Blockchain Gaming World

Jon Jordan talks to Skybound's Dan Murray and The Sandbox's Sebastian Borget about the companies' partnership which will see The Walking Dead hosting experiences within The Sandbox blockchain metaverse, as well as allowing players to own and trade The Walking Dead characters and items as NFTs. The first NFT sales starts Thursday 26 August at 1pm UTC. Find out more at The Sandbox's Medium . 

Jon Jordan talks to Guild of Guardians game director Derek Lau about the mobile RPG, which is currently in development at Immutable and going through various NFT pre-sales, as it prepares for a Q2 2022 alpha launch. Check out more detail at https://www.guildofguardians.com/

Jon Jordan talks to Horizon Blockchain Games co-founder and chief storyteller Michael Sanders about Skyweaver , its F2P TCG, which will mint aesthetic collectibles NFTs as a reward for in-game success, with trading happening on a token-style DEX, and Sequence , its suite of blockchain game tools. NB Horizon is hiring

Jon Jordan talks to Chief about how he got into blockchain gaming with Axie Infinity , how he's promoting Axie as an esports with his team Axiegg , and the launch of physical/digital merc outfit E1337 . 

Jon Jordan talks to Michael Wagner about Star Atlas , the space exploration and combat game currently in development on the Solana blockchain. 

Jon Jordan talks to Animoca Brands' chairman Yat Siu about its $88,888,888 "meme VC raise" and its plans to aggressive deploy this new capital to take blockchain gaming truly mass market for the first time in 2021. 

Jon Jordan talks to Immutable co-founder Robbie Ferguson about how he got into crypto, why Immutable decided to built Immutable X, its own L2 scaling solution for Ethereum, and why he thinks Immutable X will take Gods Unchained to 500,000 players in 2021.  Find out more at https://market.x.immutable.com/

Jon Jordan talks to CEO Michael Weiksner about Pocketful of Quarter's vision to create a universal currency that will work in all games. More at https://pocketfulofquarters.com/

Jon Jordan talks to Kieran and Aaron Warwick about ILLUVIUM , their new blockchain game, which mixes elements of Pokemon and Teamfight Tactics with DeFi and DAOs. Find out more details at https://www.illuvium.io/

Jon Jordan talks to Gabby Dizon about Yield Guild , a guild of gamers who play blockchain games to earn real-world and crypto value, which is evolving into a key element of the sector as it allows crypto-rich individuals to pool their NFTs, hence allowing gamers to borrow those NFTs to earn yield, as well as enabling these gamers to eventually become owners - owning a stake in the organisation thr...

Jon Jordan talks to Salad CEO Bob Miles about his vision to his vision to building a community of gamers who convert their idle PC resources into rewards. Check it out at https://www.salad.io/

This podcast is sponsored by DeFi-NFT mash-up Aavegotchi --- Jon Jordan talks to Craig Russo from Polyient Games about the rise of game NFTs as an investment asset, building out a platform to kickstart this movement, and why Polyient acquired the banking infrastructure of forthcoming game Mirandus for $800,000; the highest price yet paid for an NFT .

Jon Jordan talks to Animoca Brands' CEO Robby Young about the rise of F1 Delta Time in 2020 - which generated +$2 million in NFT sales, including the most expensive NFT to-date - and well as the failure of the wider games industry to embrace blockchain.

Jon Jordan talks to Andrew Steinwold , the creator of the Zima Red podcast , about how our views of NFTs  - games, art, etc - have changed during 2020.

Jon Jordan talks with Axie Infinity Growth Lead Jeff 'Jiho' Zirlin about the incredible growth the game experienced in 2020 and its plans for 2021. 

Jon Jordan talks to MetaKovan , the owner of F1 Delta Time’s 1-1-1 car NFT , which was purchased for 415.9 ETH (c.$111,111.11) in May 2019 - still one of the most expensive NFTs ever sold - and the subject of much speculation ever since. We also talk to Yat Siu , chairman of the game’s developer Animoca Brands, and Alex Atallah , CTO of OpenSea, the marketplace on which the auction was run, about...

Jon Jordan talks to Splinterlands' CEO Jesse ' Aggroed ' Reich about the planned Land expansion, which will bring land-based mining, crafting and strategy to the card battler in 2021. The first land sale kicks off on 7 November . Read more about it on Medium , and use my affiliate code to support the podcast https://splinterlands.com?ref=semperaugustx

Jon Jordan talks to Spielworks MD Adrian Krion about his vision to making blockchain gaming mass market via Wombat , the 'one-stop' EOS wallet, which has recently expanded to the Womplay rewards platform , which supports both blockchain and non-blockchain games. 

Jon Jordan talks to Dapper Labs' CEO Roham Gharegozlou and VP Caty Tedman about why the company decided to create Flow , its own high performance blockchain for games and dapps, and why its first release is collectibles dapp NBA Top Shot . 

After the longest wait, Blankos Block Party is finally launching its Founder sale, which will unlock the first open beta during October. Jon Jordan talks to company co-founder Rudy Koch about how he got into blockchain and what the vision is for blockchain games in general and Blankos in particular. You can reserve your Blankos account at https://blankos.com/register

Jon Jordan talks to Sorare CEO Nicolas Julia about its eponymous (and fast-growing) blockchain fantasy football game, which is part of the Ubisoft incubation program and also recently raised $4 million. Find out more at https://sorare.com/

Jon Jordan talks to CipSoft MD Stephan Vogler about its PC RPG LiteBringer , which is now live on the Litecoin mainnet. Check it out at https://www.litebringer.com/

Jon Jordan and Gabby Dizon talk about blockchain games in the era of high gas prices, yield farming and DeFi pumps; covering our growing interest in crypto art, sharding high value Axie Infinity NFTs on Niftex , and Aavegtochi - the first of what we think will be a fascinating mashup between DeFi value and gaming community.

Jon Jordan talks to Nod Games ' Han Yoo about its new 4X strategy game League of Kingdoms , which includes NFT Land ownership and tokenization of in-game resources. The game is also now available on Apple App Store and Google Play Store . 

Jon Jordan talks to Axie Infinity co-founder Jeff 'Jihoz' Zirlin about what it felt like to be on the inside track of a crypto token pump as the game's SLP token spiked 100-fold; and what he hopes the longterm implications of the experience will be for a project that has ambitious plans to become the leading blockchain MMOG .