One week ahead of open beta launch, Nexus Interactive has announced its flagship TCG Everdawn Champions will be available on Epic Games Store.

Previously known as Aradena Battleground, the game can now be wishlisted for early access via Epic, with open beta launch expected 25th September 2024.

Part of a wider medieval strategy gaming universe, Everdawn Champions is the first title to be released by the UK-based outfit. Nexus Play, its game development studio, is also working on mobile auto-battler Snap Royale, which is set to launch in 2025, and mobile base builder Kingdoms of Conquest, tentatively due in 2026. 

Additionally, Nexus is looking to release web3 games and IP developed by thirdparty partner studios. It’s also working on AI-driven UGC tools for users looking to create their own gameplay content, in return for revenue shares.

Finally, the company is launching its native ecosystem token NXI later in 2024, which will underpin all of its games and projects.

Backed by Animoca Brands, Jump Crypto, Maven Capital, GameFi Ventures, and others, Nexus recently announced the closure of a $2 million seed funding round.

Find out more at Nexus’ website.

After initially starting development in 2018, Fracture Labs is celebrating a big milestone for its upcoming sandbox RPG, DECIMATED, with the game now officially listed on the Epic Games Store.

The blockchain-based title offers thrilling PvP and PvE encounters as you fight to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland amidst mutant creatures and environmental hazards. Players will be challenged to fend off bio-entities while scavenging essential supplies across an epic sized world map, with the choice of going it alone or teaming up with other players.

DECIMATED is built using the Unreal engine and is designed to deliver the most immersive playing experience the state of the art graphics engine can provide. The scope and ambition of the project won its developers an Epic Mega Grant, backed by 46 investors, in December 2021, and has seen the project build a community of over 60,000 followers on Twitter/X and 23,000 members on Discord.

The game’s economic gameplay will also take a revolutionary turn by integrating the DIO token, via the Solana blockchain, and will feature interoperability between all of Fracture Labs’ future titles. This innovation creates a real-time digital economy within DECIMATED, where every in-game decision made by the player offers real-world economic consequences on the Solana blockchain.

In a recent Twitter/X announcement, Fracture Labs also confirmed DECMIATED’s official sponsorship of the premier token event, Token2049 Dubai, underscoring its commitment to the innovation of blockchain and the burgeoning digital economy.

For more updates on DECIMATED development, you can follow the official website and Discord to learn
more.

There are currently 127 blockchain games on PC games distribution platform Epic Games; almost double the number of games listed at the end of 2023.

More significant than the number itself, is the actual games which are listed. Of those, the most prominent titles include MetalCore, Parallel, Blocklords, Star Atlas, Apeiron, Nyan Heroes, and Shrapnel.

It’s worth noting, however, that many of these games aren’t formally live yet, rather they’re undergoing time-limited or key-gated playtests.

Among the other games listed as live we find Aurory’s RPG Seekers of Tokane, Rough House Games’ PVP RPG Champions Ascension, open world racer Wilder World, auto-chess game Illuvium, third-person shooter Mars Battle, monster-tamer RPG Zeeverse, Blowfish’s mech battler Phantom Galaxies, Ghost Ivy’s FPS Haven’s Compass, Cometh’s TCG Cosmik Battle, Immutable’s TCG Gods Unchained, Earn Alliance’s zombie survival game Last Remains, and Directive Games’ top-down shooter The Machines Arena.

In terms of the most downloaded web3 games on Epic Games, remaining in the 100,000 region, 9 Lives Interactive’s alpha demo of team-shooter Nyan Heroes and the early access version of MetaKing’s medieval strategy game Blocklords have publicly announced this level of downloads.

A quick overlook of the data reveals that

• 58% of the 127 games listed is being live in some form, while
• 28% is “coming soon,” and
• 13% will be available at some point in 2024.
• Valannia Arena is taking the long road, listing its availability in Q2 2025.

Among the most anticipated titles labelled “Coming soon” or later “in 2024” we find Mon Studios’ retro MMO Spellborne, Param Labs’ shooter Kiraverse, Acid Rainbow’s FPS Badmad Robots, and Dynasty Studios’ survival shooter Providence, while Everreach’s shooter R3V3NG3 and SpacePirate’s sci-fi action adventure game Age of Rust are expected to launch towards the end of the year.