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Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick addressed the pricing question around Grand Theft Auto 6 at the iicon conference in late April without actually committing to a number. While a leaked CD key listing of 89.99 pounds (roughly 100 US dollars) has fueled community panic, the executive verbally walked back from the figure without naming an alternative. The next concrete answer is unlikely to arrive before May 21, when Take-Two reports its quarterly earnings and Rockstar may finally drop the long-awaited third trailer alongside it.

Extraction shooter Shrapnel has launched Chinese Early Access on GalaChain, becoming the first Western Web3 title to enter China through the country's Trusted Copyright Chain. The integration unlocks compliant RMB trading of in-game assets for nearly 700 million Chinese gamers and includes an exclusive weapon skin collection minted on GalaChain. The launch follows Shrapnel's migration from Avalanche to GalaChain in 2025 and a $19.5 million funding round led by Gala Games.

Visa has officially added Base, Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2, to its global stablecoin settlement pilot. The expansion brings the program to nine supported blockchains and pushes the annualized stablecoin settlement run rate to $7 billion, up 50 percent in a single quarter. Base joins Polygon, Canton, Arc, and Tempo as the five newest additions to the pilot, with the move positioned as a structural step toward making onchain payments a daily reality for billions of people.

Gala Games has launched the exclusive alpha release of Mirandus: Eternal Night, opening the gates to its persistent 3D hex-based exploration and auto-battler RPG. Players step into the Echo Realm as Echoes to test the core gameplay loop of explore, risk, gather, and return alive, with Energy and HP management as the core survival mechanics. The Store, a massive new Boss Event, and Mirandus NFT support are all coming soon, with this phase positioned as the head start to stockpile resources before everything scales.

Circle has minted $500 million in USDC on Solana, pushing fresh weekly issuance on the network to $3.25 billion. The mint adds to a cumulative 2026 total of roughly $38 billion in new USDC on Solana, with the network now approaching a 10 percent share of total USDC supply for the first time. The pace highlights Solana's growing role as a stablecoin venue for institutional and consumer flows, with implications across DeFi, payments, and the network's expanding gaming and consumer app ecosystem.

MegaETH has gone live with Terminal, its new points platform built around a city-style live app map. Season 1 runs from April 28 to June 23 across 8 weeks, with App Wave 2 opening on April 30 alongside the long-awaited MEGA token generation event. Players can pick up to 3 apps weekly, only those benefit from booster multipliers, and Fluffle NFT holders stack additional ecosystem-aligned multipliers. The Terminal launch is positioned as the first wave players need to clear by April 30 ahead of the TGE.

The SUP Foundation has flipped the switch on Prime Rush servers across Latin America. The mobile battle royale from SuperGaming and LOUD parent company Spacecaps is now free to play on iOS and Android across the region, following a successful rollout in Brazil. The launch extends the reach of the Brazilian-inspired shooter into one of the world's fastest-growing mobile markets and feeds directly into the SUP Foundation's plan to bring more than 200 million players onchain through its GameChain network.

Gala Games has confirmed that Legends and Dragons is now available on iOS and Android, framing the GalaChain title as a fast-paced RPG centered on progression, loot, and constant upgrades. The match-3 RPG, with roots in Dragon Strike and Legends Reborn, brings empire building, hero summoning, dragon strikes, alliances, and PvP arena battles to mobile. The launch follows an earlier April 14 relaunch and slots into Gala's wider mobile-first portfolio strategy.

Kamigotchi is moving its ONYX token off the Yominet appchain and onto Ethereum mainnet on April 22. The onchain idle MMORPG from indie studio Asphodel is airdropping the new token to current holders, migrating the ETH backing the existing pool, and preserving loan and loop balances as a combined Credit balance. The migration arrives one day after Baseline, the DEX whose bToken model underpins ONYX, launches its own ecosystem token $B on Ethereum.

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