Cimu Games is using Ready Games' web3 game development tools to re-release its million-selling Runestone Keeper.
Cubetopia is a Web3 game that brings the world of Minecraft to World of Warcraft on the blockchain.
Alóki is based on an intricate relationship with the 750 acres of jungle in Costa Rica.
Blockchain experts discuss the future of the metaverse, GameFi, Web 3.0, and what’s in store for Bitcoin in 2022.
Everscale, one of Asia’s premier blockchain networks, has concluded its online Elysium hackathon.
Despite GameFi's controversial reputation. Metakings Studio believes that it has tackled the GameFi implementation problem with the release of BLOCKLORDS.
An interview with Don Norbury, Head of Studio at Shrapnel. Don explains how GameFi is the future of online gaming and why Shrapnel stands out from the rest.
Polygon & Hashed spearheaded a $5 million pre-Series A investment round and grant for PlotX, a gaming dapp based on Polygon.
Blockchain gaming has come a long way since Huntercoin debuted in 2014. Since then, developers - primarily blockchain developers, not game developers - have been experimenting with how to mix gameplay with tokenomics. From a technical perspective, the innovation that is blockchain seems poised to enable the next version of the web. However, its application to games has been mixed at best. Primitive gameplay, low production values, and shallow narratives has been the norm for most blockchain games to date.It wasn’t until CryptoKitties launched in 2017 that a blockchain game had any success in finding an audience. But when it did, the impact was jaw dropping. The game caused massive congestion on the layer 1 Ethereum network, leaving many developers skeptical of blockchain’s capacity to facilitate the kind of quality, technologically seamless experience that players are accustomed to and expect. Despite the challenges, the industry has seen improvements in recent years as layer 2 networks and better interoperability are facilitating a greater depth of gameplay. While early game structures depended predominantly on randomized chance for players to earn rewards, designs have advanced such that rewards now come predominantly from gameplay, providing much more engaging experiences. Fuelled by ongoing innovation and the explosion in popularity of play-to-earn games like Axie Infinity, the blockchain gaming industry grew by a staggering 765% in 2021 versus the previous year. Metaverse spaces like Decentraland, The Sandbox, and Somnium Space are also making waves as they redefine the creative and economic boundaries of how players can engage with virtual worlds. Irrespective of the growing market, there’s no hiding from the fact that traditional players are extremely resistant to blockchain in gaming. Major publishers that have recently announced their intentions to integrate NFTs into new and existing games have faced vociferous pushback from gamers who do not see any tangible benefits of the technology. Instead, they argue that NFTs are simply a scheme to charge more for in-game purchases. The introduction of free-to-play microtransactions - purchases that unlock specific features or give players unique abilities, characters, or content - has left many gamers feeling taken advantage of. It’s little wonder players are suspicious of blockchain’s utility.It’s more interesting to think of blockchain as a collection of composable microservices that provide novel player experiences, rather than a provenance technology that gets crammed into a game without first considering how it can be used to enhance what’s already great about that game. Gamers don’t fire up a session to explore a new financial infrastructure; we want an adventure where we transcend the real world and perhaps embody a totally new persona. In order to build player trust, studios need to focus on amplifying what players already enjoy. When implemented effectively, blockchain offers a system of services that can enhance gameplay and utility. The common thread that interlinks these services is player empowerment. Whether that's the ability to trade or sell their in-game purchases or having a vote on a game’s governance and feature roadmap. By minting items, XP, and avatars, players ensure transparent verification and traceability of their assets, increasing trust in the process of exchange and providing a way for players and creators to be rewarded for user generated content. On the governance side, DAOs and other voting mechanisms can be integrated into game infrastructures to increase player involvement in the design of the games they invest so much time in. Where players have previously felt excluded from the direction and development of a franchise, blockchain democratizes the process, making it possible for players to design, develop, and remold games based on their experiences. It’s a little scary, empowering players to this degree, but it’s really just an extension of the feedback loop developers already employ in games-as-a-service. Where a few studio execs have previously driven innovation, updating gaming infrastructure in this way can enable the real time integration of players into the creative process. After all, we’re not designing our game; we’re designing their game. Blockchain has obvious potential, but we have to address player objections before it can evolve much further. The low production values and shallow gameplay of the few blockchain games in the market has made traditional gamers suspicious of the technology’s capabilities to produce the kind of games they know and love. We have yet to see a AAA game that prioritizes gameplay, rich graphics, and compelling narratives, while backending its infrastructure with blockchain technology to empower players and create new experiences. It’s a tall ask, but we’ve been here before. It’s easy to forget that the shift from premium to free-to-play was just as contentious.
The crypto market has seen tremendous growth in 2021. Crypto launchpads, the incubators of new projects based on the blockchain, own a due part of the credit.
Most blockchain games are barely playable and severely lack the quality traditional gamers expect. Here are some games that can potentially be a solution.
Axie Infinity ($AXS) was undoubtedly 2021's NFT gaming moonshot, but hacks and controversy have sent it crashing back to earth. Can they ever make a comeback?
Games are taking over web3. A Data source has shared that despite the failure of FTX, web3 games have raised over $320 million in November alone.
GameFi is a new monetisation model that will let gamers earn money from gaming. But how will it work and what can we expect from this new form of monetisation?
Game developers decided to return people's motivation to sports. This article is about StepN and other move-2-earn projects where users get tokens for a run.
Juanjo Chust is CEO of Arker Labs, a company founded in 2018 which has been developing all kinds of applications.
GameFi offers a unique gaming model and financial framework that’s focused on rewarding gamers with cryptocurrencies or NFTs just for playing games.
Web3 and GameFi are a jungle to promote your brand in. Where should you focus your marketing efforts to build the future of gaming in 2022? And how to navigate
Want to know the next thing in GameFi/Metaverse in 2022? Don’t miss these 3 projects!
GameFi concept (derived from ‘DeFi’ (decentralized finances) and ‘game’) was introduced in September 2020 by Andre Cronje, Yearn.Finance core contributors and ‘Father of DeFi’. But is GameFi the next big thing?
WonderHero, a play-to-earn NFT based game, became the first game to launch 10 gaming guilds bringing nearly $2.5 million USDT in-game assets.
What do you get when you combine Clash of Clans, Pac-Man, and Elden Ring? You get the Aavegotchi Protocol's flagship game, The Gotchiverse.
To predict the future, we must look to the past. A brief look at the history of subscription-based access shows that Microsoft was an early adopter.
The metaverse has taken the world by storm, introducing a completely new perspective on reality. Today, the closest thing to the metaverse can be seen in Game.
Blockchains allow gamers to gain control over both the digital items they use, as well as voice their concerns and suggest changes via governance tools.
Cosmic Champs drops its second round of NFTs in preparation for upcoming Beta.
Why does the number of users in Metaverse crypto companies grow slowly or even decrease? How to onboard more users in your Metaverse project? All the answers a
In traditional gaming, microtransactions allow companies to receive billions, but gamers receive zero monetary benefits in return for their time investments.
The Multi Online Battle Arena (MOBA) is the most successful genre in gaming history. This genre can sometimes be referred to as Real Time Strategy (RTS), and the MOBA is technically a subcategory of the RTS.
List of the best Web3, NFT, and play-to-earn games being developed on Solana, a leading blockchain ecosystem for the emerging GameFi revolution.
How to start playing with the new Play2Earn/GameFi games like Axie Infinity, Ember Sword and more as well as how to analyse these games for your research.
When designing and developing web3 games, there are a few different ethical considerations to take into account. Read about these ethical considerations.
In this article, we wanted to discuss some of the characters you will encounter in our game. Today, we’ll introduce you to Zeus, Hades and Metis.
Everscale has been in production for two and a half years, so it’s a pretty thoroughly tested network with many applications and dApps.
Cats Corporation is a alternative universe developed by a group of cat-loving artists. Projects like Cool Cats and Crypto Kitty influenced us.
To add to the ever-growing list of progressions within the crypto world, IGO launchpads are helping accelerate the growth of the GameFi industry by investing.
Mirror World (a GameFi Project that uses AI to create 3+ asset-sharing games) recently announced they had raised more than $4 million in seed round financing.
Every cryptocurrency bull market seem to have been driven by a few big narratives. One of the next big narratives I believe will be GameFi.
Cronos is an open-source, public, public blockchain network. It is the first Ethereum-compatible blockchain launched on the Cosmos SDK.
Snook, a popular online multiplayer IO game, has introduced its BBT Themed rooms for ecosystem partners.
Meet the blockchain writer and technical SEO expert LuAd Ifedayo Bello
3 lessons from Play-To-Earn can be adapted and applied in other products like DeFi and drive a new wave of innovations.
We understand how difficult it is to find 10 players to play with, especially for a new indie game. Can you imagine playing a first-person shooter without anything to shoot at? It simply didn't make sense. As a result, we decided to include bots in the game so that players could play even when their buddies were unavailable.
Of what use are gaming NFTs, aside from their uniqueness and effectiveness in the game?
While GameFi itself is an exciting prospect, what really makes this market so vibrant has been the introduction of the play-to-earn model.
I want to thank the HackerNoon community and staff for their nomination in the Web 3 category.
Earning is nice, too, but users want to see GameFi adoptions where the fun and actual gaming experience is more important than the game's monetization.
An overview of Enjin and its ecosystem updates for 2022 to see how it will change and evolve in the year to come thanks to new opportunities for the system.
Switch from P2E to P&E to garner long-term sustainability within GameFi. Join OpiPets as they utilise P&E and storytelling to catalyse GameFi's mass adoption!
The biggest problem with the metaverse currently is the lack of technology and infrastructure to support a seamless and cohesive virtual world experience.
First glimpse of the Web3 gaming space leaves a lot to be desired!
To state the obvious, GameFi is one of the most appealing sectors for newbie users within the crypto space. It successfully attracts users who are not into the complex technological solutions of DeFi projects. Secondly, GameFi has given retail investors more opportunities to enter the market.
Wayra, Telefónica's open innovation initiative, invests in Champion Games. The video game studio in Barcelona has created Metasoccer, the first soccer metaverse in which you can manage your own club and generate income while playing. The game is aimed at both play-and-earn players and soccer fans interested in getting into the metaverse and web3 gaming.
Nearly Friendly Tribes is an upcoming FPS game that we have been developing and perfecting over the past few months. As we work towards launching the game, we recognize the need for a diverse and interesting cast of characters for our players to enjoy. This has led us to start designing new characters, each with their unique vibe and style. We are excited to announce that our latest addition to the game is the Blues character.
Introducing the 2 times best crypto journalist in the world, Alfredo de Candia! He's the #1 winner of the Best Crypto Journalist award in 2022
How can blockchain game projects get out of the death spiral and apply to the esports business model?
A look at the benefits of defi in the crypto-gaming industry
The gaming industry is one of the latest to integrate blockchain, crypto and NFTs especially with the growth of the metaverse.
A brief introduction to Splinterlands and the philosophies it's founded on.
Neon Link is opening the pre-sale of its native $NEON coin that will cover all the transactions within its ecosystem.
The Last Country is the first blockchain-based game in the MetaPlan series and a construction and management simulation (“CMS”) game set in a post-apocalyptic w
Whether you select Donkey Kong to race and throw around bananas in Mario Kart or take a lot of time creating a photo-realistic wastelander with a lot of cool scars in Fallout 4, well-developed characters are essential to any game because they serve as an emotional bridge between the player and the screen. Most players prefer to specialize in a unique character that matches their gaming style or simply because they like the vibe of the character. This phenomenon is known among gamers as "maining a character" and it can be seen in a variety of games such as League of Legends, Valoran, Smash Bros, Dota2, and others.
On average, global gaming enthusiasts will spend 8.45 hours on various forms of gaming.
Solutions that DeFi can offer to play-to-earn projects. How to improve the in-game economy and create profitable projects for players. The answer is DeFi.
India's gaming sector has achieved 38% astronomical growth and is expected to exceed $ 5 billion by 2025. India, home to 420 million onlinegamers, is also second only to China.
The necessity for provable on-chain random numbers in blockchain using true random number generators (TRNG) and the solution from High Performance Blockchain.
Colizeum, a software development kit startup that provides SDK for mobile game developers and the Play-2-Earn economy, raised $8.4 million.
As blockchain technology grows in popularity, so does its number of valid applications in and beyond finance. One such example is GameFi, an innovative in-game economical system that allows players to have a greater influence on a game's economy and development.
This article dives into the theory and shares some basic information about what the Play-to-Earn industry is all about.
Are you looking for new crypto games? Here I gathered the top 5 games with NFT for 2022 that have great potential. Read this article to learn more.
In this article, I’ll share our vision of the processes that are now impacting GameFi — and how to use them to create a successful strategy.
The rising popularity of blockchain gaming is also helping to spread crypto adoption among the masses.
Football is embracing Fan Tokens and the blockchain as the sport evolves through the pandemic and embraces the potential for Web 3.0 and other technologies.
Similar to racing games, maps in FPS games have a significant impact on gameplay because they define strategy and it can be difficult to balance.
For eons, traditional games have isolated players from other games and, in some cases, other players. GameFi changes that, read more to find out.
Blast Royale is part of a new movement where players own their own in-game items.
It’s no secret that the video game business is extremely lucrative, with the industry recently valued at $178 billion.
A guide to finding good web3 games and avoiding scams in 10 steps
DeFi Land is an online game that simulates multi-chain agriculture to gamify decentralised finance.
The Metaverse concept has also recently gained popularity, thanks in part to incorporating blockchain technology into GameFi.
Play-to-Earn, Metaverse, and GameFi are the latest hype in the crypto space as they help bridge the traditional world with the crypto world.
While some games require an investment in tokens or NFTs, others allow people to earn crypto just by playing it.
Skrice Studios has announced the completion of its $5.5 million initial fundraising round for Heroes of Mavia, a blockchain-based play-to-earn strategic game.
Web3 is creating waves of excitement in the world of tech. I spoke with Justin Wu, founder of the web3 community DCENTRAL, to discuss the industry's future.
DeFi Seeks to Monetize Blockchain Gaming
The Polkastarter Gaming GAM3 Awards 2022 has crowned its winners on December 15 marking the conclusion of the inaugural edition of the awards.
DeFi Land brings multi-chain gameFi farming to the gamers based on farming in a gaming and DeFi based environment.
KuCoin Community Chain (KCC) has announced the KCC Unicorn Contest has ended, with 14 projects winning an incentive prize pool of approximately $1 million, incl
This article tackles some of the most important things one should know before embarking on blockchain games.
E-sports teams and players, as well as casual gamers, can now compete for crypto on any game, on any platform capable of streaming to twitch, Facebook Gaming.
The GameFi market is on the rise, with new Play-2-Earn games captivating the minds of avid players. The industry is expected to reach $2.8 million
The metaverse builds on blockchain's possibilities and the borderless world guaranteed by cryptocurrencies. It extends the physical, taking activities to the digital realm and into the interactive virtual world. In 2021, metaverses were fused with play-to-earn (P2E) blockchain games, introducing new and better experiences. Besides, it became normal for established corporations to participate, spending millions to purchase digital land. Although virtual real estate can't be visited physically, its provenance and security are the main allure. Digital land is sold as NFTs, secured by public ledgers such as Ethereum, existing as forgery-free digital certificates.
A quick rundown of the coolest Cyberpunk games that you can play to earn!
IGOs are Initial Game Offerings - a new way of fundraising for blockchain gaming projects. It's suitable for Play2Earn (Play to Earn) and crypto projects.
Battle of Olympus is an arcade-style fighting game with rogue like elements that is placed in a futuristic cyberpunk city called Olympus.
The global gaming community is currently witnessing large-scale adoption of Play-to-earn gaming. This piece explores the drivers of this increasing success.
The Web3 space has seen its fair share of value propositions come and go throughout the years, with some living up to expectations, and others not so much.
Late last year when I pitched Pocket Arena to crypto VCs, some of them were not impressed that Pocket Arena is basically running on centralised governance and structure ( database & private blockchain), and that Pocket Arena will use the public blockchain ( Ethereum side-chain which we are currently developing) for end user’s P2P game item trading and the ownership purpose only. Instead, they seemed to prefer a project that runs 100% on-chain. Even though I explained why a gaming service should not be 100% on-chain, they were not bothered about that.
How games are implementing NFTs, and why the multibillion-dollar GameFi and blockchain gaming market has been named one of the top trends of 2022.
Crypto gaming is a brand new sector that started drawing public attention roughly one year.
The gaming industry is at an inflection point, as platforms go from fragmented experimentation with blockchain technology to potential mass implementation of P2
Deep dive into the concept of the gamified DAO and learn how users can participate in the project development via voting
Bing Ventures' research team believes that the crypto market will likely show positive signs of bottoming out in 2023 after an extended bear market.
GameFi is one of the most discussed topics in the crypto industry, gaining popularity and increasing the scale of use.
This article has tried to cover various dimensions of metaverse gaming entertainment based on blockchain technology.
PlotX is a non-custodial decentralized prediction protocol that enables users to predict the future of crypto assets.
After introducing you to the game characters' initial conceptualization in the previous DevBlog, it is now time to design the weapons that the characters use.
Do you want to start investing in NFT? Find out how to invest in NFTs in detail, reviewing the best NFTs and the top pitfalls to avoid before you start to buy a
A review of the current Crypto gaming landscape, particularly on the economic design, stakeholders, and core gaming principles.
The blockchain gaming industry is about to start a boss fight with Web2 gaming. What will it take to level up and enter the mass market?
The esports industry has experienced a significant expansion over the past ten years, and the introduction of blockchain technology and P2E games has the potential to completely revolutionize the sector.
Blockchain gaming's in a nascent stage but poised for a massive Web3 gaming revolution. There are fundamental considerations involved when Game meets Chain.
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