Blockchain Gaming World

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 15th November 2024, including: [0:31] It's been a year since Pixels went live on Ronin - one of 2024's success stories. [2:10] Why so many games have moved from Polygon. [3:10] Reasons to study Pixels' success. [4:27] Pirate Nation has launched its Season 3 rewards program. [12:16] Off The Grid has lau...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 8th November 2024, including: [7:12] Delabs has announced it will be launching Ragnarok and Boxing Star on Telegram in 2025. [14:40] Nine Chronicles M has been out for almost a year and has seen good growth. [21:30] Hunters On-Chain is giving away $1M of BOOM via its Season 2 through Game7. [26:51] Imm...

Jon Jordan talks to Gunzilla Games' director of web3 Theodore Arganat and Ava Labs head of gaming marketing Andrew 'Coop' Cooper about the launch of Off The Grid, the first blockchain-enable console game. [4:49] Early reaction to Off The Grid's launch. [6:19] It's been interesting you haven't focused much on the crypto aspects of the game... [6:43] "For us, it's about using the best technologies t...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 1st November 2024, including: [0:35] Pudgy Party mobile social game is announced for 2025. [4:03] Blankos NFTs are now live for trading on Polkadot via the Mythical Market. [6:35] Blankos as an example of how blockchain assets can encourage project longevity. [10:16] Mythical Games is also launching va...

In episode 184, Jon Jordan talks to TonTon Games' CEO Daniil Shcherbakov about the opportunity Telegram creates for successfully launching blockchain games. [2:40] Daniil's career to-date as an startup entrepreneur. [5:42] The opportunity for Telegram gaming is similar to that arising from app stores in 2008. [8:15] How can Telegram games expand beyond the current simple clicker experiences? [11:0...

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 25th October 2024, including: [0:35] Ubisoft's Champions Tactics is now live, including via the Ultra platform. [2:04] The Big Blockchain Game Report for Q3 2024 went live this week - "another difficult quarter"! [3:52] Most big game tokens are down in price during 2024 but BEAM, PRIME and SUPER are up...

⁠Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 18th October 2024 including: Off The Grid has gone into early access and gotten everyone talking about it. [0:30] There's been 6 million wallets created on its Gunz testnet. [3:10] Twitch stats are down at lot from weekend peak of 160,000 viewers/hour. [...

Check out Jon's daily email at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In episode 183, Jon Jordan talks to Sky Mavis co-founder Jeff 'Jihoz' Zirlin about the maturing of Ronin from the blockchain for Axie Infinity to a gaming ecosystem for dozens of web3 games. [3:09] What is Axie Pals? [5:58] The Axie treasury is generating $300,000/month. [9:52] What is the future for Axie as a brand? [11:24] Making Axie...

⁠Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 11th October 2024 including: Gunzilla has released Off The Grid, the first blockchain game on consoles for PC and PS5 [1:08]; Off The Grid is the only triple-A blockchain game, at least in terms of its $100 million budget [2:09], Good for the industry to...

In Blockchain Gaming World episode 182, Jon Jordan talks to Bazooka Tango's Bo Daly about deck-building turn-based tactics game Shardbound, which is now live in open beta on Steam and Epic Games Store. Find out more at https://www.shardbound.com/

⁠Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 4th October 2024 including: Fat/Thin Protocol thesis as relating to Ethereum/ETH, Ronin/RON and TON. Shardbound is going live via Steam and Epic Games Store on 9th October. Sky Mavis is stopping free gas for Ronin transactions. Gunzilla's Off The Grid ba...

Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jon's daily email at GamesTX⁠⁠⁠⁠ In episode 181, Jon Jordan talks to Proof of Play CEO Amitt Mahajan about its fully onchain game Pirate Nation , which has seen its audience grow 100-fold over the past 12 months as it's rolled out new content on a weekly basis, as well as launching its PIRATE token.

⁠Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 27th September 2024 including: Line is getting blockchain integration. Ragnarok: Monster World goes live on 1st October. Why developers should build live. How to fix The Sandbox. Axie Pals will get genAI. TreasureDAO ditches Arbitrum for ZKsync.

⁠Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 20th September 2024 including: The return of Flappy Bird New games for Ronin Are there too many blockchain games? Ex-Zynga team announce blockchain poker game

Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jon's daily email at GamesTX⁠⁠⁠⁠ In episode 180, ⁠⁠Jon Jordan⁠⁠ talks to Foonie Magus CEO Frank Cheng about Apeiron , its hybrid roguelite dungeon crawler with deck elements - out now on PC and coming to mobile in late 2024 - plus a god metagame due in 2025.

⁠Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 13th September 2024 including: CCP's announcement of blockchain-enabled EVE Frontier Dookey Dash: Unclogged is live 1 million downloads for Guild of Guardians Axie Infinity: Origins is 2 Gameloft is making a Claynosaurz mobile game. Grapes has been bought out

Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠Jon's daily email at GamesTX⁠⁠⁠ In episode 179, ⁠Jon Jordan⁠ talks to Cartridge CEO Tarrence van As about the advantages of building fully onchain games using its Starknet-based development tools.

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 6th September 2024.

Check out ⁠⁠⁠Jon's daily email at GamesTX⁠⁠ In episode 178, Jon Jordan talks to Stone Blade Entertainment CEO Justin Gary about his career making deck builders and TCGs and why he's adding blockchain into recent PC release SolForge Fusion .

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 30th August 2024.

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 23rd August 2024.

Check out ⁠⁠Jon's daily email at GamesTX⁠ In episode 177, Jon Jordan talks to MetaKing Studios' CEO David Johansson about the launch of fully onchain companion game Blocklords Dynasty, as well as the long term plans for PC strategy game Blocklords, including the launch of the battle mode, NFT permadeath and family lineage. The thinking behind fully onchain game Blocklords Dynasty. "On...

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 16th August 2024, including: Three months post-launch, is Guild of Guardians a success or failure? Scaling web3 games through the app stores is really hard. Autoverse Studios has raised $8 million for its drag racing game on Immutable. What's the percentage of bots in blockc...

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 8th August 2024, including: The most popular games for July: Pixels, Blocklords Dynasty, Catizen. Blockchain game sector investment trends, 2024 YTD is down 33% compared to 2023. Drake Star's Global Gaming Report Q2 2024 has some fundamental mistakes cf blockchain game funding....

Check out ⁠Jon's daily email at GamesTX⁠ In episode 176, Jon Jordan talks to Gamee chairman Bozena Rezab about why the casual gaming network is returning to Telegram with its WAT Protocol , 8 years on from when it was a launch partner for gaming on the messaging platform. Reasons include viral scaling of audience, its Star monetization network and native crypto support thanks to the integrated...