Just a few years ago, Shrapnel was expected to become the Call of Duty of crypto. It promised a vivid, sci-fi world — one I saw firsthand at the 2023 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

I got to play a very early demo of the game, where players on a small map had to locate weapons, take each other down and extract mineral-rich asteroid bits known as Shrapnel from the map. Yes, the game was laggy, had bugs and needed technical optimization. But back then, it truly felt like the beginning of an “AAA” gaming experience.

Shrapnel had elements of Escape From Tarkov and Apex Legends — and was planning an optional “GameBridge” NFT ecosystem for players. Gunzilla…

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