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Blockchain Gaming World

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Everything you need to know about Blockchain Gaming.

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00:39:34

201 | Why John Smedley's making a blockchain game

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/08/13

In the latest episode of the Blockchain Gaming World podcast, editor-in-chief Jon Jordan talks to MMOG legend John Smedley about his new studio Distinct Possibility and its forthcoming persistent extraction shooter Reaper Actual, which will be released on Steam and Epic Games Store as a pure web2 game, with the web3 version only available via its own website.[2:33] Reaper Actual is a mix between a MMO and a FPS: an "open world persistent shooter".[4:18] It's like Escape from Tarkov in

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00:26:02

1 August 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/08/01

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:50] Craft World launched on Ronin. One day late. [2:43] It also launched its DynoCoin, which is designed to be a purely transactional token.[4:53] DynoCoin was a fair launch, 100% for community. No allocation for team, investors or KOLs.[6:42] If you want to cash out from Craft World, you need to buy a $8 Pro Account. This stops bots.[12:48] Shrapnel has ditched Avalanche and is moving to GalaChain. [16:37] The project has had

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00:32:39

200 | Craft World is live on Ronin. What's next?

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/07/30

Jon Jordan talks to Voya Games' CEO Oliver Loeffler about the launch of idle resource game Craft World on Ronin and what's coming next?[3:20] Craft World isn't trying to chase hype. It's a project with a long term vision.[4:10] We have a long runaway. Yoya Games is very careful with its money.[4:55] Right now, we're not sure if we have product-market-fit so we're still experimenting.[5:53] Voya is still a small team -- 11 people, mainly in Germany. [6:18] AI provides a real

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00:30:23

25 July 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/07/25

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[1:20] Delabs Games has announced its total funding is now $17.2 million.[2:58] Its new funding was a $4.7 million Series A round, prior to the DELABS token launch. [6:40] It's a difficult time for games team to launch new tokens. All prices are down. [8:08] GOAT Gaming has launched Season 4 with new idle game Underground Pepe. [13:58] Thinking about blockchain gaming as either a big game or the attention economy. [15:48]

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00:38:13

18 July 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/07/18

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:20] Saga and Chrono Labs have launched AI agent platform KEX.[1:38] Delabs Games has announced it's using new genAI gamemaking platform Verse 8.[4:00] It's interesting to see the second wave of AI agents - all around doing onchain transactions.[5:40] Delabs has moved from PC games to midcore games on LINE and now to AI-generated games.[7:27] Verse 8 is developed by Planetarium and its CEO has become co-CEO at

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00:25:31

11 July 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/07/11

Jon Jordan and new AI co-host Rachel talk through the week's news including:[0:22] The GUN token is expanding from Avalanche to Solana.[2:47] They've said this is to specifically attract a larger US audience. [4:00] Solana is also popular for degen and memecoin trading.[7:34] AI hypercasual web3 game-making engine Remix raised $5 million.[11:27] Voya Games' Project Voyager is over. The DynoCoins will be distributed in next 2 weeks.[14:58] Sky Mavis has launched the MVP for its reputation

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00:34:14

4 July 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/07/04

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:39] John Smedly has announced persistent open-world PC shooter Reaper Actual.[2:10] A weird aspect is it's using Tezos Etherlink EVM L2 blockchain.[5:04] One reason could be that they want blockchain to be in the background. [6:56] They've raised $30.5 million, which I don't think you'd get if this wasn't a blockchain game. [8:03] The game is a persistent loot shooter, which is a

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00:43:45

199 | How fully onchain Minecraft changes web3 gaming

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/07/02

Jon Jordan talks to MSquared CEO Rob Whitehead about the company's attempt to build a PlayFab for web3 gaming, which combined with the Somnia blockchain, will supercharge the sector with more onchain data that's more composable. [2:50] Rob Whitehead's current roles at Improbable and MSquared.[3:56] Rob's early career as a teenaged virtual arms dealer in Second Life.[4:59] How Improbable started work on what became MSquared during Covid lockdown.[8:15] How MSquared is different to

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00:42:03

27 June 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/06/27

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[01:10] Animoca Brands and Moca Foundation have announced Moca Chain. [01:35] Originally this was the Mocaverse NFT collection, which has become Moca Network. [06:25] They've tried to build a reputation and privacy-focused ID system. Not clear who's using it.[12:25] The issue is you have to build something 10x better and still people won't use it. [17:59] Nexon has launched a Credit Level

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00:52:04

20 June 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/06/20

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:10] Glad Midsommar - happy midsummer to all our Scandis listeners.[0:20] Playful Studios (Wildcard) has raised $6.5 million and hopes to get in another $2.5 million.[1:28] It previously raised $46 million, announced in June 2022.[5:35] Wildcard will be out on Steam early access soon and Thousands is in regular play testing. [8:31] MapleStory N continues to grow; its most expensive NFT sold for

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00:40:38

13 June 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/06/13

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[1:04] Much anticipated mobile game FIFA Rivals is now live via app stores.[2:00] The game includes NFTs on the Mythos chain but doesn't mention blockchain or NFTs at all.[2:45] The gameplay is deeper than Jon thought - you're tapping on players and drawing lines to pass.[5:32 ]The metagame is about getting the best 11 players you can, levelling and training them up.[6:32] Players can only be

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00:39:58

6 June 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/06/06

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:18] Why we've launched a new feature article called Good Blockchain Game News.[3:45] Blockchain is an inevitable gaming technology. That doesn't mean most web3 games succeed.[6:21] You can now nominate the best use of blockchain in a mobile game in the Mobile Game Awards.[6:59] Mobile football game FIFA Rivals goes live on Thursday 12th June via app stores.[8:33] Precursor NFL Rivals provides

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00:35:26

30 May 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/05/31

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:30] OpenSea's OS2 is now live for everyone with its new Voyages XP system.[1:08] This is part of the future SEA token launch, which will also include historical trading activity.[4:47] OpenSea now supports token swaps and NFT trading across 19 blockchains.[8:25] The SEA token will be a big event; "The event" according to OpenSea. [11:40] Oncade has raised $4 million from a16z CSX for its stablecoin

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00:54:14

23 May 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/05/23

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:28] Following Nyan Heroes, Blast Royale and Tatsumeeko, Ember Sword has shut down.[2:15] The background is a lot of web3 game devs raised their funding back in 2021-22.[4:12] $5 million isn't much money to make a good game, either web2 or web3. [5:07] And most teams raising money were inexperienced. They had never made a game before.[6:15] A team of 10 game devs probably costs around $1 million a

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00:57:40

16 May 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/05/16

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:20] Nexon has launched MapleStory N and its NXPC token on its Avalanche-based L1. [2:25] MapleStory is the OG IP for Nexon - a 2D side-scrolling MMORPG, now with blockchain. [5:00] The NXPC token seems to have launched well on various exchanges, up 30%.[6:14] However, the game is geo-locked for some countries including South Korea, US and UK.[8:45] Its free NFT on OpenSea was minted 1.7 million

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00:58:56

198 | Why Playful built Thousands (its web3 Twitch)...

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/05/14

Jon Jordan talks to Playful Studios' CEO Paul Bettner and lead game designer Brad Weir about the development of web2 card collectible action game Wildcard and its web3 streaming platform Thousands. [5:29] Why did "crypto-skeptic" Paul Bettner end up making a gaming ecosystem using blockchain?[6:24] The crucial technology focus for its web2 game Wildcard is streaming, not blockchain.[6:59] But blockchain is crucial for the wider ecosystem for players, content creators and community.[9:02] The USP of

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00:49:45

2 May 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/05/02

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:45] Pixels' new ecosystem-wide PIXEL staking feature is now live, supporting three games.[1:57] Pixels' daily activity has declined a lot, as has the PIXEL token price over the past year. [2:58] Pixels' vision now is to better target its rewards towards committed players.[4:30] Staking and the future vPIXEL token (June) use the Apptoken standard which gives devs more control.[7:03] You

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00:45:02

197 | How Apptokens will make Pixels sustainable and...

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/04/30

Jon Jordan talks to Pixels CEO Luke Barwikowski about the game’s forthcoming adoption of the new Apptokens standard, which as well as seeing the launch of the spend/stake-only vPIXEL token, will also herald a new staking model, which will use the token to boost marketing for Pixels and its partner games.[4:42] Games like Axie and Pixels have been massive successes. We need to make them sustainable.[5:25] Some of the issues for web3 games are just gaming issues. Web2 games are not doing well.[7:50]

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00:33:09

25 April 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/04/25

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:25] Immutable and Ubisoft have announced Might & Magic Fates.[1:05] Ubisoft have been making blockchain games since 2017/18.[2:35] Might & Magic feels like a reasonable IP to experiment with a web3 TCG.[3:08] But do we need another TCG? Another web3 TCG?[5:40] Web3 will be optional for players and won't give gameplay advantages.[7:55] Ready Makers Inc's lawsuit against Ready Maker (Gibraltar) has

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00:41:31

18 April 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/04/18

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[2:10] A year ago, Immutable launched The Main Quest. People have been collecting gems ever since.[3:45] However, it wasn't clear what the purpose or value of these gems was.[4:10] Main Quest has been renamed Perpetual Rewards. You can earn more gems by playing games. [5:05] Your wallet has to be verified by phone number and social login. [5:34] You buy one key per wallet for 500 gems that drops

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