Weekly Crypto Gaming News – Bomb Crypto, Polkacity, Battle Racers,

Welcome to all the Player 1s and Player 2s!

In today’s digest, read about:

• A Bomberman-inspired game with play-to-earn features has been launched.
• Polkacity released a new gameplay demo. It seems like GTA or Saints Row but on blockchain.
• Battle Racers will be available to play on smartphones in the near future, not only in Decentraland.
• The Sandbox showed a sneak peek of the main hub with museums and dancing.
• News micro-bites about projects such as Nestables, Splinterlands, Aavegotchi, Town Star, , and ThunderCore.

Bomb Crypto is Officially Launched and Ready to Play

This is a common tendency in the crypto gaming field: most developers tend to take an already proven idea and transfer it onto the blockchain, which is not bad, actually. First of all, it has a known demand with the audience, secondly, such games are easier to market, even though the creators cannot use copyrighted characters or names.

Bomb Crypto is one such example. It’s a Bomberman-inspired game on the blockchain. Recently, the game successfully reached its official release date. This means that everyone that’s interested can check out the gameplay, as well as its play-to-earn features.

Apparently, it does look like the beloved Bomberman from 8-bit and 16-bit consoles, but with unique characters. Of course, all of them are NFTs, so you’ll need to buy them. However, there is also the option to rescue a hero. The game in its current state still lacks a marketplace, story mode, and battle mode. The main crypto of the game is $BCOIN, which is the BEP-20 token listed on the Binance Smart Chain.

The other interesting features of the game are the ability to buy, decorate, and furnish your hero’s home, as well as the special mode: ‘Treasure Hunt,’ in which you can send your bombers to mining areas in order to earn some $BCOIN.

Flipsider:

• It could be said that many blockchain developers are too focused on copying pre-existing titles. but on the other hand, many people would love to see their favourite games integrated with crypto. Well, we must admit that even the idea of itself was born because Vitalik lost some features in World of Warcraft! Having said this, some of the already popular games and their concepts are less suitable for blockchain.
• Let’s create some unique ideas, because blockchain is yet to show what it’s fully capable of.

Polkacity Show a New Gameplay Demo

The second game for today is also the second project based on a successful idea. This time, they borrowed the concept of open-world sandbox game and gangster-simulator, Grand Theft Auto.

The project’s name is Polkacity. Visually it’s still quite far from the GTA look, feeling more like an iOS/Android game in the Gangstar series from Gameloft.

The developers showed character interactions within the in-game world, vehicle spawning, and…