👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Oct 3 🗓

🔄 Gaming Updates
• Pocket Waifu — Released TG Waifu clicker game
• 77-Bit — Introduced their 77-Bit Browser MMORPG (Ref Link)
• Shardbound — Open Beta on Epic Games / Steam (Oct 9)
• Blast Royale — $NOOB Loot-To-Airdrop coming to Blast Royale (Oct 7)
• Rumble Arcade — Now live on Beam Testnet
• Juicy Adventure — Juicy Pass minting on Magic Eden (Base)

🔖 Gaming Reads
• WildPaul (WILDCARD) — Announced Thousands TV, a web3-native community platform that integrates streaming, content creation & audience engagement tools designed to make games as engaging to watch as they are to play

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• FOCGERS — The latest batch of fully onchain game grantees from Loot Realms

✅ Gaming Projects
• BRKT
• Pocket Waifu
• ThousandsTV

hope helpful wuwu 😆💞

✅ Gaming News
✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

✅ Bybit — Telegram Gaming w/ Mantle, Hamster Kombat, Catizen, etc

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Look at Gaming #405 | 10.15.2024

GM! Welcome back! The biggest news in web3 is obviously Off The Grid.

This is a moment for web3 games. Gunzilla did the industry a huge favor by subsidizing a lot of the awareness cost (and maybe even user acquisition cost). Now there's an example, a real case study.

The biggest streamers in web2 were fully engaged in the game. We had TimTheTatMan to the crowd favorite Ninja. Initially the streamers were paid to stream but I heard that after a certain point their contracts expired and are now streaming on their own.

There was a comment from Shroud that called out blockchain tech and how game studios don't have to spend millions to build a whole asset marketplace and should just use a blockchain.

But this is literally just the beginning. I remember back in 2020 when Ubisoft released their battle royale game called Hyperscape then two years later they closed it down. There was also Apex Legends Mobile that went down within the same year of launch. Obviously these games failed because of their own reasons but the trend is that Battle Royale is a hard genre to have staying power.

In other news, we had the Hidenburg moment for Roblox. As a research firm under the same nomenclature released a scathing report that Roblox had inflated their numbers by almost 2x in its public filings. Roblox came out disputing these claims. Unsure if Hidenburg Research's short position is still open but $RBLX started the month at $43.53 then dropped as low as $40.51 (7% drop).

Speaking of publicly traded companies, InvestGame & GDEV released a report on the history of Gaming IPOs. 87 companies were analyzed with the first one being Nintendo back in 1962. Asia is the dominant region for IPO listings with 46% then Europe at 35% and US at 18%. As expected PC&Console were the dominant platforms up until 2011-2015 when the split became 50/50. The total capitalization of these companies grew from around $50B in 2000 to peak of $535B in 2020. Now we're at $365B, a 30% drawdown from the peak. There are 8 $1B+ companies in the west and 25 $1B+ companies in Asia.

Two blog posts that I liked are a16z Games' 5 GTM strategies and Deconstructor Of Fun's reporting on how Scopely went from $1B to $10B in 5 years.

That's it for this week! Chat y'all on the flipside.

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⚡ Spotlight 🤩
InvestGame & GDEV: The History of Gaming IPOs | GameDevReports

5 Innovative Go-to-Market Strategies From Indie Game Devs | a16z Games

Roblox’s Hindenburg moment | SuperJoostPlaylist

From $1B to $10B in 5 Years – Scopely’s Journey to Mobile Game Success | DeconstructorOfFun


💎 Deep Dives 🔎
A Comprehensive Guide to Every Live-Streaming Platform | StreamHatchet

Roblox’s Hindenburg moment | SuperJoostPlaylist

InvestGame & GDEV: The History of Gaming IPOs | GameDevReports

From $1B to $10B in 5 Years – Scopely’s Journey to Mobile Game Success | DeconstructorOfFun

Ubisoft's Future | KonvoyVentures


✨ Web 3⃣ + Meta 🌐
Aethir Catalyst Launches $100M Investment Fund | Gam3s.gg

Ubisoft Reveals Release Date for ‘Champions Tactics’ NFT Game | Decrypt.gg


🧠 Knowledge Hub 📘
Everything you need to know about Google AdMob | BrutallyHonest

5 Innovative Go-to-Market Strategies From Indie Game Devs | a16zGames

How your original indie IP can engage audiences beyond the game | GamesIndustry.biz


💲 Fundraising 🤑
Windwalk launches social software Harbor, raises $4.5M in funding | GamesBeat

Third Dimension raises $6.9m towards generative AI 3D world builder | PGBiz

Clout Kitchen raises $4.45m towards League of Legends AI "buddies" | PGbiz

UMX Studio secures $4.5 million investment from Jetapult to expand portfolio | PGbiz

Pip World lands $10M in seed funding | PGbiz

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👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Oct 28 to 30 🗓

🔄 Gaming Updates
• Legend of Arcadia — $ARCA listing (November 4) & Tournament S1 launch (November 7)
• Kamigotchi — Launched testnet 2
• TOKYO Beast — Released whitepaper
• Lumiterra — CBT #2 Launch (November 11)
• Mithraeum — Tournament launch on zkSync (November 18)
• Mystery Society — Live on Google Play Store
• Biomes — Alpha Release Launch
• Moonfrost — Opened up Alpha Release #4
• Tatsumeeko — Launched Lumina Hunt Phase 2
• METAL SLUG — Register to early access alpha
• Reboot — Launched Get Paid arcade on ApeChain
• DF Archon — Dark Forest being ported over to MUD
• Duper — Announced that they will be on Abstract Chain

🔖 Gaming Reads
• Jonathan Huang (BITKRAFT) — Why BITKRAFT is leading Party Icon's $9m private round
• Funki — What is Funki Chain
• Franklin Bi (Pantera) — Investing in Azra Games: The Next Generation of Mobile RPGs
• lordOfAFew — Deep Dive into the Economics of Loot Realms and its commercial viability at scale & why this game is different
• Hyperloot — Announced Project Zero, their new fully onchain game built using MUD wherein players explore, team up, battle and expand in an ever-evolving world
• Crypto Maestro (Vamient Labs) — The tales of Kamigotchi: Its concepts & premise
• Treasure DAO — Wanderers is joining Treasure
• 1kx — These are not the bots you're looking for
• METAL SLUG — The First Run'n'Gun Tactical RPG on Starknet
• Gabe Rabello (VanEck) — Gaming is one of the most promising categories of this cycle: Our 2 key long-term liquid bets
• p/dash — An off-chain game inspired by geometry dash integrated with PixeLAW and built with zkp
• Anton Kraminkin (Sleepagotchi) — When's the right time for a game to do a TGE
• Psycheout (Sky Mavis) — General thoughts about Off The Grid & Web3 gaming

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• FOCGERS — Meet the FOCGER: Shora, PixeLAW
• Deconstructor of Fun — Supercell's Marketing Shakes Up while Web3 Shoots Back
• GAM3S.GG — Are Gaming Tokens NGMI
• WORLDS — Building Open Worlds with David Amor from Playmint

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• Party Icons — Raised $9m private round led by BITKRAFT to develop a mobile-first gaming platform
• Sparkball (Opti Games) — Raised $2m funding round led by L1D together with CMS Holdings, Impossible Finance, YGG and Monad Angel Group

✅ Gaming Projects
• Negation Game
• zKube
• F Foundation
• ETHER BROS
• Newcoin
• Sky Kingdom
• p/dash
• METAL SLUG
• PlayerHouse
• Evermoon

hope helpful wuwu 😆💞

✅ TheCoreLoop — Your Go to Gaming News

👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Weekend + Nov 4 🗓

🔄 Gaming Updates
• MON Protocol — LaunchPool Event #9 (Nov 1 - 4)
• The Machines Arena — P2A Season 2 (Nov 5)
• Party Icons — Closed Beta Test (Nov 6)
• SHRAPNEL — Shrappy Holidays (Nov 18 - 25)
• Maple Story Universe — 2nd Pioneer Test (Nov 20)
• Blast Royale — Released 2025 Roadmap
• B3 — Announced Season 2
• Catizen — $GODL will be the second project on Catizen Launchpool

🔖 Gaming Reads
• Andy Lee — Learnings and thoughts on gaming after launching Legend of Arcadia and its $ARCA token
• Jonah Blake — GTM mistakes that we can learn from Play Off The Grid
• Jon Cooks — Building a game is a dumb idea

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• Game Economist Cast — E34: Halo's Economist, Anti-Cheat Economics, Web3 Property Rights, and Player Price Experiment Complaints? (w/Dr.Jason Arentz)
• Game Makers — The Dramatic Economics Behind Web Stores
• FOCGERS — Dith: From launching the fastest PC to leading GTM at Stripe and Pirate Nation
• FOCGERS — Loaf: Building Realms Eternum during the bear market

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• Gunzilla Games — Raised undisclosed amount from VanEck as their second liquid token strategy investment
• Alliance Games — Announced $5m Series A funding round led by Animoca Brands and Asymm Ventures to build a decentralized AI infrastructure built for gaming
• Delabs Games — Announced strategic investment from TON Ventures to be one of the leading mid-core gaming projects on TON

✅ Gaming Projects
• Project ROG
• Puffy Games
• Unchained
• CapSha
• Supersize
• Unchi Coin
• Dormint
• Collective Casino of the People

hope helpful wuwu 😆💞

✅ TheCoreLoop — Your Go to Gaming News

Look at Gaming #325 | 11.03.2023

GM! Late post for the week got one post from Deconstructor Of Fun that I want to call out.

In web3, we have 69 shooter games but is there still a market for them? DoF gave us an overview of the shooter genre landscape and it's pretty lethal out there.

The market isn't growing. NewZoo data shows that MAU basis for PvP shooter been in decline since 2021 -- decreased from 80M to 50M in 2024. Normalizing the data for the Covid-Pump, a 40% drop is still much higher than 28%.

There is no space at the top. 80% of playtime is dominated by six PvP FPS shooters. New entrants have little stayingpower -- see XDefiant and The Finals fell to 20% of their peak numbers.

Pretty bad picture so how would new web3 entrants survive? The author of the piece identified three elements: Differentiation, Live-Service Strategy, Content Productivity.

1. Differentiation -- can't be just slight tweaks to mechanics like The FInals' ability to destroy everything. Think back to Fortnite combining TPS with crafting. This novel combo introduced new mastery curves and the gameplay permutation.

2. Live-Service Strategy -- just ship more content (LOL!)

3. Content Productivity -- create more game modes or live events with existing content/assets. Be creative (LOL!)

Granted the suggestions at the end weren't great but at least the data was helpful to see the state of the shooters market.

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⚡ Spotlight 🤩
Shooting for Success: Navigating the Ultra Competitive Shooter Genre | DeconstructorOfFun

Data Deep Dive: What Are the Zoomers REALLY Playing? | a16z Games

Games marketing firm Livewire on the attention economy across generations | GamesBeat


🌊 MARKET 📞
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney’s path to the open metaverse is via enlightened self-interest | GamesBeat

Subscription without upsell is death! | PGBiz

Top 100 Social Casino Games have a web shop while casual games only reached 30 | PGBiz

SAG-AFTRA strike will continue after union concludes latest talks with major game studios | GameDeveloper

How video games conquered Hollywood | GamesIndustry.biz

The global view of gaming from a huge external development firm | GamesBeat

Niko Partners: Gaming time increased by 53.2% in the 6 largest gaming countries of Southeast Asia | GameDevReport

How digital is the video games market in 2024? | GamesIndustry.biz


💎 Deep Dives 🔎
Shooting for Success: Navigating the Ultra Competitive Shooter Genre | DeconstructorOfFun

How to Market a Game: The number of Games Released on Steam is significantly higher compared to 2023 | GameDevReports

Epic Games (33 Years) | KonvoyVentures

Data Deep Dive: What Are the Zoomers REALLY Playing? | a16zGames

Games marketing firm Livewire on the attention economy across generations | GamesBeat


🌈 Platforms 🏠
Epic Games' new unified marketplace Fab is now live | PGBiz

Apple is developing a new iOS games hub similar to the App Store | PGBiz

Netflix shutters its only triple-A studio, loses major industry hires | GamesBeat


✨ Web 3⃣ + Meta 🌐
GAM3S.GG New Integration with Arbitrum | Gam3s.gg

State of Telegram Gaming Helika Report Summary for Q3 2024 | Gam3s.gg


🧠 Knowledge Hub 📘
Getting Started with Ad Revenue: Unity Level Play | BrutallyHonest

Everything you need to know about Google AdMob | BrutallyHonest


💲 Fundraising 🤑
Party Icons lands $9 million in seed for mobile-first web3 games | PGbiz


👾 Game & Stats Releases 📊
Oregon Trail is taking the road to a movie adaptation | GameDeveloper

Amazon’s Like a Dragon works better as a mob drama than a Yakuza adaptation | TheVerge

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Cut through the noise with curated insights on AI and crypto — articles, threads, videos, podcasts, and more, all in one place — Thread by Conglomerate

👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Dec 16 🗓

💭 Authors Notes

• This weekend see 2 gaming project ($SOVRN, $MON) secure token slot on the Hyperliquid, will be interest see which other project follow
• HyperLiquid user can check thefarmdotfun, a fully on-chain & autonomous gen AI game build on the HL
• BEAM is launch nodes as transition to the Proof of Stake
• Magic Mainnet is live, can mint some of they cartridges (Need bridge some $MAGIC)
• OhBabyGames release roguelike deck-builder game & Castaways launching new game, new NFTs and token + Fantasy Top V2 + Nifty Island ($ISLAND) TGE
• Zentry release Nexus, play portal (social engagement + on-chain activity) to drive virtual economies
• Up Down Up is must read/listen around success & fail story of game companies + Delphi podcast on the Off The Grid about they plan reinvent around highly competitive Battle Royale genre

🔄 Gaming Updates
• Runiverse — 3 Day Playable Event (Dec 18) + 2025/2026 Roadmap
• SovRun — Announced their token auction for $SOVRN on Hyperliquid
• MON Protocol — Announced their token auction for $MON on Hyperliquid
• OhBabyGames — Shogun Curse officially live and available on Steam, OBB Platform and iOS
• Fantasy Top — Unveiled their V2 and also announced their $4.25m seed round led by Dragonfly
• BEAM — Announced Beam Nodes as the network transitions to Proof of Stake (Node token mint this week)
• Battle of 3 Kingdoms — Closed beta test launch (Dec 26)
• Moonfrost — Alpha Release 5
• Apeiron — Mobile debut launch on both Apple & Google Play Store
• Petopia — Will be launching on Sophon
• Castaways — Unveiled their next plans (New 721-C characters, new game and tokens)
• Nifty Island — $ISLAND TGE & P2E program
• Enter the Mythos — Pudgy Party, new game from Mythical Games & Pudgy Penguins is releasing in 2025
• Gomble Games — EggDrop Bot merging with Gomble Squad next week

🔖 Gaming Reads
• Tax Cuts (Primodium) — Which solutions do building games on-chain bring?
• Zentry — Announced the release of NEXUS, a play portal where social engagement & on-chain activity drive virtual economies
• thefarm.fun — The Farm: Game Design, Features & Tokenomics
• MegaETH Only — BiomesAW AMA
• Paul (Pantera Capital) — Why TON is a great place for game developers to launch their next game

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• Deconstructor of Fun — Up Down Up: Why some game companies succeed, while others fail
• Delphi Podcast — Off The Grid: Inside Neill Blomkamp's Game World
• GAM3S.GG — 2024 End of Year Review

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• Moonray — Announced their $10m fundraising round from Republic Crypto, Animoca, Polygon, C² Ventures, Huobi, Cardano and MV Global to develop a fast-paced, competitive arena combat game

✅ Gaming Projects
• Farcade AI
• Yoton Yo Studios
• Abyss World
• Indie.Fun
• Sonzai Labs

hope helpful wuwu 😆💞

✅ TheCoreLoop — Your Go to Gaming News

👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Dec 17 🗓

💭 Authors Notes

• InfiniGods ($GOD), secure token slot on the Hyperliquid ($975,746) interest see if volume for other game project continue
• Catizen ($CATI), now support on the Telegram Wallet + BEAM release more information around they nodes which earn rewards, protocol fees + incentives from BEAM foundation (Example: $ATH, $ZENT, $SAGA, etc)
• Can try mint some Geist Network Gotchigram Open Edition NFT
• Ragnarok: Monster World transition more Web3 integrate experience ("No NFT, no $ZENY, more NFTs, more benefits"). They will introduce they $RUPI ecosystem token Dec 2024 replace utility function of $RON previously until they TGE they token $ZENY
• Stoke Fire (mention previously) now do 30x 😳
• Good Game Podcast about the year 2024 is helpful watch for crypto founders discuss many topic like the biggest trends + predictions for 2025. Interest see TON + Off The Grid mention. Also include the Rise & Play podcast talk about next-gen fashion games (Have not see much so far in the Web3)

🔄 Gaming Updates
• InfiniGods — Announced their token auction for $GOD on Hyperliquid
• Catizen — $CATI now supported in Telegram Wallet
• Sipher — Coconut Update Patch Notes
• Ragnarok: Monster World — Key Updates & changes
• Otherside Meta — Season 2 Episode 2 launch (Dec 18)
• Aavegotchi — Gotchiverse 3D Launch (Dec 21)
• Sunflower Land — SFL in-game marketplace launch
• Beacon — Writ of Passage holders get WL mint access + WoP & Zeeverse Land get airdrop

🔖 Gaming Reads
• BEAM — Evolving into a L1 blockchain after the Etna upgrade + BEAM Nodes

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• Rise & Play — Building the next gen fashion game w/ Nicola Mizon
• GoodGame Podcast — Episode 67: 2024 Review & 2025 Market Predictions

✅ Gaming Projects
• TACOM
• WorldWide Agents
• towerdefense.fun
• Quasar
• FIFA Rivals
• TeleMafia

hope helpful wuwu 😆💞

✅ TheCoreLoop — Your Go to Gaming News

👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Dec 18 🗓

💭 Authors Notes

• MapleStory Universe release public dashboard (can see they early metrics: 22k DAU, 4.42hr avg daily playtime, 56.26% in-game token spending rate). Think most interest is they daily $NESO revenue from trading fee (14%) versus item enhancement (86%), currently ATH

• DeLabs release they TG mini-app for core games, can signup here & have 100% dew points boost for next 2 weeks. Interest as most TG games only focus hypercasual/casual but because ad component is still very early in TG, revenue is limited and only from spending farmer

• Rumble Arcade announce they expand to Telegram. Can try they early version dapp

• Pixels announce they new ecosystem game (Pixel Dungeons). Interest is this game share data w/ they existing title + $PIXEL currency as part of they plan to figure out the P2E

🔄 Gaming Updates
• Smolbound — Next playtest in Q1 2025
• MapleStory Universe — Released Analytics Dashboard by Helika
• Delabs Games — Announced their TG mini app that will be launching core games for Telegram
• Rumble Arcade — Announced their expansion into Telegram & 2025 roadmap sneak peek
• PIXELS — Announced Pixel Dungeons a new game joining its ecosystem & its playable closed beta
• Ragnarok: Monster World — Dec 19 Update Note
• Champions Tactics — Season 2 Launch
• Aurory — Announced Winter Wonderland event launch
• Ruyui Studios — Announced that they are welcoming Pudgies to the Ruyui Universe (Pudgy Penguins & Elite Chads can claim a special role in Discord)
• METALCORE — Season 2: Gearbreakers Glory launch & migration to Solana
• Gangster Arena — Season 8: Stash now live on Blast
• Elderglade — Announced their mini dapp launch on LINE

🔖 Gaming Reads
• technoir (BITKRAFT) — Yeomen AI is a great automation sidekick tool for on-chain games
• Ethan — Why I started building Digimon, an AI creature that evolves with its community
• Saga — Everything you need to know about Saga Mainnet 2.0
• sgd — Introductory thread about thefarm.fun

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• a16z Games — The Brothers who changed the future of fighting games

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• Big Time Studios — Launched $150m Open Loot Fund for Web3 Gaming

✅ Gaming Projects
• Pixel Dungeons
• Digimon

hope helpful wuwu 😆💞

✅ TheCoreLoop — Your Go to Gaming News