🎮 GDC 2025 Web3 Side Events List — Link

List of all Web3 gaming side events for GDC!

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👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — March 16 to 22 (GDC Week) 🗓

💭 Authors Notes

• Not many GDC announcements + not as many physical booths + sentiment was very poor (likely lowest ever for Web3 gaming so far). Add more information about GDC insights and learnings soon but good to see LimitBreak technology is now expand to Ronin (721C/1155C/20C)

• Forgotten Runiverse now on iOS + approved for Nintendo/PlayStation/Xbox. Global early access on March 26

• Slingshot DAO release $SLING token: $1.4m mcap, $41m FDV (as of write) — DexScreener

• FAME Network (Powering Rumble Arcade) launch $FAME token: $807k mcap, $4.1m FDV
(as of write) — DexScreener

• Interest read on the Showdown(#1 ranked MTG & #1 ranked Hearthstone) building TCG on MegaETH (they are also raising)

• Another interest listen is the "goodGame — How Long will this Bear Market Last?" since gaming sector has performed very bad all this time, helpful especially for founders navigating this period

• Karel is now stepping back as co-founder of Treasure DAO after 3 years ($MAGIC as of write — $42.9m mcap, $49.7m FDV)

• 4 new funding rounds announced — Kamigotchi World (they also complete community echo round), Slingshot DAO, PlaysOut and Game Beast (now Ephyra AI)

🔄 Gaming Updates
• Forgotten Runiverse — Officially approved for development on Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox + Global Early Access Launch on March 26
• Zentry — Meta Madness (March 26)
• LimitBreak — ERC721/ERC1155C & AppTokens (ERC20C) are now live on Ronin
• Treeverse — Available on iOS App Store (Also on Google Play Store + Epic Games)
• XOCIETY — Now on Epic Games Store
• Animix — Airdrop Rescheduled to April 15
• Kuroro Beasts — Kuroro Wilds Alpha 2.0 suspended
• WEMIX — Delay in disclosing $6.2million hack was to prevent panic
• ARBO: Arena Tactics — Alpha Playtest Round 2 now LIVE
• Axie Infinity — All Axie accessories will soon become ERC-1155 tokens (make sure to claim)
• Stoke Fire — Launched farcaster (v2 frame) mini app
• Mithraeum — Now available on mobile

🔖 Gaming Reads
• Showdown — Why the #1 ranked players in Magic The Gathering & Hearthstone are building a TCG on MegaETH
• YGG — Announced LOL Land, a browser-based casual board game (inspired by Monopoly Go) using Pudgy IP, launching at Abstract chain on April 15
• MetaGravity — Quark Multiplayer: The Networking Engine Powering the Future of Online Worlds
• SNG Archive — BTC x ETH: What does this mean for Gaming?
• Karel — Stepping away as co-founder of Treasure DAO
• zang immortal (Metacraft Studio) — Building Under Realm, a grand strategy trading card game in public

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• goodGame — How Long Will This Bear Market Last?
• Open Metaverse Podcast — What Everyone Should Know About Animoca Brands

✅ Gaming Projects
• Under Realm

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• Kamigotchi World — Raised $1.3m seed round from Seed Club, TempleDAO, dcfgod and more to build a fully onchain idle-MMORPG

• Slingshot DAO — Raised $16M from DragonFly, Animoca Brands, DCG, Sfermion, Sanctor Capital, Collab+Currency, Alphabit and more

• PlaysOut — Raised $7m from OKX Ventures, KBW Ventures, Kenetic Capital and more to simplify the integration of mini-games w/ blockchain technology

• Game Beast — Rebranded to Ephyra AI and announced their $10.5M Series A round led by BECKER ventures to create AI-powered companions for gaming

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✅ TheCoreLoop — Your Go to Gaming News

🔫 Gunzilla Games current DAU metrics snapshot — Source

👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — June 30 🗓

💭 Authors Notes

• Treeverse announce $END token and release token whitepaper — View Here

• Azuki TCG docs released — View Here

• Interest see the $PIXEL token will soon shift towards staking/governance with goal to lock most in staking & $vPIXEL contracts to unlock fiat spend

• Some interest listen are Game Economist Cast: Best Web3 Arguments + Animoca Brands: Spearheading Web3 Adoption in Asia with Kaia + GameMakers: HTML5 Gaming is back but this time it's different

🔄 Gaming Updates
• Treeverse — $END token launching soon
• Azuki — Released docs for their Azuki TCG
• Eve Frontier — Free Trial from (June 27 - July 7)
• Bitcraft — Released Early Access
• MetaGravity — Launched early access to its multiplayer infrastructure, quark
• Variance — Somnia Open Playtest in July
• ChainCraft — Accepted into Arbitrum Grants Program
• Raini Studios — Shifting $RST into a fully deflationary token model

🔖 Gaming Reads
• Pixels — $PIXEL to be phased out as reward currency and USDC given instead
• Lumiterra — What is Lumiterra
• Peter — Jin's Fortune Spin is a circular economy (85% of loot recycled back into the market)

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• Game Economist Cast — The Best Web3 Arguments w/ Yat Siu, Co-Founder of Animoca Brands
• Animoca Brands Presents — Spearheading Web3 Adoption in Asia with Kaia
• GameMakers — HTML5 Gaming is back but this time it's different

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✅ TheCoreLoop — Your Go to Gaming News

Treeverse ($END) as of write

$3.2M mcap
$10.4M FDV
90 ETH liq

$END Tokenomics

10% Ecosystem
19.2% Investors
20% Team
50.8% Community

Tradeable on the ETH L1 (Uniswap) + Immutable zkEVM (QuickSwap)

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🐧 Pudgy Penguins — Soon launch they competitive multiplayer game, Pudgy Party on iOS & Google App Stores

• Work w/ the Mythical Games Team
• August 29, 2025 launch date?

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🎮 State of Video Game Layoffs (Matthew Ball) — Read More

• 2022 — 8,500
• 2023 — 10,500
• 2024 — 15,650
• 2025 — 6,700*

*Estimated: 12,000 based on Jan-July Annualized Rate

Vibecoding a Diablo-like 2.5D isometric fantasy dungeon crawler — Read More

Limitless possibilities, all you need is curiosity, willpower and patience

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