Blockchain Gaming World

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 Thousan...

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 metagam...

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 foot...

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; "...

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 inexpe...

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 s...

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 bl...

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] Staki...

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 sustai...

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 pla...

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...

Jon Jordan talks to Ultra's new CEO Gus van Rijckevorsel about why the entrepreneur decided to invest in the company. He explains his ambition for Ultra, including competing with Steam and turning the platform into a unicorn that will shake up the entire games industry. [2:38] Gus van Rijckevorsel's previous career as a serial enterpreneur. [4:10] Why he created a French TV show to build h...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including: [0:30] The Sandbox's Alpha 5 Season is now live with Jurassic World being the lead brand. [3:27] Ultra has raised $12 million, with more expected later in 2025. [3:57] Jon's been talking to the new CEO Gus van Rijckevorsel about his vision for the company. [7:05] How this funding will be used...

Jon Jordan talks to Marco van den Heuvel, the co-founder and CEO of Beam about the formation of what was originally called Merit Circle as an Axie guild in 2021, then becoming a game investment DAO, and which rebranded as Beam in 2024 as it moved to focus on gaming infrastructure, something it will double down in 2025 with the launch of the Abu Dhabi-based Beam Ventures fund and accelerator. [2:15...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including: [0:25] Ultra has appointed a new COO, on top of the new CEO added in December 2024. [2:00] Ultra is a Steam-on-blockchain distro platform. It's suffering from the cold start problem. [3:00] Ashes of Mankind is its first party shooter, going into early access in Q2. [4:30] The role of the CEO in m...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including: [2:07] GDC 2025 was quiet and not just for web3 gaming. [4:06] Immutable's financials for the period FY22/23 were released. [5:13] It lost $50 million on revenue of $27 million. [6:20] This compared to a loss of $31 million on sales of $19 million in FY21/22. [8:35] It still has around $140 milli...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including: [0:34] Much anticipated game Wildcard dropped its whitepaper. [1:09] CEO Paul Bettner worked on Age of Empires, created Words With Friends. Very smart. [3:00] This was the first time we got insight about how its blockchain works and it's not the game. [4:08] The blockchain bit is Thousands, an in...

Jon Jordan talks to CCP Games’ CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson about why its forthcoming game  EVE Frontier is being built open source and fully decentralized. [0:57] How and why Hilmar got interested in blockchain, starting with storing spaceships on Bitcoin. [6:04] Back in 2017, the crypto community was like the early MMOG communities. [7:00] I got more interested after the 2018 crash and I went to...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including: [1:42] Parallel is the most successful web3 TGC partly through its esport prizes. Just awarded $100,000. [3:22] The second game in the universe is AI experiment Colony, but information is limited. [4:07] Sanctuary is their third game; an extraction shooter. A hard genre to pull-off. [7:20] WorldWide...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including: [2:54] Yuga Labs has been struggling since 2023 but is now focused on its Otherside metaverse. [4:03] It's testing Project Dragon, a FPS which reach 2,197 concurrent players - a new world record. [5:40] It uses Improbable's MSquared networking tech to handle this in a cost effective manner. [...

Jon Jordan talks to Improbable CEO Herman Narula about why the UK game tech company decided it had to build its own blockchain. Called Somnia, its testnet is now live. [2:32] The Improbable genesis story: from Cambridge Uni to building games technology. [3:39] Building economies for virtual worlds means you need a blockchain for ownership. [4:54] Improbable's first success was The Multiplayer...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan reflect on the week's news. [1:05] Ronin-based prediction market Forkast has gone live. Jon is very excited. [2:38] It's one of the first non-gaming apps on Ronin as the blockchain has gone permissionless. [5:33] How the prediction market works - users buy and sell percentage bids on events. [7:02] The CGX token has also gone live. It&...

Jon Jordan talks to NPC Labs' CEO Daryl Xu about its new gaming ecosystem B3, which was spun out of Coinbase's Base blockchain. [5:16] The original story for B3 as a founding team out of the Coinbase Base team. [6:15] Games wanted to launch on Base but it wasn't built for gaming. [7:03] There's a big lack in the game sector in terms of publishing services. [11:21] How does B3 help grow the blockch...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan reflect on the week's news. [1:15] The RON token has flipped the marketcap of the AXS token. [2:48] The Ronin blockchain has gone permissionless in terms of its zkEVM chain. [6:57] Sky Mavis has announced a $100,000 RON prize pool for NFT trading this month. [9:10] Sky Mavis is pushing all the growth levers forward for Ronin. [10:12] Overa...

Jon Jordan talks to TreasureDAO co-founder Karel Vuong about the "decentralized game console's" vision for 2025. [1:46] Karel's backstory in tech and VC investing, prior to Treasure. [4:37] Treasure was originally an offshoot of the Loot NFT ecosystem in September 2021. [6:25] Treasure's fair launch for the MAGIC token. No VCs, just community. [10:04] What's with the conc...