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A weekly newsletter containing a curated list of the week’s most notable Web 3 gaming reports, podcasts, events, quotes and threads for you to catch up on during the weekend 👇
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Frontier Gaming Watch - Limit Break, Metaverse’s 1st Use Case & Microsoft’s $68.7b deal
- To celebrate the one year anniversary of @lootproject I’ll be talking with @lordOfAFew of @LootRealms about @StarkWareLtd and ZK gaming x.com/i/spaces/1dRKZ…
- We'll be talking with @Fitchinverse and the @ParallelNFT team next week about their TCG (trading card game) and broader game universe being created. Join us live! x.com/i/spaces/1zqKV…
- We have two @realthirdweb spaces this week! Tomorrow we’re hosting @UndeadBlocks as we talk about their next steps. Feel free to join us
x.com/i/spaces/1kvKp… - We have a big announcement tomorrow we will make on Twitter spaces for a new direction at Crypto Raiders. Join @SpeculatorArt and @cryptotyrael tomorrow at 2 PM EST to discuss!
x.com/i/spaces/1YqJD… - Excited for this space today! There are just so many great people to speak to in web3. @PlayEFAS has a really cool game!
x.com/i/spaces/1OyKA… The Crypto Gaming Podcast - Interview with co-founders of Legends of Venari
Into the Metaverse #16 - Nvidia’s CEO is bullish on the metaverse more than ever
- Just finished METAVERSE by @ballmatthew and it's a seminal work on Web2, The Metaverse and the future.
He also sort of made the case against us being in a simulation given the technical concurrency requirements to do so but that's for another day
A few of my favorite parts
- FREE-TO-OWN
The new web3 model that will change game monetization forever.
Breaking down @limitbreak 's and @DigiDaigaku 200M raise:
- after analyzing 60+ games and services, we found 200 000 bots. on average, every web3 game has 40% bots.
link to the database with the results at the end of a thread
- A thesis on why I created @realthirdweb and what I’m betting on with web3 and web2 gaming
- Alpha Alert
An upcoming Web3 game built for PC, on an Avalanche sub-net, with a playable alpha and a public launch in mid October.
Project: @PulsarGame
Analyst: @sparkcsays
Overview: A starcraft-like RTS MMO, with persistent progression and a player-driven economy.
- Let's talk about the buzzword of the day: "Free-to-own"
In the context of @gabrielleydon and @DigiDaigaku this is the idea of an NFT collection that's free to mint and generates future NFTs by owning the 'Genesis' NFT over time. This needs context within NFTs & gaming.
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- Most Web3 gaming projects only leverage the blockchain for NFTs and tokens while running their games on trust-required centralized servers. (Web2 tech + NFTs = Web2.5 and not Web3)
Paima Studios is tackling the problem of decentralized blockchain gaming.
1/ - SPELLS
- decentralized game anyone can build on
- the first ERC-5050 Interactive NFT. 𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚝() spells on other NFTs and wallets
- @lootproject expansion
- 100% of proceeds to dao
- 3,333 seed spells, then @nounsdao-style Eternal Mint w/ VRGDA
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spells.quest - When the galleon arrives, ETERNUM begins.
- Web3 gaming studios listen up. Many of you are trying to market better to establish a strong foundation of players. If you are failing to build truly engaged communities and are plagued with transient value extractors, here’s why. It all begins with…"Why"./1
A mix of news, updates and action items for notable Web3 games and projects
- Thrilled to announce that Phi has launched on Polygon Mumbai Testnet!
Phi is the Web3 world created directly from @ensdomains & wallet activities, enabling the easy visualization of on-chain identities.
philand.xyz
Here's what you should know regarding Phi demo
philand.xyzPhi - Visualize your On-chain Identity
Build your web3 cities from your wallet activities
Introduction to Ethernia, an Epic Free to Earn, Tower Defense Game
- Our H1 2022 Report highlights how the team has been working hard on creating a product market fit in line with #web3 gaming through our community, partnerships, and strategic investments.
Details in
- More platform updates and real-life games with Immortal Game
Very, very thrilled to share more with you this September 
- The story continues later this Q4.
- 1/ We are LIVE with the IMX Staking Rewards product and we could not be more bullish. A brand new dashboard, sustainable rewards, and the IMX growth flywheel
youtu.be/gaRUTNSFn_c - Mortals, did you know: The Daily Play & Earn Dashboard makes it easy to track your victories, keep score, see if your next win will earn you double Fragments, and claim $GODS in one go?
Learn more D P&E facts: playgu.co/dpe/info
Eden Brawl - Gameplay Footage & Sparkadia Origin NFT Collection
Games, protocols & projects that are new, interesting and under the radar
- A large win in 1 web3 game is a large win in web3 gaming
All it takes is 1 game to bring confidence in the genre and the whole space will benefit but we also need to weed out & call out the trash - we really only need 1 crypto game to work and show the rest the way
once we know the path the consensus will rapidly converge and you get the virtuous flywheel of vcs funding and an order of magnitude more games building
same thing happened with defi - “compound moment” - Paid mints = fundraising from retail
Free mints = fundraising from VCs or relying on royalties (getting tough as royalties are in a race to 0).
Both can co-exist peacefully, no need to declare any of them dead prematurely. - Free mints/NFTs are not a fad, they’re actually executing exactly what the web3 ethos is.
Web3 is about community
Free NFTs should be given to largest & most active supporters of the project.
1/3 - just as free to play is the monetization of time
"free to own" is the monetization of incentives
applying the free mint nft meta to games will supercharge distribution, radically reducing UA costs and increasing a game's virality
venturebeat.com/games/gabe-ley… - There are no right or wrong "models" in gaming or web3. F2O, F2P, P2E, PlayFi, etc etc.
They're all different for different designs, games, economies etc.
Anytime you see someone turning a model into a religion or tribe be cautious.
Models are just tools for creation.
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