👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Weekend + Sept 2 🗓

🔔 Gaming Actionables
• Hamster Kombat — LISTING 🤕 of $HMSTR pre-market futures on OKX (Sept 25)
• Pixelmon — STAKE 🤕 Pixelmon & Trainer NFTs to accumulate MON for Hunting Season
• Counter Fire — PARTICIPATE 🤕 $CEC Launchpool on BitGet 🤕 (Aug 30 - Sept 9)
• Runiverse — REOPENING 🤕 of The Runiverse (Sept 2)
• METALCORE — PLAY 🤕 Metalpunks Rhapsody Season 1 (September 12)

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🔄 Gaming Updates
• Kaia — Kakao's Klatyn & Line's Finschia Blockchains Merge to create Kaia to compete with TON
• D20 Labs — Announced that they have acquired all products & assets under Sugartown from Zynga
• CryptoKitties — Released Open Edition NFT Mint for ckatzegg (Seems there is a new game coming on Flow blockchain)
• Immutable X — Signed official partnership with Netmarble to bring Ni no Kuni & other flagship titles to Web3
• Axie Infinity — Passive Adventure Update for Homeland (September 4)
• Soulbound — Ability Frenzy Update 4.33.16
• Blast Royale — Launched Beta Season 11
• Uncharted — Released their new title, Fishing Frenzy
• Today the Game — Mythic Seed NFT Supply will be 5,555
• Paragons DAO — Introduced Prompt points (Additional reward for $PDT Stakers)
• De:Lithe Last Memories — Topped iOS & Google App Stores in Japan

🔖 Gaming Reads
• Josh Lu (a16z) — Lessons from spending >$1B in marketing from Gabriel Leydon's talk at a16z SPEEDRUN
• Arto (Tribo Games) — Crypto game monetization will go thru some major growing pains
• Runiverse — Footprint Analytics Dashboard
• lordOfAFew (Loot Realms) — Dojo webapps can be turned into native TG apps w/ cartridge controller (Distribution channel for FOCGs!)
• Garga.eth (Yuga Labs) — New division in Yuga (Workshop) will be rolling out the first set of products on ApeChain
• John Patten (Treasure DAO) — Infomon is one of the weirdest/most interesting projects as of late
• Obviously obvious (Devmons GG) — Web3 gaming after Gamescom 2024
• Vetemor — Alleged Illuvium developer has come forward anonymously as a whistleblower revealing why the project is failing
• natealex — Creating a simple mass multiplayer crypto game with no associated NFTs
• Aethir — The Future of Cloud Gaming powered by Aethir
• Infomon — Player Guide for Closed Test Party
• MUD — Introduced World Explorer, making inspecting & interacting with world in MUD more intuitive & efficient
• Wizzwoods — Unveiled the Whitepaper for their SocialFi pixel farming game
• Seeker — $DMT price performance will depend on how well Sankoscape does
• 1mpal — Story of 111%: From Nine Failures to Dreaming of Korea's Supercell

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• Naavik — Emergency Pod: SEC vs OpenSea
• Deconstructor of Fun — TWIG #297: Gamescom Confidential, Why Steam ain't Blocked by China and the TRUTH about Tim Hortons
• Gam3s.GG — Power to the Players
• FaZe — FaZe Banks explains how Crypto gaming will change the world

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• MetaCene — Raised a new funding round from Galaxy Interactive, Gam3Gril Ventures, Sebastien Borget (Sandbox), GiulioX (Pixelmon) and other angels

✅ Gaming Projects
• Spyre
• Bimon
• MERV
• Aolotto
• D20 Labs
• Cat Battle
• Reloader.gg
• Kyzen
• Play Solana

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👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Sept 3 to 7 🗓

🔔 Gaming Actionables
• STEPN — TRY 🤕 STEPN GO Beta Test on iOS & Google App Store (Activation Codes in Discord)
• Bored Ape Yacht Club — PREDOWNLOAD 🤕 Dookey Dash: Unclogged (Releases September 12)
• Crypto Kitties — JOIN 🤕 WAITLIST for new Telegram Game, CryptoKitties: All the Zen
• SuiPlay — PREORDER 🤕 SuiPlay, the world's first Web3-native handheld gaming device (Launches H1 2025)
• Soccerverse — TRY 🤕 Beta Season 2

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🔄 Gaming Updates
• Zynga — Exited its web3 project Sugartown, selling all assets to D20 (Ex-Zynga Web3 team)
• Metacene — Launching $MAK as live circulating currency (Sept 10)
• Forgotten Runiverse — New Foundations Update, New Dungeon (Pyramid) and Open Beta extension to Sept 12
• Catizen — $CATI Spot Listing on ByBit (Sept 20)
• Tatsumeeko — Pre Beta Preview #2 is live (Check email)
• Off the Grid — Apply to be a Pioneer
• 77 Bit — Releasing Fall 2024?
• Crypto: The Game — New Season Coming?
• Spellborne — Unveiled Stellar Pass
• Ronin — Relaunched Bridge
• Chat Royale — Releasing Beta this September

🔖 Gaming Reads
• Matthew Ball — OnlyFans P&L (2019 - 2023)
• Dhrumil (Biomes) — Autonomous World Triangle & how it works in Biomes
• Plotchy (Nascent) — Onchain games will reward those that gather perfect information & know how to use it
• Raschel — Haiku: Winner of Dojo Residency Game Jam 2024
• Halfwish — How has Halfwish, an original PVP Roguelite card game, solved the issues of the genre such as netdecking and uncontrollable RNG?
• Rev0 (Voya Games) — How I sold my gaming company for $160m & became a co-founder at Angry Dynomites Lab
• 1mpal — Retention is Undervalued in Web3 Gaming

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• Onchain Summit — Geist Network: Based Members-Only Gaming L3s
• Doubl3Tap — Episode 28: Henri Stern (Privy)
• HELIX — August Update
• The Block Podcasts — The Crypto Beat Episode 2: Telegram Games
• Gam3s.GG — Asia Loves Web3
• GameSpot — How to Spot Dealbreaker Red Flags in Co-Founders before its too late

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• PLAYTRON — Announced investment from Square Enix to help expand distribution & access to next-gen gaming

✅ Gaming Projects
• Live Bet
• Homies
• FunHub
• Luster Labs
• Bunny Battle
• XPLUS

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👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Sept 9 to 12 🗓

🔔 Gaming Actionables

• NEON Runners — 🕹 Try their F2P Competitive Cross Platform PvP Steam Game release
• MetalCore — 👾 Available to download now on Epic Games
• Paradise Tycoon — 🤕 Participate in final P2A event before launch, Harvest Season

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🔄 Gaming Updates
• Champions Tactics — Open Beta (Sept 18 - 23)
• Elixir DAO — Proposing to burn 1% of $ELIX supply (~$250k+) to celebrate staking launch
• Guild of Guardians — Reached 1m downloads on mobile
• Onchain Heroes — Announced that the launch of their idle RPG will be delayed to Q4 2024
• Axie Infinity — August SLP Stability Fund Update
• Biomes — Realtime beta coming soon
• Frenpet — Gas sponsoring soon
• Aurory — Planning to launch a Seekers of Tokane Pre-Release mobile build
• Ballies Universe — Launching Ballies Universe on Sphere (Collection on IMX zkEVM)

🔖 Gaming Reads
• TON Ventures — Driving the first 50k users to your Telegram Mini App
• Arto (Tribo Games) — F2P games offer lessons for Web3
• Andrea Chang (Oak Grove Ventures) — What has Telegram done right leading TON's growth (Web2 & Web3 Case Study)
• taylor — DOT is now part of a16z Crypto CSX 2024 cohort
• Ahri — Weekly Patch Notes 2
• Delphinus Lab — zkWASM, Mini-Rollup and the Future of Web3 Gaming
• IcoBeast — Potential GRAPES soft rug
• Catizen — All about $BOMBIE

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• Wu Blockchain — Binance Labs Roundtable: How should Blockchain Games respond to criticism of Black Myth: Wukong
• Scenius Studio — Episode 48: Folius, Jason Kam (Web3 pull in China, How telegram tracks against WeChat, Folius' bet on Catizen & development of the TG app ecosystem and more)
• Blockchain Gaming World — Building fully onchain games with Cartridge
• GameSpot — The Secret Ingredients to a Successful Token Launch
• Deconstructor of Fun — Top 3 Mistakes Gaming Startups Make: According to the VCs

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• Moku — Announced $5.35m investment round led by Sky Mavis & a16z Speedrun together with Arca, Framework and 32-Bit Ventures
• VectorShift — Announced fundraising round from Delphi Ventures & 32-Bit Ventures
• CASTILE — Announced $8m fundraising round led by SevenX Ventures

✅ Gaming Projects
• EVE Frontier
• DOT
• Ballies

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👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Sept 13 🗓

🔔 Gaming Actionables
• Mystery Society — Launched their P2A campaign. Play via themysterysociety.xyz

• GOAT Gaming — Launched new game beta, To The Moon. Try via t.me/goatgamingbot

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🔄 Gaming Updates
• METALCORE — Season 1 Launch (September 13, 6PM ET)

• DUPER — Hosting Private meetup to play unreleased version during Token2049 (September 19)

• Last Memories — $GEEK listing on Exchanges (September 26) and airdrop (September 27)

• Pirate Nation — Signups are back (via form now)

🔖 Gaming Reads
• D20 Labs (Sugartown) — Announced Royal Nutz Poker Club, a social casino poker game built on Base

• Oscar (Wolves DAO) — How important is AL/WL Distribution for NFT Mints

• 1mpal — Uncomfortable truth behind Korea's Web3 Gaming

• STEPN GO — September Townhall Recap

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• GAM3S.GG — Women in Web3

• a16z Games — The Secret Behind Blizzard's Success | Allen Adham, Co-Founder of Blizzard

• Naavik — How to bring brands to Roblox

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• Black Block — Announced their $1.4m fundraising round led by Delphi Ventures to continue developing The Sprawl, a systematic sandbox MMO

• Balance Games — Raised a total of $30m across 2 funding rounds led by a16z & Galaxy Interactive to launch Balance.fun, an AI-powered blockchain experience platform

• Orange Cap Games — Announced their $2m pre-seed angel round to develop a trading card game featuring Pudgy Penguins IP

✅ Gaming Projects
• Balance Games
• Coke
• Slingshot Gamers
• Somnis
• Royal Nutz Poker Club

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👋 Token2049/Breakpoint Gaming Recap 🗓

🔄 Gaming Updates
• Ronin — Announced 7 new games that will be building on Ronin (Cambria, Pixel Heroes, Kuroro Wilds, Party Icons, Xtremeverse, Last Odyssey, Infomon)
• Tatsumeeko — Announced their move to Ronin
• Axie Infinity — Released early access form for Axie Pals, powered by Metapals
• TON — Tonkeeper launches dApps Browser in Telegram
• Parallel — Announced that Colony will release its alpha in Q1 2025
• Play Solana — Announced PSG1, the first handheld Web3 gaming device built on Solana
• Pixelmon — Rebranded to MON CO
• Bored Ape Yacht Club — Released Dookey Dash: Unclogged
• Cambria — Released their Genesis Founders NFT collection
• Double Jump — Announced their new game that will use SEGA's Battle of Three Kingdoms IP
• E4C: Final Salvation — Released their Telegram game, E4C: Demon Hunters
• Edison Metaverse — Announced Steam early access wishlist (Release in Q4 2024)
• Illuvium — Beyond Wave 3 Release Date (November 21)
• Blankos Block Party — Migrating to new chain
• Nifty Island — Play 2 Airdrop Wave 3 ends November 1
• Otherside — Project Dragon Episode 3 (September 27)

🔖 Gaming Reads
• BITKRAFT Ventures — Where can small studios win big in today's evolving gaming industry
• Arto (Tribo Games) — The Minimum Viable Session
• 1mpal — Why Korean Gamers resist Blockchain
• Spellborne — August 2024 Dev Update
• Vibes (Pudgy TCG) — How to play Vibes, the Pudgy Penguins Trading Card Game

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• GameSpot — How Founders can go Viral w/ Elisa De Toro Arias (4,4 Labs Co-Founder)

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• Ambrus Studio (E4c: Final Salvation) — Announced multi-million dollar funding round led by Spartan Group

✅ Gaming Projects
• Balance Games
• Happy Town
• Funki
• Blurred Line Labs

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👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Sept 23 to 27 🗓

🔄 Gaming Updates
• Treasure DAO — Announced migration to zkSync. (Treasure L2 will launch on Zk Stack. Mainnet in ~1.5 to 2 months)
• Tatsumeeko — Announced Season 2: Lumina Hunt
• Sparkball — Announced that they are officially building on Monad
• Rift Storm — Will launch on XAI as their flagship title
• Mahjong Meta — Renaming token from $MJM to $MAJ
• Star Symphony — Announced the launch of their mobile alpha version
• Forgotten Playland — Releasing on Epic Games on November
• Hexacore — Hosting $HXC presale (October 3)
• Dayton Mills — Branch for Discord is live

🔖 Gaming Reads
• TON Ventures — How Telegram projects are implementing smart tokenomic strategies for long-term engagement
• David Tso — List of on-chain games w/ focus on fun built on Base
• Ronin — Unlocking Web3 Publishing on Ronin
• caillef — Diamond Pit, first fully on-chain game built w/ cubzh using Dojo
• Illuvium — August 2024 Dev Blog
• Calc.eth — Frontinus House Round 4 Applicants joining the Loot Realms Ecosystem (Lutte Arcade, AWRPG, Octoguns, Mancala, Fallen Order)
• Underware — What we've been up to at Dojo residency, our games and the evolution of Pistols at 10 Blocks

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• The Rollup — Why Treasure Left Arbitrum to build their new chain on ZkSync
• The Scoop — How Ton's Telegram distribution strategy is bringing millions of new users onchain
• GAM3S.GG — Are web3 conferences pointless?
• GameSpot — CEO of Curio, Yijia Chen explains the secret to attracting casual & crypto gamers
• FOCGERS — From captaining Disney game studio to steering Pirate Nation
• Raoul Paul — Avalanche: Gaming & the next crypto revolution ft. John Wu
• Into The Metaverse — Episode 100: Matthew Ball & The Future of the Metaverse (Part 2)
• a16z Games — The Truth about Growing on Twitch

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• Dark Bright Games — Announced their oversubscribed $6m Seed Round led by BITKRAFT to develop Smolbound, a cozy life sim RPG game

✅ Gaming Projects
• RuneLabs
• Sundial Mirage
• Chain of Trust

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👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Sept 30 to Oct 1 🗓

🔄 Gaming Updates
• Ragnarok: Monster World — Announced their official launch
• Onchain Heroes — Announced that they will be building on Abstract Chain
• Catizen — Added Ball Master, to their Game Center
• Age of Dino — Launched Telegram Game, Dino Museum
• Pixelmon — Announced launch of Monster Tycoon, a F2P dungeon crawler from Play Ember using Pixelmon IP
• Variance — Released new trailer for F2P action roguelite

🔖 Gaming Reads
• MORBID-19 — WEMIX Controversy Heads to Court
• Meta Alchemist — Seedify will be launching super low caps via batch incubation programs (10 projects launched below 1M FDV)
• Shades of Green — Insights from Farm Frens stats to optimize levels & upgrades
• Virtuals Protocol — Project Westworld: The First Playable Autonomous World on Roblox
• TON Ventures — How TON has shaped the future of crypto in the last 365 days: From 46K to 4.6M WAU

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• Naavik — Telegram: The Next Great Gaming Platform?
• Topology — Topology is like IPFS but for real-time multiplayer programs, not static files

✅ Gaming Projects
• Miracle Play

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👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Oct 2 🗓

🔄 Gaming Updates
• Small Brain — Early predictions for TMR.NEWS (First natural language prediction market) gets bonuses
• Crypto Kitties — Player progression on TG mini app will unlock airdrops on Flow Network
• Spellborne — Stellar Pass October Edition now available
• Parallel — Patch 0.55.1 now live and will feature Open Beta Season 8: Fearless Stronghold
• Mithraeum — Airdropped tokens to Pirate Nation holders
• Footium — Season 1 Launch (October 8)
• Farcana — Closed Playtest (October 4 - 6)

🔖 Gaming Reads
• Messari — $RON It Back: The Revival of Ronin's Web3 Gaming Empire
• GaspodeWD — From Poker to Web3: The Journey of Sinjin Jung, Founder of Peking Duck Studios
• Delysium — October Event Calendar
• Star Atlas — Q3 2024 Economic Report
• Crypto Unicorns — XAI Grant Update (Will end grant early on Oct. 15) & Future of Crypto Unicorns

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• FOCGERS — Dark Lord Grug's journey to building an FOCG Game Studio

✅ Gaming Projects
• Battle For Blockchain
• CookTon

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