Guild of Guardians: Updating a Web3 Game for 2024
In today’s issue, we look at how Immutable has reworked Guild of Guardians ahead of its global release in May, and there’s must-read highlights from around the gaming world.
The 5 Most Anticipated Web3 Games of 2024
Today we pick out the web3 games to watch in 2024, chat with Immutable in our latest podcast and take a look at Plants Vs Zombies 3, our Game of the Week.
Web3 Market Update – Q3 2023
This quarterly web3 report emerges in the middle of the crypto winter that began in early 2022. There are still a number of first generation web3 games hanging on with a mix of bots and die-hards, but there have been very few impactful game releases for some time. We’ve also seen a pull-back in venture funding, and many ambitious games are still expectedly taking a long time to see the light of day.
Yuga Labs’ Gaming Ambitions
Today’s issue packs in Yuga Labs’ gaming entry, the origin story of new gaming juggernaut Savvy Games Group and our regular weekly market and financing update.
What’s New with Mythical Games?
In this issue, we explore the past, present, and future of Mythical Games’ strategy and games portfolio. We’ve also got some great podcasts and videos worth checking out.
How Yuga Labs is Defining the Future of Web3 Gaming
Having launched some of the biggest NFT collections (including of course Bored Ape Yacht Club), acquired some of the biggest NFT collections (including CryptoPunks and Meebits), raised $450 million from a16z and broken all kinds of web3 records since inception, Yuga is ready to get its game on. It now wants to show the world what web3 gaming can really be, having hired some of the biggest names from Epic Games, Activision Blizzard and Scopely, among others, to senior leadership roles.
Your host, Niko Vuori, speaks with Spencer Tucker, Chief Gaming Officer at Yuga Labs, about Yuga’s gaming ambitions, what “the metaverse” means to Yuga, how passionate the Bored Ape community really is and how to crowdsource growth through networking externalities with zero UA spend.
March 13th, 2023: Market Updates
This week, we’re taking at look at Magic Eden’s “Mint Madness” promotion and how this novel approach in the heated NFT marketplace competition is proving fruitful. We also go over the launch of Illuvium Beyond alongside the best of this week’s market news and analysis.
March 6th, 2023: Market Updates
This week, we’re discussing Unity’s major launch of more than a dozen verified web3 development solutions, and the rising profile of Games For a Living’s Elemental Raiders now that EA founder Trip Hawkins has come aboard.
February 27, 2023: Market Updates
This week, we discuss the all-out war that’s erupted between OpenSea and upstart marketplace Blur and what it means for the future of NFTs, alongside other web3 market updates and news.
Bringing Web3 Games to Mobile
Over the past 15 years, mobile gaming has grown to be the predominant form factor for gamers, generating over two-thirds of global gaming revenues, and an even bigger share of player activity. But when it comes to Web3 games, games that integrate NFTs, digital ownership and tokenized economies, they still almost exclusively exist outside the mobile app stores. Why is that?
To better understand what the mobile options are for game developers, your host Niko Vuori talks with Anil Das-Gupta, Benas Baltramiejunas , and Chris Akhavan.
