Blockchain Gaming World

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...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan ponder the week's news. [1:05] Planet Mojo has announced WWA Season 1, in which humans and agents play, stake and win. [4:13] Humans play using $MOJO and earn World Points and AgentXP, which is staked on the AIs. [7:43] A key question is will it be fun to watch AI agents playing poker? [9:30] Mighty Bear Games is minting its AlphaGOAT AI a...

Jon Jordan talks to Mythical Games' CEO John Linden about the success of NFL Rivals, the forthcoming launch of FIFA Rivals and Pudgy Party, and how he expects to hit 100 million wallets in the next 18 months. [4:26] 65% of Mythical's revenue is now generated from NFT trading in NFL Rivals, up from 20%. [5:12] We have an enormous plan for NFL Rivals in 2025 with PVP mode, more social intera...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan ponder the week's news. [0:37] Faraway Games reveals its AI agent platform Rift, and airdrops the RIFT token. [3:14] This follows on from the launch of the J3FF AI agent and token in late 2024. [7:34] The Rift platform is interesting as a way of adding functionality to AI chat agents. [10:21] There's also the potential for these agents...

Jon Jordan talks to Animoca Brands' chairman Yat Siu about the rise of memecoins, the value of Telegram and TON as a distribution platform, and how AI agents could shake everything up. [3:56] What's the state of memecoins in 2025? [6:28] "We are narrative, story-telling people - money, democracy, politics are all stories." [8:32] "The part that makes me a bit negative about...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan ponder the week's news. [0:52] How Jon came up with the Top 50 Blockchain Game Companies of 2025 list. [8:28] Proof of Play was #1 - Jon explains why. [18:04] Soccerverse now has over 1,000 managers and is about to hit Game Day 3. [21:56] TON is now the only blockchain that can connect to Telegram mini-games. [26:08] LINE NEXT has launched...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan chew through the week's news. [0:23] Sky Mavis has announced a new $10 million grants program for developers on Ronin. [3:22] Is the ease of onboarding users to web3 games still a big issue? [7:08] Mobile basketball game Rumble Kong League is migrating to Ronin. [9:50] What will be most interesting about Ronin going permissionless is new n...

In episode 188, Jon Jordan talks to The Sandbox's Sebastien Borget about what happened in 2024 and what's planned for 2025. [2:49] "The metaverse is far from dead". The Sandbox Alpha 4 had over 580,000 players. [4:25] No matter the market, people see that The Sandbox is building and launching." [5:35] "We will have four seasons in 2025. Alpha 5 is already in production." [7:20] A criticism of seas...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan chew through the week's news. [0:57] In 2024, Limit Break released its ERC721C standard for enforcing NFT creator royalties. [4:55] This level of centralization wasn't controversial with NFTs because the issue was existential. [5:44] Feature include the ability to set maximum and minimum prices for NFTs. [6:23] ERC20 tokens are different to NF...

Jon Jordan talks to Laguna Labs' CEO Aron Beierschmitt about leaving behind debut game  Crypto Unicorns  and moving to new project  Neo Olympus , which is a fully onchain game using the MUD engine and running on the B3 blockchain, with assets on Ethereum and Base. [2:45] What happened to Crypto Unicorns? [4:02] 2024 was a rough year. We went from +90 people to 10. But the DAO still exists. [5:27]...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan discuss all the news from 2024. [2:16] The success of Pixels was an ongoing trend in 2024; but it wasn't always about DAUWs. [2:35] Heroes of Mavia was the first big game and token launch of 2024 but it didn't scale. [4:10] In 2024, we saw a lot of blockchain games launching through app stores but no big hits. [6:10] Browser vs app stores and...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan discuss the news for the week ending 20th December 2024. [0:31] Pudgy Penguins launches its PENGU token, with a strong community airdrop. [3:22] The launch was very generous with Pudgy NFT holders getting $85,000 of PENGU. [5:34] Surprisingly given the Abstract blockchain is launching, there wasn't a claim+stake option. [11:00] Xterio has anno...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan discuss the news for the week ending 13th December 2024. [0:21] Ronin-based Apeiron is now live via app stores in southeast Asia. [0:50] But what's gone live is the dungeon battler gameplay. The god game meta is still in dev. [4:08] Ubisoft's Captain Laserhawk is going live on 18th December. [5:12] Jon is more excited about it than previous Ub...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 6th December 2024, including: [0:32] EVE Frontier enters closed alpha on 10th December. [2:51] EVE Frontier is the attempt to build an EVE-style game in a composable blockchain sandbox. [5:55] How will a community grow up in EVE Frontier? [8:19] What does the original EVE Online community think about E...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 22nd November 2024, including: [2:05] Limit Break is rolling out its protocol to protect NFT creators royalties to all EVM chains. [3:45] Adding features such as minimum/maximum NFT prices may be controversial. [8:00] But you can also see how this might be good for some assets. [10:09] India-based guil...