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The best artillery-themed party game is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and you can get all the series' best entries for less than five bucks




You heard it here first: Mario Party is for scrubs, and Jackbox, well, Jackbox is pretty fun. But Worms is where it's at—the 2D tactics game might have started on the Amiga, but it's long been a multiplayer standard on PC where Team17 has pumped out sequels for three decades as of 2025. It's celebrating the occasion with a series-wide Steam sale where many of its best games can be bought for two or three dollars...
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Worms/Alien Breed Live Stream!



📢 Calling all Worms!

Team17 will be hosting a Worms and Alien Breed Livestream on Friday, 29th April at 15:00 BST!

Join us as we take on Alien Breed and Worms on the A500 Mini! 👀 🎮

📺 Tune in at: Team17

https://store.steampowered.com/app/70640/Worms/

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Staff turn on Team17 in the wake of its calamitous NFT u-turn




Team17 hasn't had the best start to 2022. It tried to jump on the NFT bandwagon, got booed, and immediately jumped off the bandwagon—but not before covering itself in the manure onboard. The publisher recently announced that it would be diving into NFTs with the MetaWorms project, to which the reaction was not so much bad as uniformly terrible...
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Team17 cancels NFTs

Indie label Team17 has announced an end to its MetaWorms NFT initiative, following public backlash from both players and development partners. The company now says it will "step back from the NFT space". The MetaWorm project was initially described as an "environmentally friendly'' take on NFTs, allowing people to own digital art of Team17's most iconic property, Worms.


"Team17 is today announcing an end to the MetaWorms NFT project," the company says in a press release. "We have listened to our teamsters, development partners, and our games' communities, and the concerns they've expressed, and have therefore taken the decision to step back from the NFT space."


According to a report from Eurogamer, many within Team17 didn't know about the NFT project prior to its announcement. Several developers behind Team17-published games, including Playtonic, Ghost Town Games, and Aggro Crab have publicly distanced themselves from the announcement.


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Worms emerges from the mud to issue NFTs




Team17 has announced that, yes, it hasn't made quite enough scratch from Worms over the years: So it's crypto time, baby. The publisher is partnering with Reality Gaming Group, probably best-known for that dodgy looking Doctor Who NFT card game, to release NFTs based on the muck-dwelling annelids, which will cover the 26 year history of the series...
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