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Blockchain Gaming World

jon jordan

Everything you need to know about Blockchain Gaming.

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00:30:08

24 October 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/10/24

Jon's been asking What's Working For Web3 Gaming? at Zebu Live conference. [0:27] It's been London Blockchain Week and Jon has been at Zebu Live 2025.[2:06] He moderated a panel about What's Working In Web3 Gaming?[4:08] Panellists including Koko from Mighty Bear Games and Russell from Metacade.[5:58] We've moved from blockchain games to crypto games, with the emphasis on "crypto gainz".[7:00] ICP-based MMORPG Dragginz has gone into "hiberation".[12:30] YGG

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00:34:08

17 October 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/10/17

Discussing Mythical Games integrating Worldcoin, MapleStory going multichain, Legend of Ymir's launch plus Sorare and EVE Frontier changing chains. [0:18] Mythical Games is about to close a new funding round, including from Worldcoin.[1:37] The reason we know this is happening is from a press release from DAT outfit Eightco.[4:44] Eightco has raised $270 million to buy Worldcoin tokens, also investing in Mythical Games.[7:40] MapleStory Universe is going multichain thanks to Chainlink

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00:37:06

3 October 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/10/03

Talking SANDchain, Pudgy Party hits 1 million installs, KGeN raises $13.5M and Proof of Play. [0:25] The big announcement is SANDchain; a Patreon-type rewards platform for creators.[1:25] It's more to do with providing extra utility for SAND token than for The Sandbox platform itself.[5:10] Verified creators can use SANDchain to take a loan to invest in their business.[7:01] Some creators will also be able to launch their own memecoins.[8:05] It feels like a smorgasbord of current blockchain

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00:49:08

19 September 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/09/26

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[1:00] Axie Infinity: Atia's Legacy has launched its first 7-day playtest.[2:10] It's an MMOG that in part builds on the Axie Infinity: Homeland farming/trading game.[3:33] Jon thought the initial plans laid out for the game were a little sketchy.[8:16] Comparing the iterative approach of Pixels to whether Atia's Legacy needs a stronger direction.[10:12] Atia's Legacy probably won't be properly released until

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00:38:06

19 September 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/09/19

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:44] This week, we asked our Mavens group about the rise of sustainable degen games.[2:00] Originally, this type of game was more about crypto than blockchain.[3:25] YGG is now calling this genre "casual degen" games.[4:40] These experiences start with a thin layer of gaming and a lot of high risk-high reward features.[7:30] You can often get 1,000 players into these games but how do you keep them [10:05] A lot of

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00:31:16

12 September 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/09/12

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:22] Blockchain gaming is quiet. It's having a 'back to school' moment.[1:05] There's a wider focus on general crypto with ETFs, treasury companies etc. Not gaming.[3:51] Web2 game Wildcard and its Thousand web3 ecosystem is gearing up for its October launch.[5:10] Wildcard has just surpassed 75,000 wishlists on Steam. [9:04] Details about ownership of in-game character cards has been released, including rev

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00:42:18

5 September 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/09/05

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[1:18] Looking at the most popular blockchain games, we can start to see some trends for 2025. [1:42] Axie Infinity and Aliens Worlds have been very stable throughout 2025.[4:17] Games such as Pixels and Nine Chronicles have decline sharply as they rethink their vision.[6:00] MapleStory Universe is the big growth story of the year so far - c. 70,000 DAUWs.[8:41] Craft World has launched its first mainnet collab with

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00:35:08

29 August 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/08/29

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:38] What's going on at The Sandbox? Co-founders shifted? Job cuts? Memecoins?[0:52] Animoca's Robby Yung will be the new CEO as Animoca exerts more control over the project.[1:30] To a degree, the news is only "big" because its The Sandbox, which everyone knows.[3:25] Animoca is annoyed because it wanted to announce the restructure and new vision in the [4:10] Things have been going very slowly at The

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00:36:20

22 August 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/08/22

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:35] Proof of Play is shutting down fully onchain game Pirate Nation.[3:08] As well as combat, it had a deep crafting system but never attracted enough players. [4:00] Its play-to-airdrop seasons artificially boosted audience but not revenues. [6:06] The main reason it shut was it cost $150,000 a month to run the underlying blockchains.[7:45] The PVE mode from the game is now available to play on the Abstract blockchain. [8:40]

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00:25:43

15 August 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World ·

2025/08/15

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:52] Jon's been talking to MMOG veteran John Smedley about new FPS Reaper Actual.[2:30] What's interesting about the project is how perceptions about web3 have shaped its vision.[4:31] Steam doesn't allow blockchain and some of the Steam community hates blockchain. [4:51] So the web3 version of Reaper Actual will only be available via its own website.[5:45] Splitting the game into web2 and web3 versions isn't

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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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