Project Red continues to build on their plans for a mafia-themed, virtual world. Their new whitepaper outlines the team’s plans for growing Project Red into a larger virtual world with dozens of activities — from the FPS Blood Arena to car racing to poker playing to pimp my car contests to owning a business. Project Red hopes to provide an activity for all different kinds of players. You can read up more on their official whitepaper.

But speaking of business ownership, on Friday, April 7th, the shares for the first 15 businesses in Project Red go up for sale!

Business Building Sale

The sale for Business Building shares will be held at https://xoxno.com/ on April 7th. There is a limited supply of 1500 available. Price is $100 in EGLD tokens. The first mint opportunity goes to those with Legendary Gangster status on their Discord and those with a DAO vote. This pre-sale opens at 5:45pm UTC, with a Holders sale opening at 6pm UTC. There is a maximum of 5 purchases per transaction.

Purchasing these provides the owner with a percentage stake in one of the 15 business available. Each NFT equates to a 1% ownership share in the corresponding business. For this sale, 15 different businesses will be up for grabs, including a casino, a car dealership, and a real estate office. Each Business will have 100 shares, for a total of 1500 NFTs available during the mint.

Owners earn a percentage of the earnings from their business, with some of the profits marked for use in the larger game p2e system, and some to the developers. However, there will also be a DAO voting system around business funding, allowing owners to change how their profits are spent. Do you take it all in cash, or do you reinvest into the business?

Business Building shares will be tradeable. Players need to own a Project Red NFT to participate in this sale.

What is Project Red?

Project Red is a open world, 3D social hub built in the Unreal Engine with several sub-games, including the FPS, Blood Arena. Project Red is a mafia-themed game, with plans for player ownership of land and in-game businesses, as well as competition between groups for resources and bragging rights.

The game runs on the MultiversX blockchain (formerly known as Elrond). So players will need an appropriate wallet and the ELGD native token for purchases. Players can pick up Elrond Mafia NFTs at https://xoxno.com/collection/MAFIA-bd0abc. The current alpha also features free to play weekends. But holders of Elrond Mafia NFTs can play at any time and earn rewards in various leaderboards and contests.

The final game will free to play, but owning a Mobster character NFT provides entrance to a special headquarters club, opportunities to bet on different events, access to a battle pass system with rewards, and other various perks and bonuses. Players can already stake their Mobsters for whitelists and airdrops.

Project Red is only available on the PC. Players can create custom game avatars based on the traits of the NFTs they own. They can also earn EGLD tokens by playing. The team plans to continue adding new maps, weapons, and game modes over the coming months. Project Red is just one facet of a larger ecosystem being built around the Elrond Mafia.

To learn more about Elrond Mafia and Project Red, visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord server.

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New releases, new wallets, new mobile apps, new tokens, and even entirely new games! The play to earn space and community continues to grow and expand. And today we have a selection of games you might want to watch over the coming months!

FPS Games

FPS games are a great fit for the web3 space and the competition is rapidly heating up! Undead Blocks just released their daily play and earn feature, ev.io adds the first step towards a crafting system, and we have betas, alphas, and updates from all sort of other games such as Mini-Royale FORA, Metalands, Project Red, Forge: Arena, just to name a few!

And best of all, most of these games are free to play or have free to play options!

Illuvium

The Illuvium dev team now has four games running and accessible, with concurrent development on all of them! Illuvium Beyond is set to open in just a couple of days from now. Meanwhile, Illuvium Zero, Illuvuim Overworld, and Iluvium Arena are all in various alpha and beta tests. It feels like Illuvium is very close to connecting everything together and then suddenly springboarding an entire game ecosystem onto the public! That probably won’t happen in March, but Illuvium is still one to keep an eye on!

Immutable X

Already a big player in web3 gaming, Immutable continues to grow, recently adding ChainMonsters to their portfolio. In addition, they recently announced plans for their Immutable Passport, a seamless wallet and login experience for use by all the developers in the Immutable ecosystem. Finding ways to onboard more traditional gamers into the web3 space is an ongoing effort among many blockchain games and apps. And those who can do the best job at it will certainly have an advantage moving forward. Immutable is in a prime position to be one of those in the lead position!

Gods Unchained

The buzz around Gods Unchained has began to grow again as they move into pre-alpha testing for their mobile app. Mobile gaming is another big facet for gamers, and a great opportunity to increase the playerbase. With an already established system of daily play and earn options, as well as official tournaments every weekend, and a large market of available NFTs, Gods Unchained has a solid foundation to grow from. A playable mobile version could be a huge boost for the game!

Vulcan Forged

Vulcan Forged made a huge move recently. They migrated LAVA, the native token for their ecosystem, onto their Elysium blockchain, and capped the number of tokens in existence.They are already building a diverse ecosystem on Elysium with their own DEX, a marketplace, and a growing selection of games, including Vulcan Verse, a 3D MMO.

Making moves to focus on their token and make their ongoing ecosystem and game economy sustainable is a good decision by the team. Though switching a token can be a painful transition, taking the time to go back and fix an important foundation of the ecosystem is a sign of maturity from the Vulcan Forged crew, and I look forward to seeing what they bring us next!

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Every other weekend (starting with the game open to all this weekend, Feb 10th-12th), the Project Red alpha will be free to play. Anyone can download the game and join in on the playtests for this new FPS with a Mafia theme. Though a larger world is planned, this current alpha is just for the Blood Arena, an FPS contest set within the game world.

Project Red is still in alpha testing. And while they do host contests with prizes for players during the alpha, for now, they won’t be offering rewards to free to play players. However, this is still a great chance to give the game a try, provide feedback, and take a look at one of the new FPS games in the web3 space.

Players can download the game here. The team has teased a new release towards the end of the month, with a new map, new weapon, new training made, and private matches. The Project Red public alpha first opened on January 27th, 2023.

What is Project Red?

Project Red is a open world, 3D social hub built in the Unreal Engine with several sub-games, including the Blood Arena. Project Red is a mafia-themed game, with plans for player ownership of land and in-game businesses, as well as competition between groups for resources and bragging rights.

The game runs on the MultiversX blockchain (formerly known as Elrond). So players will need an appropriate wallet and the ELGD native token for purchases. Players can pick up Elrond Mafia NFTs at https://xoxno.com/collection/MAFIA-bd0abc. The current alpha also features free to play weekends. But holders of Elrond Mafia NFTs can play at any time and earn rewards in various leaderboards and contests.

Project Red is only available on the PC. Players can create custom game avatars based on the traits of the NFTs they own. They can also earn EGLD tokens by playing.

The team plans to continue adding new maps, weapons, and game modes over the coming months. Project Red is just one facet of a larger ecosystem being built around the Elrond Mafia.

What is Elrond Mafia?

Elrond Mafia, is a collection of 5,555 mafia-themed PFPs. The creators of this collection plan on building a game ecosystem around the PFPs. The first 1,000 NFTs of the collection (number 1-1000) are considered DAO NFTs and receive special access. The team has since airdropped other NFTs to their holders, original minters, and involved community members.

The team plans for Project Red to act as the social hub and central location for accessing the various activities associated with the ecosystem. This includes mini-games, base building, farming, and more. They also reward those who stake their NFTs with regular airdrops. Elrond Mafia has big plans for building all sorts of dapps, going cross-chain., and growing into a metaverse.

To learn more about Elrond Mafia and Project Red, visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord server.

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We called 2023 as a year of releases foe web3 games, and so far, we are not disappointed! Here are just a few games to keep watch on in February!

Gala Games

Gala Games was on this list last month, and it looks like they aren’t slowing down any! Already full bore into bringing their new mobile acquisitions on board, Gala Games is also moving forward with replacing TOWN with GALA, and bringing their own blockchain, GYRI, more to the front as additional games are added to that ecosystem.

And both their film and music divisions seem to be increasing the pace of releases as well. Also, Gala Games promised to release an updated roadmap for every app that is part of their ecosystem. So look for those over the coming weeks.

Illuvium

Illuvium now has all three of their games, Arena, Zero, and Overworld, running in alpha tests. They’ve been releasing regular updates and bug fixes to Illuvium Zero, and we may even see a public beta for Arena. For a long time after their initial NFT sale, Illuvium had little to show. But now we’re seeing the result of that funding and Illuvium seems to be aiming to release everything all at once!

The Harvest

The Harvest entered into open beta this week. With the web3 MOBA scene still somewhat underdeveloped, there is room for more games to grow in this niche. And The Harvest has some interesting game mechanics in that the battles are between three teams rather than two, and with players building a deck of power-ups to use throughout the match. Will they be able to attract and hold enough interest to carve out their own spot?

The beta for The Harvest is available on Steam for easy download and patching.

Mega World

Mega World opens on the Binance Chain and brings cross-chain dependencies between the three cities. However, unless you’re a major player in the land game, there still isn’t much reason to play this game. So I think this new city opening will be a telling moment for the future of Mega World. Will they be able to generate and sustain enough new activity to keep an entirely new city going, while not letting the older cities decay further into empty wastelands?

I know that they are hoping for their citizen-based, virtual world gameplay to bring in new players. But that still seems to be far away.

New FPSes

The FPS genre seems to be one of the fastest growing in web3 gaming these days. I guess it’s relatively easy to throw something together in Unreal Engine and then tweak it to give it your own style and flavor.

We have recent releases from FORA and Project Red, as well as other upcoming titles such as MetaLands and Citizen Conflict. On top of that we have already existing FPS games such as Forge Arena, and ev.io, who just won the best FPS award at the Gam3r’s Award event!

And of course there are others I haven’t mentioned. The FPS category for web3 gaming is growing by leaps and bounds and definitely an area to watch for interested gamers!

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Project Red is planned as a social hub for the Elrond Mafia project. Part of that hub is a modern-era style FPS featuring team and 1v1 matches. They open up this first phase to a public alpha and the gameplay videos they have released look pretty sweet.

The team has released a few dev logs discussing their attempts to add more realism to the game while maintaining the fun factor. You can tell that they have put a lot of effort into this. Everything from the POV bounce when moving to the sounds to the character’s breathing to particle effects when shooting background items! They are pretty open about their development, even making their bug tracker and development planner public!

Project Red Alpha

The Project Red public alpha opened on January 27th, 2023. And though this is a public alpha, it’s not an open alpha. Players need to own at least one NFT to play.

The game runs on the Elrond blockchain, so players will need an Elrond wallet and the ELGD native token for purchases. Players can pick up Elrond Mafia NFTs at https://xoxno.com/collection/MAFIA-bd0abc. The cheapest options are going for 21.ELGD, which is about $90 USD. The team does plan to open the game up to more players at later stages, and the game will have free to play options by the time it is officially launched.

Project Red is only available on the PC. Players can create custom game avatars based on the traits of the NFTs they own. Players will be able to earn EGLD tokens by playing. The game is available for download on the Project Red website.

The team plans to continue adding new maps, weapons, and game modes over the coming months. Project Red is just one facet of a larger ecosystem being built around the Elrond Mafia.

What is the Elrond Mafia?

Elrond Mafia, is a collection of 5,555 mafia-themed PFPs. The creators of this collection plan on building a game ecosystem around the PFPs. The first 1,000 NFTs of the collection (number 1-1000) are considered DAO NFTs and receive special access.

The team plans to use Project Red as the social hub and central location for accessing the various activities associated with the ecosystem. This includes mini-games, base building, farming, and more. They also reward those who stake their NFTs with regular airdrops. Elrond Mafia has big plans for building all sorts of dapps, going cross-chain., and generally making a splash in the web3 world.

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

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