ChainCatcher news, ARPA Network's fully on-chain game DEAR launches its third round on the horizontally scalable gaming ecosystem B3 based on Base. This expansion marks an important phase in the DEAR journey, continuously breaking through the limitations of gaming through the creative application of blockchain technology.B3 is built on a solid foundation of Base, simplifying the management of complex blockchain infrastructure, allowing developers to focus on enhancing gameplay. This enables DEAR to provide a richer and more immersive experience without encountering the common technical barriers associated with blockchain games.It is reported that DEAR is an on-chain entity based on smart contracts, with a limited number of blocks in which the life forms can exist. The game aims to explore the boundaries of humanity and complex smart contracts, allowing players to interact with the life forms through simple actions such as Feed, Abuse, and Stay, while the forms of the life entities change based on the actions of global players. The mechanisms of DEAR naturally evolve from the blockchain, exploring not only the composability and scalability of smart contracts but also the relationships between people mediated by blockchain.

ChainCatcher message, the dark-style global nurturing full-chain game DEAR, incubated and developed by the ARPA team, has launched on Base at 19:00 on June 13. This round of the game has iterated on gameplay elements such as Stay status and interaction media with living entities, and added puzzle challenges to further enhance the game's playability. It is reported that the project team plans to launch a token reward activity again, and players participating in the puzzle challenges will have the opportunity to earn ARPA token rewards.Previously, DEAR was launched on the Redstone chain from May 15 to May 29, during which over 1,500 players interacted with the on-chain living entity contract more than 18,000 times, and players interacted with each other over 58,000 times, with 247 daily active players (lover/hater) and more than 500 players joining the Discord channel.DEAR is a limited game, and living entities can exist in a limited number of blocks. The game aims to explore the boundaries of human nature and complex smart contracts, allowing players to interact with living entities through simple operations such as Fee, Abuse, Stay, and Transfer, while the form of the living entities will change based on the actions of global players.

ChainCatcher news, the Optimistic Rollup L2 project Redstone recently announced the launch of its mainnet. In May this year, Redstone will release games including Biomes, DEAR, DF Archon, Downstream, GG Quest, Sky Strife, This Cursed Machine, and words3. At the same time, Redstone will also launch a series of events, lasting from May 1 to May 15.In addition to the aforementioned games, Redstone will also gain support from the NFT marketplace Redstone Market, DEX Redswap, as well as support from Safe, Randcast, and Rainbow custom networks, along with support from Privy, Metamask, and Walletconnect.It is reported that DEAR is the FOCG (Full On-Chain Game) experimental project of the ARPA team and is one of the first FOCGs to go live on the Redstone mainnet, scheduled for mid-May. Previously, DEAR was in public beta on the Redstone testnet in March, with over 1,500 users participating. At the same time, the DEAR/ARPA team also participated in the Redstone Genesis Block Inscription.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Blocks, full-chain game studio and infrastructure provider Blade Games has completed a $2.4 million seed round financing, led by PTC Crypto and IOSG Ventures, with participation from Bonfire Union Ventures, Animoca Ventures, Mantle, ForesightX, Formless Capital, Public Works, Puzzle Ventures, K300 Ventures, and others.Games built using Blade Game's self-developed zk game engine can run game logic in zkVM and push state differences as zkSNARK proofs onto the chain, which are then verified on L2. The zk game engine currently processes up to 12-15 frames per second and is about to update its batch proof capabilities. The engine currently supports all game studios developing survival, tower defense, RPG, and roguelike card-building games.Blade Games' self-developed game Dune Factory launched its internal testing on May 1, and announced the internal testing rules and rewards on April 29. The game is scheduled for public testing at the end of May.

ChainCatcher news, Web3 full-chain game engine Zypher Games announced a strategic partnership with Risc Zero to jointly build a new paradigm of verifiable on-chain games. Zypher Games will integrate Risc Zero's universal zkVM into its game engine, expanding Risc Zero's use cases through a game-specific SDK to support more authentic, complete, and effective autonomous worlds.Risc Zero stated that this partnership is an exciting step towards the future of full-chain gaming. The Zypher Games team demonstrated how to build innovative, high-performance ZK-based applications using RISC Zero zkVM, representing that full-chain games are no longer constrained by gas fees and EVM limitations, laying the foundation for a new generation of full-chain games.It is reported that Zypher Games is an AI and ZKP-driven game engine that provides Sovereign Layer 3 rollup, ZK-as-a-service SDK, and AI-as-a-service SDK. It aims to provide the necessary composability, programmability, scalability, and privacy for Web3 games. It enables game developers to create rich interactive worlds, emphasizing the scalability, fairness, and complexity of game strategies.

ChainCatcher news, Manta Network ecological project zkHoldem tweeted "LOADING" accompanied by hourglass and parachute Emoji, possibly hinting at an airdrop. zkHoldem is a full-chain poker game in the Manta Network ecosystem, where users can engage in decentralized poker games on-chain.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the on-chain game developer Blade Games successfully held its first offline playtest event during ETH Denver.During the event, the Blade team showcased the base-building and tower defense game Dune Factory based on zkwasm, while also explaining the technology stack and development principles surrounding zkwasm.The Blade team stated that they will launch a web-based testing event in the first quarter and will disclose more related information in the near future.

ChainCatcher news, Scott Sunarto, the founder of the Web3 game studio Argus, stated on social media that Dark Forest is an independent reboot project and is not related to the full-chain game Dark Forest development team 0xPARC. Argus's Dark Forest will continue to remain open source. 0xPARC team developer gubsheep mentioned that Scott Sunarto contributed approximately 12 weeks to 0xPARC's Dark Forest in 2020.At the same time, the first batch of game keys for the Dark Forest developed by Scott Sunarto will be released in a limited quantity on December 5, with pre-registration now open on the Dark Forest website.According to the crypto data platform RootData, in June this year, the Web3 game infrastructure developer Argus announced the completion of a $10 million seed round financing, led by Haun Ventures, with participation from Alchemy Ventures, Robot Ventures, Dispersion Capital, Anagram, Balaji Srinivasan, Elad Gil, Calvin Liu, and others.