24 April 2026 | Weekly news roundup

FIFA Rivals moving to Pulse market, Verse8 x YGG hackathon results and Hytopia's worrying pause.

• [00:16] Mythical Games is migrating FIFA Rivals to the new Pulse marketplace.
• [02:46] But there's been some sort of delay. FIFA Rivals is the last of Mythical's games to migrate.
• [04:19] The significant change with Pulse is it uses the USDC stablecoin.
• [05:51] Why in-game item markets should use stablecoins, not volatile tokens.
• [07:20] With Pulse, you can sign in with email and/or external wallets like MetaMask.
• [09:54] Mythical Games has learned some hard lessons to get to this point.
• [15:44] Verse8 and YGG Play announce its Buidl Hack winners.
• [16:40] What Verse8’s AI game-making platform actually does.
• [20:00] Bank or Plank — the winning pirate board game is pretty good.
• [22:22] Roblox-on-blockchain platform Hytopia has paused operations while awaiting a tax refund.
• [28:00] Server costs, lost momentum and the blockchain game funding problem.
• [32:36] Why sustainable blockchain games need to start out with leaner teams.
• [35:16] Parallel Studios launches its trading card game on mobile app stores.