE content, including the new Avatar class, The Fury, and the new Apostle class, The Summoner, both offering fun gameplay to explore. Together, these advancements will drive our mission to become a mainstream franchise.”

Find out more at the Apeiron website.

Beta Season 1 for My Neighbor Alice. And with it come official Adventure Contests, which offer ALICE tokens as prizes, one of which just started today! The beta is free to play, so if farming and crafting in a multiplayer, social environment is your style of game, you might want to check out My Neighbor Alice!

My Neighbor Alice started their beta season 1 back in mid-April, but there is still time to join this free to play farming and crafting game, and potentially earn some tokens by participating in weekly contests!

This new playtest includes an emotes system for more varied social interactions, and an in-game trading system. And while the ability to have animated emotes is an important part of a virtual social scene, the in-game market is a larger step forward. Especially with a farming and crafting focused game! Additionally, we have new crafting stations both in town and on player plots, new levels and upgrades for tools, and new quests to complete.

The beta is free to play. Players can either own or purchase an NFT land, or claim a trial land plot to access the beta. Head over to the official webpage to download the launcher (PC only for the moment) and get started!

And to encourage players, they have started running weekly contests. This week, the object is to collect as many fish (and as much variety) as you can. You’ll need to post a screenshot of your inventory on Twitter and tag the official My Neighbor Alice account to participate. Winner receives 150 ALICE tokens (current price at $1.23 per token). You can read the official rules and requirements here.

What is My Neighbor Alice?

My Neighbor Alice is a multiplayer blockchain-based building and farming game. Players can own and buy virtual islands and meet friends while building and collecting items. The game is similar in many ways to Stardew Valley. Players grow crops, fish, craft, decorate, and trade. But My Neighbor Alice has quite a bit of complexity to it. For example, each body of water has a different selection of fish in it — with different fish preferring different types of bait!

The game offers plenty of plot customization, with a large selection of decorative items as well as crafting stations and crop growing.

My Neighbor Alice includes a companion mobile app called Alice’s Wardrobe. Players can decorate their avatar in this app and then save their appearance to the blockchain for use in the main game. They also have their own out of game marketplace, with item transactions using the game’s ALICE token.

My Neighbor Alice is currently in beta testing.

To learn more about My Neighbor Alice, visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord.

The first closed beta for Wanderers opens on May 3rd. This beta playtest will only be open to accounts who hold RAM cards. Holders will have a chance to dive into this action-packed, sci-fi dungeon adventure to try and defeat the menacing, Dark Entity! Perhaps even with rewards for doing so!

Known as First Jump, this playtest is the first closed beta for Wanderers and open only to RAM Bundle holders.

The playtest runs from Friday, May 3rd 12pm ET to Tuesday May 7th 12pm ET. Players are tasked with finding and defeating the Dark Entity. Supposedly there will be some rewards, though what they are and how they are handed out has not been revealed. Though they do encourage you to try and defeat the Dark Entity as quickly as possible. So it sounds like there will be some sort of leaderboard involved.

To participate in this closed beta, you will need to burn a RAM Beta Bundle NFT. If you don’t have one already, they are available on Open Sea for a little under $100. Once you have your Bundle, head over to https://codex.wanderers.ai/firstjump to redeem it and receive your access code. Enter the access code at Epic Games and you are ready to download the game!

RAM bundles provide more than just access codes, though. They also contain packs of RAM cards. RAM cards are memory chips, allowing players to use the skills of past heroes. For now RAMs are account bound. But in the future, players will be able to mint and trade their RAM cards.

RAM Bundles also contain referral codes to invite your friends. Though for the First Jump playtest, this feature is locked. Only RAM holders may play.

RAM chips provide a deck building / customization option for players, allowing them to constantly tweak their character setup to find their preferred builds for dungeon runs.

What is Wanderers?

Wanderers is a free to play, top-down, action-based, roguelite, sci-fi shooter. Players head through wormholes to hostile planets, defeat enemies, find loot, and then do it again. Aside from the randomness of the dungeon generation, Wanderers also gives players plenty of options to customize their play sessions.

Players do this by building a deck of RAM cards, each representing a new skill or power-up. During a run, players may find RAM terminals where they can access a random selection of RAMs, including those from their deck and others based on the dungeon they’re running. Adding multiple copies of the same RAM to your deck will increase your odds of being able to access that particular RAM at the terminals.

Wanderers has received investment backing from Animoca Brands.

To learn more about Wanderers, visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord server.