This Week in Crypto Games: Robinhood's $2M Bitcoin and Dogecoin Trivia Game, 'Axie Infinity' MMO Revealed

The crypto and NFT gaming space is busier than ever lately, what with prominent games starting to release, token airdrops piling up, and a seemingly constant array of other things happening at all times. It’s a lot to take in!

Luckily, Decrypt’s GG is all over it. And if you need a quick way to get caught up on the latest moves around crypto video games, we’re happy to present This Week in Crypto Games.

Our weekend roundup serves up the biggest news from the past week, along with a few other tidbits you might have missed. We also showcase a few of our original stories from the week.

Biggest news

New Axie Infinity MMO: Sky Mavis, the creator of seminal play-to-earn game Axie Infinity, announced the franchise’s new massively multiplayer online (MMO) game on Wednesday. Immediately, playtest signups opened, letting players potentially earn crypto and NFTs by referring friends, racking up over 1 million prospective users in the time since.

'Axie Infinity: Atia’s Legacy' MMO Game Coming to Ethereum Network Ronin

The makers of seminal play-to-earn game Axie Infinity just announced the franchise’s new massively multiplayer online—or MMO—game, Axie Infinity: Atia’s Legacy. And playtest signups are already open, letting players potentially earn crypto and NFTs by referring friends. Axie Infinity: Atia’s Legacy sees players lead a team of up to four Axie monsters to farm, fight, and complete quests inside the whimsical world of Lunacia. This world has been destroyed following centuries of war, leaving ancien...

Axie Infinity: Atia’s Legacy is an MMO that sees players lead a team of up to four Axie monsters to farm, fight, and complete quests inside the mythical world of Lunacia. This world has been destroyed following years of war, leaving ancient ruins and mystical secrets for the player to discover.

The game is set to enter its first alpha play test during “summer 2025,” the trailer says, after starting development in May 2024.

Robinhood's trivia game: Trading platform Robinhood launched its Robinhood Trivia Live game on Wednesday, led by former HQ Trivia host Scott Rogowsky, offering up $1 million worth of Bitcoin prizes—and drawing nearly 400,000 players in the process.

The game, which consisted of 12 multiple choice questions about crypto and finance, began with more than 392,600 players. By the time the final round arrived, only 1,210 users were still in play, angling for a share of the Bitcoin stash.

These players were then asked to identify the largest IPO in 2024 by deal size, with a total of 615 answering correctly to each earn a share worth $1,626.01 in Bitcoin, approximately 0.018 BTC.

Robinhood Draws Nearly 400K Players in First $1 Million Bitcoin Trivia Game

Trading platform Robinhood launched its Robinhood Trivia Live game on Wednesday, offering up $1 million worth of Bitcoin prizes—and drawing nearly 400,000 players in the process. The game, which consisted of 12 multiple choice questions about finances and cryptocurrencies, began with more than 392,600 players. By the time the final round arrived, only 1,210 users were still in play, angling for a share of the Bitcoin stash. Lasting about 15 minutes, the game led with one-time HQ Trivia host Scot...

On Thursday, Robinhood held another $1 million Bitcoin trivia game exclusively for subscribers to its premium Gold service—and gave a couple dollars' worth of Dogecoin to all players, as well.

Crypto: The Game is back: Survivor and Squid Game-style virtual competition Crypto: The Game is back for its third season. In previous iterations, players have been assigned to one of 10 tribes, where they’ll compete in a series of daily elimination tasks, with participants being voted out at each stage until there is only one player left. But this time, there will be one key difference.

Eliminated players have one shot to get back into the game through "classic arcade games, digital scavenger hunts, and crypto puzzles"—with one shot at a resurrection. Also, the winner of season three will claim the full prize pool, when previously the developers took a 10% cut of the NFT ticket sales.

ICYMI

• Crypto trading card game Parallel hosted its first-ever Parallel League Championship, crowning an esports champion with a $100K grand prize. Parallel Studios also announced during the event that the game is heading to mobile this month.
• Ethereum survival game Eve Frontier hired an economist from the Central Bank of Iceland to perfect its virtual economy.

'Eve Frontier' Recruits Central Bank Economist to Develop Ethereum Game's Virtual Economy

Eve Online creator CCP Games has appointed a former economist at the Central Bank of Iceland as its new Head of Economy. In this role, Stefán Þórarinsson will be conducting “experiments” where he will tinker with the virtual economy of its upcoming blockchain-based survival game Eve Frontier—in the quest of creating the perfect player-driven financial system. Þórarinsson believes that there aren't any significant differences between working with real-world economies and virtual ones. That said,...

• Solana shooter Nyan Heroes revealed its biggest airdrop campaign yet for its next playtest.
• Basketball mobile game Rumble Kong League announced that it will launch its FAME token on Ethereum sidechain network Ronin on March 11.
• Sol Arena, a mix between classic game snake and in-browser game Agar.io, said it will release its CHILL token at the end of March.
• Popular Avalanche battle royale Off the Grid released a temporary solo queue mode.

• There are now Pokémon cards inspired by the Milady NFT collection
• We got a sneak peak at the Parallel’s upcoming third-person shooter Parallel Sanctuary
• Avalanche survival strategy game Gold Fever is now available to play, with a bounty mission recently added.
• Crypto drag racing game Auto Legends secured strategic investment from Coinbase Ventures as part of a $9 million funding round.
• THNDR Games launched a Bitcoin-infused version of blackjack.

You Can Win Bitcoin By Playing This Blackjack Game

There's a new way to play blackjack—and you can win Bitcoin for playing. THNDR Games, a company that specializes in play-to-earn games built around Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, announced Tuesday that it has added a competitive version of blackjack to its Clinch gaming app. The app is available for iOS via the App Store, as well as via direct download for Android or available to play on the web. Unlike some Bitcoin games that are heavily ad-supported and pay out tiny slivers of BTC while yo...

• The guy who made the flight simulator game fully using AI tools has apparently made $52,000 from it.
• Popular Telegram game Farm Frens gave some teases for its second season.
• Ethereum creature collecting franchise Kuroro Beasts is launching its 2.0 release on March 17, with new missions, a play-to-airdrop campaign, and more.
• An official trading card game for NFT collection Azuki is set to release its alpha starter decks “soon."
• Panzerdogs started its “bootcamp” with $2,500 worth of SUI up for grabs, as well as a number of NFTs.

GG spotlight

Here are a few of our original stories from this past week that we think are well worth a weekend read:

Avalanche Shooter 'Off the Grid' Has a Thriving Black Market Ahead of On-Chain Trading

Blockchain gaming is supposed to solve the problem of players creating "black markets" for digital items in traditional games, as trading tokenized, user-owned weapons and skins are a key part of open crypto economies. But ahead of the launch of its Avalanche-based GUNZ L1 mainnet and the on-chain item trading and token that'll come along with it, Off the Grid—one of crypto's biggest games to date—has found itself in a very familiar "Web2" kind of situation. The battle royale shooter has a bustl...

What Is ‘Bitcoin Miner’? This Free iOS and Android Game Pays Real BTC

Mining real Bitcoin is increasingly out of reach for the average person, with the industry dominated by massive firms running warehouses full of super-powered computers. But there’s a popular iOS and Android game that turns the act into an amusing diversion—and pays you small bits of real Bitcoin just for tapping your phone screen. Bitcoin Miner is a simple game that lets you fake-mine an array of popular cryptocurrencies, including BTC, Ethereum, Dogecoin, and Solana—and rack up real satoshis,...

The Biggest Games Releasing in March 2025

March 2025 is a big month in video games, simply for the fact that Assassin's Creed Shadows is finally releasing after a handful of delays.  The game has been controversial with fans, to say the least, but it's also the most anticipated Assassin's Creed game in years.  This month also brings us wrestling, fragging, and living our best virtual lives. For many gamers, this month is going to be a tough one because we're all busy playing Monster Hunter Wilds, which was released on February 28. If th...

Edited by Andrew Hayward

Editor's note: This story was updated after publication to correct the launch timeline for Sol Arena's token.