Bitcoin-enabled (BTC) games startup Satoshis Games announced the development of a Fortnite-like game with built-in Lightning Network microtransactions dubbed Lightnite on Oct. 19. Shoot to earn Bitcoin Per the announcement, all in-game interactions between players trigger a monetary reward or penalty for the user. Satoshis Games provides some examples: “In simple words, players earn Bitcoin by shooting other players and lose Bitcoin when they get shot.” Furthermore, some in-game items have a Bitcoin value and can be picked up from dead players and the game’s store allows players to purchase items with fiat money or BTC microtransactions. The player’s balances …

The gaming world burst into an outrage as a result of Blizzard's move to expel a leading professional gamer from Hong Kong, Chung Ng Wai (aka Blitzchung), from its international Hearthstone esports tournament. Hearthstone is an online game featuring collectible cards that give players certain characters and abilities for an edge against their opponents. It was not long until Gods Unchained, a rival blockchain-based game, claimed it will give back Blitzchung all his rescinded winnings and welcome him into their tournaments. Blitzchung was removed from the Hearthstone Grandmaster tournament he had just won as soon as he said: "Liberate Honk …

Crypto exchange Poloniex has announced that it is delisting six digital currencies: Clams (CLAM), Pascal (PASC), Steem (STEEM), Navcoin (NAV), GameCredits (GAME) and LBRY Credits (LBC). According to a Reddit post published in the CLAMClient subreddit on Oct. 9, Poloniex announced the upcoming delisting in an email sent to users who hold them on the exchange. The delisting procedure Per the announcement, trading of PASC, STEEM, NAV, GAME, LBC and CLAM will be disabled on Oct. 15. LBC withdrawals will be permanently disabled on Oct. 28. Lastly, PASC, STEEM, NAV, GAME and CLAM withdrawals will be permanently disabled on Nov. …

The Sacramento Kings NBA basketball team is launching a blockchain-powered rewards program within its gaming app. Partnership with Blockparty The Sacramento Kings partnered with New Jersey-based blockchain ticketing platform Blockparty to add blockchain-based rewards to its prediction game Call the Shot, the team officially announced on Oct. 7. According to the announcement, the new program will be available in the upcoming 2019–2020 season. During the season, Blockparty will be tracking Kings fans’ activity while they are betting on Call the Shot — and players will be able to accumulate points in a virtual wallet within the Sacramento Kings + Golden …

Blockchain-based PC games distribution platform Ultra.io has unveiled its first three block producers (BPs): Bitfinex, EOS Rio and EOS New York. All three future network maintainers are EOS BPs, while Bitfinex is also a major and well-known cryptocurrency exchange. Making the gaming industry fairer Per the announcement on Oct. 2, the three entities will help Ultra optimize its blockchain and will enable the company to launch its public testnet, followed by the mainnet. The startup claims that its platform enables a higher degree of fairness in the gaming industry by employing “programmable and instant money, tradability of games and in-game …

Blockchain and artificial intelligence firm Animoca Brands Corporation Limited has entered into a partnership with sports management company Dorna Sports, S.L. to develop a blockchain-based MotoGP manager game. Per a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Sept. 26, Animoca Brands completed a strategic capital raise of A$1 million ($677,600) from a group of investors, including Moses Tang, the founder of AP Capital and founding chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific. The company is planning to allocate part of the funds to advancing the manager game. Make it to the 2020 MotoGP racing season The release says that Animoca Brands determined …

Naspers, the largest shareholder of Chinese Internet giant Tencent, has participated in a $15 million investment in blockchain game developer Immutable. Key investors Immutable, a Sydney-based blockchain gaming startup, completed a new funding round led by Naspers and Galaxy Digital EOS VC Fund, the company announced in a blog post on Sept. 23. As reported by the Australian Financial Review (AFR), other investors also included Sydney-based VC firm Reinventure and American private investment firm Apex Capital. Scaling from 13,000 to 1 million gamers projected According to the report, Immutable's flagship game Gods Unchained has made more than $4.5 million in …

The online real-time economic strategy game, Prospectors, will be launching on the Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX). Prospectors blockchain game lands on WAX In a Sept. 17 blog post, WAX announced that one of the largest dApps in the world, The Prospectors, is launching on the WAX blockchain, on which users buy physical and virtual items using WAX tokens. This blockchain-based decentralized strategy game set during the 19th-century gold rush launched on EOS in late June 2019. Notably, the game’s designers plan for it to become fully autonomous over time. Arielle Brechisci, Content Manager at WAX said that the game will …

Open source blockchain platform Waves and blockchain game distribution platform The Abyss will jointly launch a blockchain-based marketplace of digital goods and in-game items. In a blog post published on Sept. 5, The Abyss revealed its collaboration with the Waves Platform, aimed at the development of a blockchain-powered marketplace of tradable goods and in-game items. The marketplace will enable users to purchase items with Abyss Tokens and sell them to other users. Waves blockchain-integrated tokens The integration of Abyss Tokens with Waves blockchain will allow game developers to incorporate Abyss Token operations directly into their Waves-based games. Commenting on the …

A blockchain company that claims to offer a platform for the next generation of the digital gaming economy has been listed on Binance. On Aug. 20, the major exchange announced plans to open trading for Cocos, the native token offered by Cocos-BCX. Three trading pairs — with Bitcoin, Tether and Binance Coin — are being offered at launch. Cocos-BCX says its motivation is to provide an easy-to-use blockchain infrastructure for gaming developers, enabling them to build games in a graphical way without having to solve technical issues that often form high barriers to entry. This is coupled with a desire …

Decentralized crypto collectible game Blockchain Cuties Universe, which is already available on three platforms — Ethereum, EOS and Tron — has added a fourth, Neo. The company pointed out that this step makes them “the only game of its kind that supports four strong, competitive platforms and the first game developer working on Neo.” Fourth platform According to the company, Neo — one of the fastest blockchains out of all major protocols — will help to increase scalability within the game. The team emphasizes that, besides the Neo audience and cryptocurrencies (NEO and GAS), it is interested in its delegated …

This week was an important one for crypto adoption in the Spanish-speaking world, with reports of a government ministry working on a token in an Argentinian province and a Venezuelan state airline accepting the country’s controversial Petro coin. Here’s the past week of crypto and blockchain news in review, as originally reported by Cointelegraph en Español. Spain’s first “legal” ICO speaks on regulation On Aug. 22, Cointelegraph en Español spoke with Daniel Pons Ayala, founder and chief information officer of Spanish startup Cresio. The company claims to be the first legal initial coin offering (ICO) operating in Spain. Ayala shared …