Exploring New Trends in Rewarded Play
In today’s issue, we explore how rewarded play is evolving, talk game tech in our latest podcast and round up the best articles and news from the last week.
Meet us at Gamescom 2026, August 26-27th 
Meet us at Gamescom 2026, August 26-27th 
In today’s issue, we explore how rewarded play is evolving, talk game tech in our latest podcast and round up the best articles and news from the last week.
After the meteoric rise – and equally meteoric fall – of Axie Infinity, the term “Play-to-Earn” lost much of its cachet, and web3 developers avoided the term throughout the 2022-23 crypto winter. Adjacent concepts such as “Play-and-Earn” or “Play-to-Own” proliferated instead while developers and investors largely ignored the genre, and P2E was effectively declared dead….
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