This Week In Gaming | MapleStory N Teams Up With Pudgy Penguins, RavenQuest Launches Season 2 Guild Tournament, Heroes of Mavia Unveils Alliance Wars Mode, and Freya Protocol Accelerates $FREYA Burn
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RavenQuest Launches Season 2 Guild Expeditions Tournament Read More
RavenQuest has officially launched its Season 2 Guild Expeditions Tournament, marking the game’s largest guild-focused PvE event to date. Running from January 8 to January 22, the two-week competition challenges guilds to earn leaderboard points by completing Expeditions and collecting Jewels. The prize pool exceeds 1.5 million $QUEST and includes Soulbound Land valued at over $100,000. The top-ranked guild will receive 500,000 $QUEST and a Soulbound Fort. A key update this season is the revised Jewel scoring rule, which ties points to the guild a player belongs to at the moment Jewels are earned, limiting late-stage guild switching. The event emphasizes sustained teamwork and reinforces Guild Expeditions as a central pillar of RavenQuest’s endgame progression.
MapleStory N Launches Pudgy Penguins Winter Collaboration Read More
MapleStory N has launched a limited-time winter collaboration with Pudgy Penguins, running from January 8 to January 28, 2026. The event introduces a range of seasonal in-game activities, pets, and collectibles that blend Pudgy Penguins’ aesthetic with MapleStory’s world. Players can participate in themed events such as raising Pudgy characters, winter ice fishing, fireworks displays, and sled-based challenges, earning rewards like EXP, V Coin, and Pudgy Jelly. Collected Pudgy Jelly can be exchanged for exclusive seasonal items. Alongside gameplay content, a dedicated web shop is open from January 8 to February 6, offering limited pets and cosmetic items purchasable with NESO, some delivered as mintable NFTs. The collaboration focuses on exploration, collectibles, and casual participation, offering a content-rich seasonal experience rather than competitive gameplay.
Heroes of Mavia Reveals Alliance Wars Competitive Mode Read More
Heroes of Mavia has announced Alliance Wars, a major new competitive mode planned for release in 2026. The feature introduces large-scale, alliance-based competition, allowing players to join alliances and compete in seasonal, rank-based battles. Early previews suggest a territory-focused system, with alliances earning points through coordinated strategy rather than individual grinding. Alliance Wars has been part of the game’s roadmap since early 2025 and is designed to become a core gameplay pillar alongside existing systems such as Ruby Battles. The mode aims to deepen long-term engagement by emphasizing teamwork, alliance management, and shared rewards. By integrating alliance-wide objectives with seasonal rankings, Heroes of Mavia continues to reinforce its game-first approach, offering players a more strategic and collaborative competitive experience.
Insomnus Gameplay Showcase Set for Somnia Explorer Read More
Somnia Games has announced that Insomnus, a dark pixel survival game developed by Insomnus XYZ, will be featured in an upcoming Somnia Explorer showcase on January 5 at 2 PM UTC. The live session will take place on Somnia’s Discord Stage and will be hosted by PopeyeTrades. Insomnus focuses on endurance-based survival gameplay, challenging players to withstand continuous waves of increasingly difficult enemies in a bleak pixel-art world. The game also integrates web3 technology to enable true digital ownership of in-game assets while keeping core gameplay at the forefront. During the showcase, viewers can expect gameplay footage, developer insights, and potential access to exclusive early-entry codes.
Freya Protocol Accelerates $FREYA Buyback and Burn Momentum Read More
Freya Protocol has announced another major $FREYA token burn, with $96,282 worth of tokens removed from circulation following a recent trading-fee-funded buyback. The project revealed that throughout 2025, more than 56.9% of the total $FREYA supply has been permanently burned through revenue-powered buybacks and its Burn-For-Allocation mechanism. Looking ahead, deflation is expected to intensify in 2026 with the rollout of Freya Protocol V2.0, which will introduce ecosystem-wide, trading-fee-powered buyback and burn mechanics, beginning with $ONE. The update reinforces Freya’s long-term deflationary strategy as it expands its ecosystem of fan economies and IP-driven assets, positioning $FREYA at the core of its growing cultural and digital IP universe.
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Moku Launches Player Arena Campaign with $50K in Grants and Funding Read More
Moku, a Ronin-based Web3 development studio backed by Sky Mavis, a16z Games Speedrun, and others after raising $5.35 million in 2024, has introduced its Player Arena Campaign offering $50K in grants and funding targeted at competitive guilds and communities.
Wildcard Daily Tournaments Run Jan 7-25 with $40K P2E Pool Read More
Wildcard, a 2v2 collectible card action game live on Steam blending real-time strategy and blockchain rewards, is hosting daily tournaments from January 7 through 25. The series offers a $40,000 prize pool across daily events (up to $2,080), weekly tournaments (up to $5,000), and creator cups (up to $2,000 weekly); entry requires 250+ summons earned via gameplay or codes.
Fogo Fishing Play-to-Airdrop Live Ahead of $FOGO TGE Jan 13 Read More
Fogo Fishing, the first fully on-chain fishing game on the Fogo SVM Layer-1 blockchain featuring 0.04-second block times, gasless transactions, and over 1,000 real-time TPS, enables players to earn $FISH tokens through idle-friendly casting and catching mechanics. Activity generates Flames points for $FOGO airdrop eligibility ahead of the token generation event and mainnet launch on January 13, 2026; over 10,000 players have joined, generating around $750,000 in revenue.
