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The Sandbox has launched its first Game Jam built specifically for alpha creators, running from July 2 to July 31. Builders compete for a prize pool worth 5,000 USD, split among the top five entries. The contest ties into The Sandbox Studio, the platform's new AI game engine, and gives handpicked creators an early proving ground. Full dates and details follow below.

Onchain Heroes has opened an incentivized playtest for Maze of Gains 2.0, a ground-up rebuild of its popular dungeon crawler. Testers who hold the right pass can jump in now and compete for a prize pool of 250 Arcade Keys. The revamp brings a new battle system, fresh biomes, and persistent upgrades that carry through a full run. Everything you need to get into the maze is below.

Robinhood switched on the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain, its own Ethereum Layer 2 built on Arbitrum technology, during a London keynote called The World is Flat. The launch brought a full onchain stack, from 24/7 tokenized Stock Tokens in more than 120 countries to a self-custody lending product paying an estimated 7 percent APY. It also previewed agentic crypto trading, cut maker-taker fees, and marked the platform's official arrival in Canada. Read on for what shipped and what is still coming.

Chainers has launched its Season Pass V2 for July, bundling upgraded rewards, new busted seeds, and a limited Golden Pass discount. A single Golden Pass unlocks both the Free and Premium tracks, and a 11 percent launch offer runs for the first two days only. The season adds infinity levels past 28 and CFB-powered instant leveling.

Splinterlands has released Visions of Verico, a limited edition land mini-set adding 54 new Common land cards that boost Toil and Kin production across every Bloodline. Only 250,000 packs are available at 2 USD each, with a 5 percent discount when paying in DEC. The release brings four new land abilities, Mystery Cards, a community raffle, and a wave of gameplay updates.

Discord is experimenting with a new Living Room layout for voice channels that seats users' avatars together in a shared virtual room instead of a plain grid. The optional view nudges the gaming world's favorite chat app a step closer to a metaverse-style social space. For the crypto gaming communities that live on Discord, it could reshape how players gather between sessions.

Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders went live globally at midnight local time on June 25, giving fans their first real chance to lock in Rockstar's blockbuster ahead of its November 19 release. The Standard Edition runs 79.99 USD and the Ultimate Edition 99.99 USD, both bundled with a Vintage Vice City Pack bonus. Every major storefront and retailer is now stocking it across PS5 and Xbox Series X and S.

Grand Theft Auto VI is skipping the last console generation entirely, and Sony has started emailing PS4 owners to nudge them toward a PS5 before launch.

Loaded Lions: Mane City is heading to mobile, and pre-registration is now live on both the Apple App Store and Google Play. The Cronos-powered tycoon game has run as a desktop browser title until now, so the move puts its city-building and competitive seasons in players' pockets for the first time. A teaser hints at a new event called Malware Maelstrom on the way.

SolFarmer is a play-to-earn mining game on Solana where players grow an underground rack into a galaxy-spanning validator empire and withdraw real SOL. The cozy crypto title pairs idle progression with deep systems, including 48 miners, seven expedition zones, a signature Forge, guild wars, and a player-run marketplace. Withdrawals start at just 0.1 SOL with no off-chain points. Here are the details.