Are We Seeing The Great Pixelmon Revival? People Buying Their NFTs Again!

Robert Hoogendoorn
4 min readOct 20, 2022

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If you think that negative crypto sentiment will stop dapp development, you’re wrong. And things are getting more interesting in the gaming space, as products find their way into the hands of users. This week we’ve published the following articles:

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Pixelmon finds its way back into the spotlight

Kevin is the only NFT that remains as ugly as it was on reveal day

Remember Pixelmon? The project that made $70 million from NFT sales and then unveiled some of the ugliest game designs to have offer graced the internet? The Pokémon-inspired online role playing game Pixelmon has found renewed support within the gaming community, as trading activity for the game’s monster characters has been pumping. Weekly trading volume has increased 368%, ignited by Kevin’s cult status and on-going development from a new game studio.

New Games on DappRadar

Go through the new dapp game list, and get some quality out of it. Or go through NFT Explorer, and find a new game NFT collection.

  • The Bornless —a free-to-play, competitive multiplayer, first-person survival horror game.
  • Ether Legends — a trading card game with its graphics based on historical and cult figures in the Ethereum ecosystem.
  • Mushro Legends — a card-based fantasy adventure game for desktop and mobile devices.
  • P12 Arcana — Project 12 is a Web3 gaming ecosystem containing various smaller challenges, betting, purchasing assets and more.
  • Mir4 — a free-to-play MMORPG with auto-battle mechanics for pc and mobile devices.
Mir4, a free fantasy MMORPG with lots of automated mechanics. (Source: DappRadar Mir4 page)

Have $10? Jump into these Play-and-Earn Games

Gaming is fun, but when NFTs are involved things can get very expensive quickly. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Mass adoption of blockchain-powered games will not happen through $100,000 NFTs, but instead through affordable options that reward player participation. We’ve listed 10 gaming projects you could give a try by spending $10 or less.

See the complete list

Gaming Dapp Highlights

  • Gameta—reached 500,000 UAW in a week. The casual gaming platform remains a popular choice, even though gameplay is simple.
  • Gods Unchained — remains popular for NFT trading. Those who trade can share in GODS and IMX rewards. And there’s the trinket NFT that’s up for grabs.
  • Trickshot Blitzincreased its user base 77% to 161,000. New challenges, rewards and campaigns bring users to the casual mobile game. Read more here.
  • League of Kingdoms — doubled its user count to 788 UAW. These user are the ones minting assets or claiming rewards.
  • Castaways — launched The Islands NFTs, already having a $5,000 average price at the time of writing.
  • Alien Worlds — average price for NFTs has increased 24% over the past week, while number of sales dropped 25%.
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Game Calendar

Every week we highlight the most interesting gaming projects you need to keep your eyes on.

  1. Earth From Another Sun currently has a testing period. Built on Solana, and it looks pretty great! — Visit website
  2. Big Time will open a new alpha test, only to users who own a SPACE NFT. The testing takes place every Thursday.
  3. World Eternal Online Season 1 has started, it’s a closed alpha so you will need to do some effort in obtaining a key. — Official website
  4. The Fabled will have a demo launching December. Still some time to go.
  5. Superior, the action game from Gala Games, can now be found for wishlisting on Steam. Game will supposedly launch later this year.

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Robert Hoogendoorn

Metaverse citizen, Web3 enthusiast, NFT collector. Learning about blockchain every day, sharing my knowledge and passion. Head of Content at DappRadar