How Five Mobile Games Cracked The Top 100
In this issue, we’re taking a look at five games that have bucked industry trends and broken into the Top 100 highest grossing mobile list. We’ll examine wh... Read more.
League of Kingdoms: An Unremarkable Strategy Game With Remarkable Land NFTs
In this deconstruction, we dive into NOD Games’ blockchain-based MMO strategy game League of Kingdoms and break down how it balances its rather run-of-the-mil... Read more.
Economic Simulations of ILV and SPS Tokens
Testing Hypotheses Around Token Economies In a previous deconstruction, we looked at the token and economic systems of a variety of games, applying a “smoke t... Read more.
The Smoke Test: Are These Game Economies Sustainable?
In this essay, we introduce “the smoke test” — a way to check whether any blockchain game economy is immune from ponzinomic troubles. We apply the test to... Read more.
Game Radar: Guild of Guardians, Phantom Galaxies, Illuvium
In this Game Radar series, we take a look at interesting and hyped upcoming blockchain games — Guild of Guardians, Phantom Galaxies, and Illuvium — and gaug... Read more.
Take-Two Underperforms in Mobile
Take-Two’s acquisition of Zynga seems to be playing out in terms of Net Bookings numbers, propping up the company in the near-term. Can this halo effect last ... Read more.
Game Radar: Genopets, Cross the Ages, & Aurory
In this new Game Radar series, we take a look at interesting and hyped upcoming blockchain games. In this one, we analyze Genopets, Cross the Ages, and Aurory �... Read more.
Is The Future of Hypercasual Bundled?
The hypercasual genre has experienced a ~20% increase in downloads in Q2 2022, but consumer spending in the App Store has also shifted to reflect non-gaming pur... Read more.
Crypto Unicorns: A Unicorn in the Making?
In this deconstruction of Crypto Unicorns, we dig into the team’s mission, the different upcoming game modes, assess what causes the various asset prices to m... Read more.
Is Blockchain Gaming Recession-Proof?
The past few weeks there have been a few articles written (and resurfaced) examining if gaming is indeed recession proof. We unpack the same idea for blockchain... Read more.