This Week in Crypto Games: 'Fortnite' Pumps Solana Coin, 'Deadrop' Players Get Refunds

Mar 16, 2025 - 20:30
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This Week in Crypto Games: 'Fortnite' Pumps Solana Coin, 'Deadrop' Players Get Refunds

The crypto and NFT gaming space is busier than ever lately, what with prominent games starting to release, token airdrops piling up, and a seemingly constant array of other things happening at all times. It’s a lot to take in!

Luckily, Decrypt’s GG is all over it. And if you need a quick way to catch up on the latest moves around crypto video games, we’re happy to present This Week in Crypto Games.

Our weekend roundup serves up the biggest news from the past week, along with a few other tidbits you might have missed. We also showcase a few of our original stories from the week.

Biggest news

Fortnite storyline pumps token: The latest season of the hugely popular battle royale Fortntie surrounds a pickle criminal rapper named Big Dill who is on the run following an alleged crypto rug pull, with a fake news anchor claiming that he had “launched a crypto meme coin called Dill Bits.”

Crypto degens had already clicked onto Dill Bits two weeks prior, after it was added as a new form of in-game currency for high-tier loot in Fortnite, and dropped a real (albeit unofficial) version of it via Solana launchpad Pump.fun. Despite no official ties to the game, the token quickly hit a $4.78 million market cap, but fell to just $145,000 as attention waned.

Following Fortnite’s social media video about Big Dill's crypto shenanigans, the Solana meme coin skyrocketed 4,300% to a market cap of $4.72 million. It has since, however, fallen once again, adding credence to the news anchor's claim that you should never “take financial advice from a pickle.”

Deadrop users get refunds: Upset players of the discontinued extraction shooter Deadrop have started to claim refunds through their banks. Midnight Society, the game studio behind the shooter, had sold early access passes, including $50 NFTs and multiple non-NFT passes priced between $20 and $30. But users claim that they didn’t fully receive the products they paid for.

Those that bought the $25 Tower Key, which allowed users to play early access, claim that they didn’t receive the promised “Season 0 battle pass” that was expected to be delivered alongside the full game. Buyers of the later Drivers Keys passes say that the items were never available to be used in-game, nor were they ever tradable as promised. Decrypt reviewed evidence that users were successfully getting refunds for their purchases after contacting their banks.

Midnight Society co-founder and creative director Quinn DelHoyo told Decrypt last August that it planned to release the full game in fall of 2025. However, the studio struggled following the dismissal of its co-founder, popular streamer Dr. Disrespect (aka Guy Beahm), due to his alleged inappropriate conversations with a minor. In September, it laid off a “significant” portion of its workforce, then completely shut down in January—crushing the hopes of its dedicated fan base.

Sega franchise on Sui: Parasol, a gaming infrastructure subsidiary of Sui network contributor Mysten Labs, announced on Friday that its soon-to-launch trading card game Code of Joker: Evolutions will launch on the Sui blockchain.

The Code of Joker franchise was originally created for arcades in 2013 by iconic video game company Sega, but was later picked up and licensed by Jokers Inc. that is now attempting to revive the series. This time, however, the game has a crypto twist in that players will own in-game cards via NFTs on the Sui blockchain.

It is worth noting that Sega is not developing Code of Joker: Evolutions itself, it is simply licensing the franchise to a Jokers Inc. While Sega has said that it is willing to license its IPs to explore the crypto gaming industry, it also said that its bigger franchises like Sonic the Hedgehog are not up for grabs until this experimental phase is over.

ICYMI

GG spotlight

Here are a few of our original stories from this past week that we think are well worth a weekend read:

Edited by James Rubin

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