Splinterlands is a card-battler on the Hive blockchain — and yes, you can genuinely start for free. A free account gets you through the tutorial Campaign and into Frontier, the beginner format where you earn your first cards, all without a wallet or a purchase. The paid layer exists, but it’s a choice you make…
Pirate Nation died twice. The game went offline on September 18, 2025 — nearly a year before its developer, Proof of Play, announced on August 4–5, 2026 that the studio itself was ceasing operations. Keeping those two events separate is the key to understanding what happened to the NFTs, the token, the code and the…
When a blockchain game closes, your NFTs usually stay on-chain — but “still existing” is not the same as “still useful.” What happens to game assets depends on how the game ends: a sunset with a successor, a studio collapse, a marketplace closure or a community takeover all produce different outcomes for the same wallet….
“Axie Infinity” isn’t one game anymore. In 2026 the name covers three distinct experiences — a live competitive card battler, a land game that has already sunset, and the original Classic now moving toward community control. This guide separates them and shows what actually exists today. At a glance The Axie games sit in three…
Immutable is the infrastructure layer behind Gods Unchained, Illuvium and a long tail of Web3 games — and in 2026 it finally became one thing: the old Immutable X was retired and everything now lives on a single zkEVM chain. Here’s what that means at player level. What Immutable is A games-focused Ethereum Layer-2 network…
Gods Unchained is a trading card game in the classic TCG mould — and one of the few blockchain games where the free cards are actually enough to learn and compete. You can be in a ranked match ten minutes after downloading, wallet-free. Here’s the start-to-first-match path. What it is A fantasy TCG where cards…
Ronin is the blockchain built for games — home of Axie Infinity, Pixels, and the infrastructure that ties them together. If you’re entering any Ronin title, this is the shared layer explained once: the wallet, the market, and what changed in 2026. What Ronin is, at player level Ronin is an Ethereum-compatible network developed by…
Axie Infinity: Origins is the current flagship of the Axie universe — a card-battler with a genuinely free start: download, take three non-NFT starter axies, and you’re playing without spending anything. Here’s the path from install to first match. Which Axie is which, today The Axie name covers several things, and two of them are…
Pixels is the easiest verified blockchain game to start in 2026: a farming and life sim that runs entirely in your browser, takes an email sign-up, and doesn’t require a wallet unless you want to own assets. Here’s the practical path from zero to playing. What Pixels is Pixels is a pixel-art farming and social…
Blockchain games die quietly. The website stays up, the token still trades, and nobody announces “the game is dead” — so most directories keep listing projects that stopped years ago. Here’s how to check a game’s real status yourself, and how our registry labels what it finds. Why “is it dead” is harder than it…