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Web3 Gaming Startup GFAL Raises $3.2M in Funding Round Led by Supercell and Mitch Lasky
30.4.2024
Web3 video games startup GFAL “Games for a Living" has raised $3.2 million in a seed funding round led by the Finnish mobile game development company Supercell Ltd and Mitch Lasky.
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Verasity and Creo Engine Partner to Enhance Creo Play with Video Capabilities and Innovative Rewards
27.4.2024
Verasity, an ad-tech company and issuer of the $VRA token, has announced a new partnership with Creo Engine, a rapidly expanding web3 gaming platform, to integrate VeraViews’ video player functionality and in-game rewards into Creo Play's extensive gaming library.
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Immutable releases the biggest Web3 gaming rewards scheme
26.4.2024
Immutable, a blockchain gaming platform, has delivered the most extensive Web3 gaming quest and rewards scheme, which they named The Main Quest. The company has managed to set aside the amount of $50 million, and token rewards will be dished out to connected players. According to Immutable, they...
Binance Labs, Coinbase Backed Web3 Gaming Guild GuildFi Rebrands to Zentry
24.4.2024
Web3 gaming guild GuildFi that raised $140 million from Binance Labs, Coinbase Ventures, Animoca, Pantera Capital, Hashed and others, has been rebranded to Zentry.
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Yuga Labs Sells IP Rights of Two NFT Games in Strategic Move – Here’s the Latest
19.4.2024
Yuga Labs, the creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs, has sold the IP rights of two of its games, Legends of the Mara and HV-MTL, to Web3 gaming firm Faraway. The move is part of a strategic restructuring effort to refocus the organization. Simultaneously, Yuga Labs' chief gaming officer...
Sui Blockchain Partners With TikTok Subsidiary BytePlus to Explore Web3 Gaming Opps
17.4.2024
Layer 1 blockchain Sui has partnered with BytePlus, a subsidiary of TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, to explore artificial intelligence and Web3 gaming projects on Sui’s blockchain.
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ARPA Network Partners with Cradles for Enhanced Web3 Gaming Experience
10.4.2024
ARPA Network forms an exclusive collaboration with Cradles to nurture the ever-transforming Web3 gaming exposure. The ARPA Network is the force behind Randcast, a safe, on-chain, authenticable random number generator (RNG). Cradles is an AAA MMORPG blockchain game with PvP and PvE. Cradles, on...
Luke Barwikowski, CEO of web3 Game Pixels, on The Current State of Web3 Gaming, Growing to 500K Daily Active Users, and Building on Ronin Blockchain | Ep. 322
2.4.2024
Luke Barwikowski, the founder and CEO of Ronin-based social Web3 game Pixels, discusses Pixels’ development and successes, its move from Polygon to Ronin, the token going live on Binance, what it takes to launch a Web3 game, and why projects should wait before launching a token.
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$62 Million Munchables Hack: Rogue Developer Returns All Funds, No Ransom Demanded
29.3.2024
Web3 gaming app, Munchables, announced on March 27 that an individual who exploited the system agreed to return the stolen funds without a ransom demand. This announcement came just hours after a former developer siphoned off more than 17,400 ethereum coins by gaining access to the Munchables lock...
Web3 Gaming Platform Elixir Raises $14M Funding From Solana Foundation and Square Enix
28.3.2024
Web3 gaming platform Elixir Games has raised a $14 million seed funding round from Square Enix, the Solana Foundation and Shima Capital, and others.
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Munchables Retrieves All Funds from Exploiter, Refund in Progress
27.3.2024
Former Munchables developer opts to return the exploited funds without ransom as the web3 gaming platform recovers $97 million user funds and prepares for compensatory refund.
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Avalanche claims that Web3 Gaming Sucks, but there’s more to it
26.3.2024
Avalanche had a bold tagline when it appeared at the Game Developers Conference. It specifically said, Web3 Gaming Sucks. While it sounds terrible to have such a tagline at the top of the counter, the move surprisingly did well for Ava Labs. It managed to catch the attention of those who were...
OKX and Immutable launch GameFi Launchpad to transform Web3 Gaming
22.3.2024
OKX, a major Web3 technology firm, and Immutable, the leading Web3 gaming platform, announced a new partnership that includes a GameFi NFT launchpad and Immutable’s gaming-focused zkEVM chain in OKX Marketplace and OKX Wallet. This alliance will change how over 50 million gamers use NFTs...
Yield Guild Games Launches Token on Ronin Network Reaching More Gamers
22.3.2024
Decentralized gaming startup Yield Guild Games (YGG) has announced it has launched the YGG token on the Ronin network, expanding to the Web3 gaming community.
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Blockchain Games Firm Sequence, Google Cloud Partner to Bring Web3 Gaming to Cloud
20.3.2024
Sequence aims to remove the complexity of Web3 technology by offering its full-stack gaming solution to Google Cloud customers.
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Immutable, King River Capital, Polygon Labs Set Up $100M Web3 Gaming Fund
19.3.2024
Immutable and Polygon Labs will identify investment opportunities while King River will manage the investment process and deploy the capital across game studios and web3 infrastructure firms
Web3 gaming on rise: Funding, partnerships, and emerging trends
12.3.2024
Web3 gaming has gained momentum, with several titles entering the market. The fundamental distinction between traditional and Web3 gaming is that of its backend operations. Traditional gaming utilizes centralized infrastructure to enhance the user experience. On the other hand, the Web3 gaming...
‘Web3 Gaming Offers a Pathway to a More Inclusive and Vibrant Gaming Ecosystem’ — Weiwei Geng
12.3.2024
While the traditional gaming industry’s free-to-play model is largely credited for its past and projected success, on the downside this model only prioritizes building games that “optimize for addiction and profit maximisation” rather than “innovative entertainment,”...
Entry of Tradfi Institutions Can Help Reshape User Perceptions Towards Crypto — Sami Start
7.3.2024
The recent adoption of cryptocurrency by traditional financial (tradfi) institutions is likely to reshape user perceptions of this asset class and may even foster broader acceptance of blockchain technology, Sami Start, co-founder and CEO of the crypto trading platform Transak, has argued. Start...
David Johansson, CEO of BLOCKLORDS, on Blockchain Gaming, Web3 Gaming Airdrops, and User Acquisition for Web3 Games | Ep. 310
20.2.2024
BLOCKLORDS CEO David Johansson discusses the indestructible link between crypto and gaming; how BLOCKLORDS came to where it is today, despite the obstacle; how the team utilized the circumstances in the space and the knowledge they gained to set up a platform to help others launch Web3 games;...