Today in Blockchain Games - 22/02/2018

Welcome to the first daily newsfeed of updates on blockchain gaming, including all the biggest news and events from the day that has just passed. It's been a couple of days since my last daily update, but after a lot of new games and updates popping up, it felt worthwhile making an article for you all today!

New Games

This section covers all new game and collectible game announcements and releases of the day.

1) Blockchain Football - Fifa ultimate team on the blockchain!
Blockchain Football website | Blockchain Football Discord

• Unique new game launch, collect current and historic footballers, be one of the founding members and purchase one of the 'original' players to earn dividends on any future pack openings of that player.
• Huge incentivized league system planned, with ETH prizes for league winners.
• Collect and trade players, and build your blockchain ultimate team!

2) Ether States Launches - Dividends meets hot potato game
Ether States Website

• New format, traditional hot potato, but every estate owner receives 'rent' dividends for any asset purchase in the game!
• Received over 2000 transactions worth of activity in the opening couple of hours of launch!
• Expect to see copycats in the future for this original new take on hot potato gameplay.

3) Crypto Memes - Meme hot potato game launches
Crypto Memes Website

• Standard format hot potato game, this time collecting Meme's. Worldwide debut on this news feed!
• This is a brand new game, but the contract is currently untested so be wary!

4) New dAPP analytics site Dappboard launches to rival Dappradar and Dapptrack
DAppBoard website

• Basic UI, curretly ad-free.
• Unique attraction - hope to provide insight to games that have been shut down, potentially allowing use for those assets in the future, a library of crypto games in a way.

Game Updates

This section covers all major game and collectible game updates of the day.

1) CryptoMayor.io launches new cities, announced at blockchain in chicago kickoff!
CryptoMayor Website | Crypto Mayor Medium | Crypto Mayor Twitter

• One of the first dApps to launch new content as part of a blockchain event / meetup
• Site follows a similar format to the norm, however includes 'Special Edition' cities from films, books and fantasy.

2) Cryptociti.es discord competition in preparation for huge launch
Cryptociti.es Website

• First country drop tomorrow
• Discord competition involves commenting, and if no follow up comment occurs in 10 minutes you win .25 ETH.

3) Mining content for Crypto.Youcollect website range goes live
Crypto.Youcollect website | Youcollect Update

• First 'Collection game' coin
• Continued purchases increases the mining capability of a particular collectible.

Other News

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

1) Daily numbers

• Dappradar offer us some interested trends in spending on dAPP games today.
  
• Standouts include CryptoCities.net staying strong with over 117 ETH of transactions today, topping the games list in terms of spend in the last 24 hours. New titles such as Ether States are not currently listed on the platform.

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
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