# Today in Blockchain Games - 18/02/2018

Welcome to the first of many daily updates on blockchain gaming, including all the biggest news and events from the day that has just passed.

### New Games
*This section covers all new game and collectible game announcements and releases of the day.*

**1) Axie Infinity Discord and pre-sale launches**
**[Axie Infinity Website](https://axieinfinity.com/adopt-axies?r=04em5OhKbIa9kMFYxgKKWMyKxFk) | [Axie Infinity Discord](https://discord.gg/vuPKGTm)**
![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWCyRd439rgo5NxKK1TY6YzV1PUgSY5bwXoZPjdtGgCS4/image.png)
- Think of Pokemon meets tamagochi, you can only pre-buy 'Axies' right now, has a solid referral system and an invite competition in the discord.
- Game won iExec dAPP competition, results can be found here: [i Exec Competition medium post](https://medium.com/iex-ec/dapp-challenge-15-new-applications-using-the-iexec-decentralized-cloud-a25c33208667)
- So far 432 Axies have been adopted.

**2) .YouCollect adds another collection / Hot potato game - this time for Crypto coins**
**[Crypto.youcollect website](http://crypto.youcollect.co/#/marketplace)**
- After some early activity the contract for this game seems to have slowed

### Game Updates
*This section covers all major game and collectible game updates of the day.*

**1) Crypto Hot potato content updates**
![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTpRFZGD51rXKvteKsXcfDgVqb2ZKkhfYz4o3mG9pvUKU/image.png)
- [CryptoHero](http://www.cryptohero.pro/), [CryptoHero Discord](https://discord.gg/QNEMF4j)- 6 new heroes added, all heroes on this site originate from this ancient Chinese novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin
- [CryptoMasterpieces](https://www.cryptomasterpieces.com/), [Discord](https://discord.gg/jZH4Hqb) - 10 New masterpieces added.
- [World Crypto Cup](https://worldcryptocup.com/), [Discord](https://discord.gg/t6MhzUu) - More Players added.
- [Ether Basketball](http://etherbasketball.co/), [Discord](https://discord.gg/Q25r8aw) - First NBA players added.
**+ Many more! If you want your hot potato content updates added please PM me on discord - Pranked#8261.**

### Other News
*This section covers all other news from today, including existing games seeing huge activity, potential exit scams, and games to avoid.*

**1) WorldCupEther Exit Scam**
- [Now Defunct Site](http://worldcupether.com/ )
- The dev released players to purchase, all funds of these were however sent to a defunct contract, and no participating players received any returns from their sales, it all went to the developer.
- Swiftly afterwards the new contract was emptied of 47 Eth, and the discord and websites for the game were removed.

**2) Ethermeals.co offers all proceeds for the day to those who were caught up in the exit scam**
- [Ethermeals site](http://ethermeals.co/)
- Over 2 ETH was raised for those whose wallets were hit worst by the exit scam, huge kudos to the community members who assisted in raising these funds. big shout out to **nightman**, and TOP DOG **karupin the cat**.

**3) Daily numbers**
- [Dappradar](https://dappradar.com/) offer us some interested trends in spending on dAPP games today.
![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXhJA6UrLUQQ3bSMg3isttzHTX2bJLXsYCeEEL6GAyEQo/image.png)
- Standouts include [cryptokitties](https://www.cryptokitties.co) with a re-surging 24 hour volume of 128 ETH, [CryptoCountries](https://cryptocountries.io) once again tops the board with over 1,900 ETH of transactions volume, and [cryptociti.es](https://cryptociti.es/?utm_source=dappradar) saw a revival today with over 63 ETH of transactions.

### Useful resources
The No.1 CryptoGames discord:
https://discord.gg/xbXWENr
My guide on how to start playing crypto games on the blockchain:
https://steemit.com/blockchain/@ethgames/from-hard-currency-to-metamask-starting-ethereum-gaming
If you wish to get your blockchain game news added to this blog, please drop me a PM on discord at Pranked#8261