Web3 Gamer – Cointelegraph Magazine

There’s trouble brewing in the red-light region of Decentraland called District X.

The ongoing dispute between the leader of District X and a group of community members came to a head with the Decentraland DAO asked to weigh in on the district’s future.

Decentraland districts are collectively owned areas on the map built around a particular theme, in District X’s case: adult content. However, it’s seen little development in the five years since it was established.

Member Morph submitted a proposal on April 12 that the DAO and the Decentraland Foundation should ask OpenSea to mark the district’s land NFTs as stolen until a solution can be found for the issues in the District X community.

Morph alleges that the District X custodian, RobL, took the role without contributors’ input and his Wyoming-based LLC called District X Land Holdings controls the multisig wallet that holds the district’s land. He claims the district pivoted from its original intent, while little development has occurred, and “the worst offense” is that RobL allegedly attempted to sell the entire district.

Morph’s proposal has two more stages to go through until it passes. A preliminary vote showed 73.94% of voting power allocated to support it. He tells Cointelegraph that it “was great to see the community come out and make a majority decision.”

However, RobL denies Morph’s claims about how he had handled the district’s land, telling Magazine:

“There was a claim that I somehow marketed the district for sale, which is also nonsense.”

“However, just to be clear, selling districts is not illegal. Many district owners have over the past two or so years sold their districts,” he says, clarifying that he himself has never sold any.

RobL says that his voting power in the DAO alone is enough to prevent the poll from passing. But even if it passed the final stage, he believes it would not be enacted.

“Why? Because [the] Decentraland Foundation and the DAO all know full well the proposals are filled with misinformation and are at face value patently false… Moreover, Decentraland DAO has absolutely no control over OpenSea,” he says.

The Decentraland Foundation says it’s an external party to the situation and is not involved in the matter. At the time of writing it has not been called on by the community to participate in the proposal.

District 9 director’s vision for blockchain game like an immersive film

One upcoming shooter to watch for later this year is Off The Grid, the first title from indie studio Gunzilla Games. 

A cyberpunk-style battle royale third-person shooter, the blockchain game is set on the fictional Teardrop Island in the Pacific Ocean, where corporations battle for resources. 

Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp of District 9 and Elysium fame is on board as chief visionary officer. Gunzilla Games co-founder Vlad Korolov tells Magazine that Blomkamp is helping turn the game into an interactive player-driven movie.

“Unlike other battle royale games out there, Off The Grid is being developed as a narrative-driven game that will immerse our players into the universe we created.”

The game will be free-to-play with new in-game items regularly added for players to collect and will be available to play on Xbox, PlayStation and PC. Korolov says the game runs on Avalanche subnet Gunz blockchain, but the aim was to make “the experience for our future players as familiar as any other traditional game on consoles.” 

The announcement follows the release of several other blockchain shooter games, including Undead Blocks, and Korolov says that shooting things could be the key to mass adoption.

“Shooter games are the most popular genre in video games today, uniting over half a billion users. It’s only natural that developers and gamers alike want to explore their potential in the Web3 space with a genre that already has such a strong user base,” Korolov explains. 

“While they may not be easy to master, shooter games are easy to learn, pick up and play.”

“They provide an accessible entry point for new users to explore the true benefits of Web3 gaming, such as decentralized in-game item trading and player-owned economies,” he adds. 

Vulcan Forged showing “no mercy” to autoclickers

Vulcan Forged is cracking down on autoclickers, according to a Discord post on April 10. 

It said it had received reports that some players were using autoclickers with its new in-game foraging system and vowed to thoroughly investigate, adding, “Offenders will be shown no mercy.” 

Autoclickers, which mimic mouse clicks to game the system for rewards and cryptocurrency, have long been an issue for Web3 studios. Adam Bendjemil, head of business…