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27 February 2025 | Weekly news roundup

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. [7:05] Improbable has also launched a new blockchain called Somnia. [8:38] It claims to handle 1

Feb 28, • 56:30

193 | Why Improbable had to build Somnia

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 Guys, who worked on CoD, GTA, Fall Guys etc. [5:27] The biggest thing Improbable has learned is

Feb 26, • 36:40

20 February 2025 | Weekly news roundup

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's used for rewards and future governance. [8:30] This isn't gambling. It's skill-bas

Feb 21, • 24:40

193 | How B3 aligns ecosystem incentives

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 blockchain gaming audience? Better games and infrastructure. [12:44] Everything will eve

Feb 19, • 39:23

7 February 2025 | Weekly news roundup

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] Overall, daily activity on the Ronin is down to around 500,000 DAUWs from 2 million. [11:33] Blocklo

Feb 14, • 48:25

191 | TreasureDAO's vision for 2025

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 concept of being a "decentralized game console"?[14:05] Why Treasure's branding is focused aro

Feb 12, • 37:06

7 February 2025 | Weekly news roundup

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 agents, which can earn tokens.[13:44] Faraway has announced more about RIFT, including its RIFT Arena ba

Feb 7, • 56:12

190 | How Mythical Games hits 100 million wallets

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 interaction. [7:20] The game design challenge of not being able to reset NFT players at the start of each se

Feb 5, • 37:28

31 January 2025 | Weekly news roundup

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 to earn crypto i.e. acting as validators. [12:32] Youmio has revealed more details of its

Jan 31, • 45:28

189 | Yat Siu on memes, AI agents and TON

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 memes is they are being abused by snipers." [11:02] Is PENGU a pure memecoin? Can a mem

Jan 29, • 41:16

24 January 2025 | Weekly news roundup

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 its first mini games using the Kaia blockchain. [27:16] Jon found it complex to find t

Jan 24, • 54:57

17 January 2025 | Weekly news roundup

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 non-gaming apps. [11:55] Axie Infinity added $4 million to its treasury in 2024. [15:31]

Jan 17, • 53:27

188 | The Sandbox's vision for 2025

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 seasons is it means The Sandbox is stop-start. There's no flywheel. [10:20] "We are in alpha

Jan 15, • 37:19

10 January 2025 | Weekly news roundup

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 NFTs: will people accept such features for ERC20 tokens? [7:30] Another example is tokens t

Jan 10, • 41:41

187 | From Crypto Unicorns to Neo Olympus

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] "I accept all the blame for the failure. But I'm optimist about the path forward." [9:08] What w

Jan 8, • 41:02

186 | 2024 in review

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 PC gaming stores remains a key business decision. [8:44] A lot of meme-y game coins such

Dec 27, 2024 • 58:14

20 December 2024 | Weekly news roundup

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 announced its AI agent vision for 2025 including Befriend AI chat-to-airdrop. [15:32] Is it a p

Dec 20, 2024 • 41:24

13 December 2024 | Weekly news roundup

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 Ubi game Champions Tactics, which was hardcore. [7:18] Crypto Unicorns' dev Laguna Games anno

Dec 13, 2024 • 26:34

6 December 2024 | Weekly news roundup

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 EVE Frontier? [12:43] Pudgy Penguins announces its PENGU token, what's the background? [19:

Dec 6, 2024 • 36:32

22 November 2024 | Weekly news roundup

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 guild KGeN has raised $10 million taking total funding to $30 million. [14:23] YGG has announc

Nov 22, 2024 • 38:29

15 November 2024 | Weekly news roundup

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 launched a competition giving out $3,000 per day. [17:03] Fableborne has moved from Avalanc

Nov 15, 2024 • 37:51

8 November 2024 | Weekly news roundup

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] Immutable has integrated its Passport wallet with Telegram. [29:34] Off The Grid is now the m

Nov 9, 2024 • 43:26

185 | Off The Grid's excellent launch is just the start

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 to create the best UX." [10:40] The strategy behind the launch marketing campaign with streame

Nov 6, 2024 • 31:14

1 November 2024 | Weekly news roundup

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 various MYTH airdrops, including for Blankos holders [12:06] Immutable has received a Wells n

Nov 1, 2024 • 34:31

184 | TonTon Games on Telegram's web3 opportunity

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? [11:09] How TonTon's DRFT Party will leverage its forthcoming NFT collection. [13:27] We will

Oct 30, 2024 • 39:56

25 October 2024 | Weekly news roundup

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. [5:28] Also, most game tokens were down in their general crypto ranking, relative to other

Oct 25, 2024 • 28:42

18 October 2024 | Weekly news roundup

⁠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. [4:05] Should we view Off The Grid as triple-A console shooter or a gaming blockchain platfo

Oct 18, 2024 • 41:27

183 | How Ronin matures

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 NFTs dynamic has created a sink for AXS tokens. [13:26] How has the change been for Sky Mavis movi

Oct 16, 2024 • 41:05

11 October 2024 | Weekly news roundup

⁠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 see some of these big games finally being released [7:44]; But we should also be aware tha

Oct 11, 2024 • 38:47

182 | How Shardbound onboards gamers to web3

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/

Oct 10, 2024 • 31:13

4 October 2024 | Weekly news roundup

⁠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 battle royale shooter is now available for testing on Xbox. Number of TON games up 320% in Q3 20

Oct 5, 2024 • 39:42

181 | Taking onchain games to internet-scale

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.

Oct 2, 2024 • 41:41

27 September 2024 | Weekly news roundup

⁠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.

Sep 27, 2024 • 26:31

20 September 2024 | Weekly news roundup

⁠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

Sep 20, 2024 • 39:56

180 | Aperion's inspirations and aspirations

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.

Sep 18, 2024 • 36:10

13 September 2024 | Weekly news roundup

⁠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

Sep 13, 2024 • 29:19

179 | Building fully onchain games with Cartridge

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.

Sep 11, 2024 • 37:41

6 September 2024 | Weekly news roundup

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

Sep 6, 2024 • 36:34

178 | Why is SolForge Fusion using blockchain?

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.

Sep 4, 2024 • 35:30

30 August 2024 | Weekly news roundup

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

Aug 30, 2024 • 33:58

23 August 2024 | Weekly news roundup

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

Aug 23, 2024 • 33:11

177 | Promoting long-term play in Blocklords

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. "Onchain transactions are how people measure traction in this space." Dynasty came from adding u

Aug 21, 2024 • 33:29

16 August 2024 | Weekly news roundup

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 blockchain gaming? Fully onchain game Blocklords Dynasty lost 80% of its audience post-P2A token event.

Aug 16, 2024 • 27:11

8 August 2024 | Weekly news roundup

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. July's investment total of $38 million was the second lowest in 3.5 years. Crypto price crash

Aug 8, 2024 • 28:52

176 | Why Gamee is back building on Telegram

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 TON blockchain.

Aug 7, 2024 • 34:43

2 August 2024 | Weekly news roundup

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 2nd August 2024, including: Cosmic Bomber has launched, exclusively for Moca ID users at the moment. Manchester United has launched a fantasy soccer game on Tezos. New rewards campaigns from Earn Alliance, HyperPlay, Gamer7 and MetaCene. Magic Eden is now The Sandbox's official NFT marketplace and launchpad. Ronin has hit 2 million DAUWs, but is this actually significant? Do dev

Aug 3, 2024 • 25:59

175 | Goat Gaming's vision for Telegram

Check out Jon's daily email at GamesTX In episode 175, Jon Jordan talks to Mighty Bear Games' CEO Simon Davis about its competitive reward gaming ecosystem Goat Gaming, which is leveraging channels such as Telegram.

Jul 31, 2024 • 32:24

26 July 2024 | Weekly news roundup

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 26th July 2024, including: Our Game of the Week is Splinterlands' TD game SoulKeep. Animoca announces a $20 million strategic partnership with TON. Studio 369 announces idle companion game Metalcore Arena and vehicle NFT sale. Boomland announced how the Hunters On-Chain BOOM token airdrop will work. Why this NFT-token approach could drop the BOOM price in the short-term. We've

Jul 26, 2024 • 27:40

19 July 2024 | Weekly news roundup

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 19th July 2024, including: BCGbiz Mavens discussion on how to choose a blockchain -- grants, community, tech? Immutable was the fastest growing blockchain in terms of new titles in Q2 2024. Wemix changes its blockchain strategy to fewer, high quality games. Stardust has launched its Starbase rewards network. Why no-one should use the term "onboarding a billion web3 gamers". Do

Jul 19, 2024 • 29:05

12 July 2024 | Weekly news roundup

Jon Jordan⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 12th July 2024, including: Launch of Mocaverse's MOCA token Soccerverse raises $3 million from Square Enix Forgotten Runiverse is moving from Arbitrum to Ronin. Smilegate's MMORPG Nine Lords will be going live on Line's DOSI platform, plus Jon muses on how to combine the financial and psychological value of digital assets

Jul 12, 2024 • 29:26

174 | How ArenaX is bringing AI to blockchain games

Check out Jon's daily email at ⁠GamesTX.Substack.com⁠ In episode 174, ⁠Jon Jordan⁠ talks to ArenaX's Wei Xei about how the company is looking to apply its AI technology - reinforced machine learning - for blockchain games such as AI Arena, as well as onboarding people to the AI sector more generally.

Jul 10, 2024 • 38:54

5 July 2024 | Weekly news roundup

Jon Jordan⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 5th July 2024, including: Immutable has seen a 30% rise in daily active wallets during June up to 300,000 DAUWs. Hunters On-Chain and Guild of Guardians are the most popular games on Immutable zkEVM. Discussing 69% of Pixels' peak DAUWs being bots. Does it matter? Alien Worlds' genAI tool for UGC lore. Yat Siu is bullish on the rise of Telegram as a platform for web3 gaming.

Jul 5, 2024 • 27:57

28 June 2024 | Weekly news roundup

Jon Jordan⁠ and ⁠BlockchainGamer.biz editor⁠ Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 28th June 2024, including: Talking to Sky Mavis' Jeff Zirlin about whether web3 gaming is dead. Pixels' DAUWs are down a lot since Chapter 2 launched. Is Sky Mavis' support for Axie Infinity now flogging a dead horse? How do you reinvent an IP c.f. Rovio and Angry Birds? Lumiterra announced for Ronin, not Solana, (probably)! Talking to Pixels' CMO Heidi about building so

Jun 28, 2024 • 23:04

21 June 2024 | Weekly news roundup

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 21st June 2024, including: Rise of games on TON Are there now too many blockchains? L2s? L3s? What's happening with Heroes of Mavia? Boomland's 250 million BOOM token play-to-airdrop Immutable zkEVM data -- MAUWs vs DAUWs

Jun 21, 2024 • 30:18

173 | Building gaming L1s with Saga

Check out Jon's daily email at GamesTX.Substack.com In episode 173, Jon Jordan talks to Saga CEO Rebecca Liao about the blockchain's vision to be the "L1 for launching L1s", in particular its focus on games.

Jun 19, 2024 • 32:49

14 June 2024 | Weekly news roundup

Join Jon and Jenny from BlockchainGamer.biz as they round up the news from the week ending 14th June 2024, including: Is web3 gaming dead? Or just degen crypto gaming that's dead? Sustainable blockchain-based game economies Launch of PIRATE token Gamee's Telegram-based Wat Protocol

Jun 14, 2024 • 32:46

172 | How Pixels grows beyond 1 million DAUWs

Check out Jon's daily email at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In episode 172, Jon Jordan talks to Pixels' CEO Luke Barwikowski about the game's growth in 2024, and how the launch of its chapter 2 sets the scene for the game to continue its trajectory into 2025.

Jun 13, 2024 • 28:22

171 | Stardust's vision for one billion web3 gamers

Check out Jon's daily email on Substack In episode 171, Jon Jordan talks to Stardust CEO Canaan Linder about how he got into the industry 6 years ago, how Stardust is helping game developers build on the blockchain and scale (eventually) to one billion players. He says it's a question of when, not if.

Jun 5, 2024 • 38:47

170 | How Today is mixing AI, UGC and blockchain

Get Jon's daily GamesTX email via Substack. In episode 170, Jon Jordan talks to Mike O'Connor about Today The Game, which is mixing generative AI NPC creation with sim-style gameplay, resource trading and user generated content.

May 29, 2024 • 39:47

169 | How Helika is moving beyond web3 analytics

Check out Jon's daily email at Substack. In episode 169, Jon Jordan talks to Helika CEO Anton Umnov about how the company is moving from web3 analytics into 'doing everything except making web3 games'.

May 22, 2024 • 35:33

168 | Guild of Guardians: moving from launch to liveops

Check out Jon's daily email on Substack. In episode 168, Jon Jordan talks to Guild of Guardians' game director Chris Clay about the global launch of the mobile RPG through app stores, also discussing future plans as it moves into liveops.

May 21, 2024 • 34:18

168 | Guild of Guardians: from launch into liveops

Check out Jon's daily email at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In episode #168, Jon Jordan talks to game director Chris Clay about the launch of mobile RPG Guild of Guardians through the app stores; specifically how the launch went, the balance between web2 and web3 games, and how the game will evolve as it enters liveops.

May 16, 2024 • 35:45

167 | YGG and the future of guilds

Check out Jon's daily GamesTX email via Substack. In episode 167, Jon Jordan talks to YGG co-founder Gabby Dizon and LongHash VC Shi Khai Wei about the future of guilds in blockchain gaming.

May 8, 2024 • 44:12

166 | Why Midnight is building the Evergreen multiverse

Read Jon's daily GamesTX email at Substack. In episode 166, Jon Jordan talks to Steve Wade, the CEO of Midnight about Evergreen, something he describes a gaming multiverse, which will start releasing its first games in Q4 2024 and hopes to build out an interoperable platform for items and trading.

May 1, 2024 • 1:47

165 | Building The Sandbox

Check out Jon's daily email via Substack. In episode 165, Jon Jordan talks to Sebastien Borget and Nicola Sebastiani from The Sandbox to discuss what's going on with the UGC metaverse platform, which is due to transition from alpha to beta in 2024.

Apr 17, 2024 • 39:48

164 | How Shrapnel becomes a crafting UGC shooter

Check out Jon's daily email at GamesTX. In episode 164, Jon Jordan talks to Shrapnel's head of studio Don Norbury about feedback from the extraction shooter's early access, the future introduction of item crafting and UGC, whether web2 gamers are playing Shrapnel, game dev sentiment around blockchain, how Shrapnel can become a console game, and why the game's underlying Mercury tech platform is opening up to thirdparties.

Apr 10, 2024 • 43:44

163 | The rise of in-game NFT marketplaces

Check out Jon's daily email via Substack. In episode 163, Jon Jordan talks to Sequence's head of strategy and partnerships Sam Barberie about the shift from thirdparty NFT marketplace such as OpenSea to in-game marketplaces, and why this is vital for developers to make the most of the opportunities provided by player-owned economies.

Apr 4, 2024 • 43:49

162 | How Minecraft ban built Hytopia

Check out Jon's GamesTX Substack here. In episode 162, Jon Jordan talks to ArkDev about the history of what was originally called NFTWorlds and is now called Hytopia and its Hychain blockchain.

Mar 27, 2024 • 36:55

161 | HyperPlay and native Web3 game distribution

Check out Jon's daily Substack: GamesTX. In Episode 161, Jon Jordan talks to Jacobc.eth about HyperPlay, a game distribution store for web3 games, as well as an aggregator of other game stores, about competing with Steam, Apple and Google and how the disruptive power of web3 in this sector has been underestimated.

Mar 20, 2024 • 40:51

160 | Building mech shooter MetalCore

Check out Jon's daily Substack here. In episode 160, Jon Jordan talks to Studio 369's CTO Dan Nikolaides about the development process for F2P PC-based combined arms shooter MetalCore, which is currently in closed beta.

Mar 13, 2024 • 29:08

159 | Oh, the stories Yat Siu tells...

Check out Jon's daily Substack - GamesTX In episode 159, Jon Jordan talks to Animoca Brands' chairman Yat Siu in a wide-ranging talk covering everything from: John Locke and meme coins, to how Mocaverse helped the growth of Pixels, what is the Moca Foundation, why web3 is fundamentally better for gamers than web2, why Animoca Brands has invested in 450 web3 companies, why DAOs need to be messy, and why Yat thinks western gamer designers are "quite socialist"

Mar 6, 2024 • 48:46

158 | Gaming on Moonbeam

Check out Jon's daily Substack - GamesTX In episode 158, Jon Jordan talk to Moonbeam's head of ecosystem Sicco Naets about the opportunities arising from the Polkadot-based L1 and its cross-chain EVM-compatible design.

Feb 29, 2024 • 34:38

157 | Building the first web3 meta economy game

Check out Jon's daily Substack. In episode 157, Jon talks to Voya Games' Oli Loffler about his project Angry Dynomites Lab, which is currently playable on testnet as Craft World; something he describes as “the world’s first meta economy game”.

Feb 21, 2024 • 33:49

156 | Telling the tale of Nine Chronicles M

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In episode 156, Jon Jordan talks to JC Kim, the CEO of South Korean web3 developer Planetarium about the story behind its idle RPG Nine Chronicles M, which is now out for PC and mobile, with around 100,000 MAUs.

Feb 14, 2024 • 37:36

155 | Why Mythical Games is bullish on web3 gaming via app stores

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In episode 155, Jon Jordan talks to Mythical Games' CEO John Linden about its decision to build on Polkadot, the formation of the Mythos Foundation and why its games are all going to be distributed through Apple and Google's app stores.

Feb 7, 2024 • 39:04

154 | The ground-up rise of Pixels

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In Episode 154, Jon Jordan talks to Pixels CEO Luke Barwikoswki on the remarkable rise of the social RPG, which was triggered by its relaunch on Ronin in November 2023

Jan 31, 2024 • 34:08

153 | Autonomous worlds and godless games

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In episode 153, Jon Jordan talks to Playmint CEO David Amor about the rise of fully onchain blockchain games, including Downstream, its currently in-development title.

Jan 24, 2024 • 39:20

152 | How Kratos is building a global gaming community

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ Read the transcription at BlockchainGamer.biz In BCGW #152, Jon Jordan talks to the founder of Kratos Studios Manish Agarwal about how it's building out a global community of gamers. Starting in India, with the acquisition of IndiGG, but now in Indonesia, Brazil, Nigeria, Turkey etc, Kratos has over 1 million players, organized in 14,000 clans and has distributed >$1 million to players as they complete quests in both web

Jan 17, 2024 • 37:43

151 | Blockchain games in 2024

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ We kick off 2024 with a discussion between Jon and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny on our predictions for blockchain gaming in 2024. Subjects covered include: 2023 was a bad year for blockchain games  Is the biggest threat external forces or get-rich-quick mentality?  Remembering the Axie Infinity boom in late 2021 Will the hit games of 2024 be the ones we currently know Shrapnel, Off The Grid, Pixels Is UGC the fu

Jan 10, 2024 • 44:12

150 | 2023 review of blockchain gaming biz

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #150, Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan discuss the key news stories of 2023.

Dec 27, 2023 • 1:07:06

149 | Making web3 games secure and accessible with Sequence (Peter Kieltyka)

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #149, Jon Jordan talks to Horizon Blockchain Games CEO Peter Kieltyka about his love of open source coding, why Horizon developed TCG Skyweaver in order to build all-in-one web3 stack Sequence, and the difference between non-custodial and self-custodial wallets.

Dec 22, 2023 • 50:19

148 | State of web3 gaming in 2023 with Game7

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ Check out Game7's State of Web3 Gaming report at https://research.game7.io/state-of-web3-gaming-2023 In BCGW #148, Jon Jordan talks to Game7's head of research George Isichos about the State of Web3 Gaming report the DAO has released.

Dec 12, 2023 • 54:05

147 | From STEPN to Gas Hero w/ Shiti Manghani

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #147, Jon Jordan talks to Find Satoshi Lab's COO Shiti Manghani about what it was like to experience the rapid success of move-to-earn game STEPN in early 2022, why the company has built out an ecosystem including a DEX and NFT marketplace, and what's next including new social mobile game Gas Hero.

Dec 12, 2023 • 35:53

Blocklords | Start as a farmer, become an NFT king

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #146, Jon Jordan talks to MetaKing Studios' CEO David Johansson about strategy PC MMOG Blocklords, which is now playable in open beta via Epic Games Store in its early iteration. David talks about the vision for the game, which is a MMO with strategy elements and epic battles, where you start off as a farmer, gathering resources, but in which you can create a family dynasty and work your way up to become a king of

Nov 7, 2023 • 39:33

BCGW #145 | Why Trophy is giving away 98% of its revenue

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #145, Jon Jordan talks to Superlayer's Kevin Chou about his career in gaming (Kabam, Gen.G, Rally, Forte) and new launch Trophy, a games ID and discovery platform in which players can earn 98% of their ad revenue by sharing data with advertisers.

Oct 25, 2023 • 43:33

BCGW #144 | Proof of Play's 100% onchain gaming vision

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW episode #144, Jon Jordan talks to Proof of Play CEO Amitt Mahajan about his career - as a co-creator of FarmVille etc - and why he's so excited about building fully onchain games - such as debut Pirate Nation - which are fully composable and unlock new experiences both for developers, players and their communities.

Oct 17, 2023 • 43:37

BCGW #143 | SKALE Network's new gaming chops

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #143, Jon Jordan talks to SKALE Networks' Jack O'Holleran about the Ethereum-based scaling solution's recent rise as a blockchain for high performance games.

Oct 10, 2023 • 34:42

BCGW #142 | League of Kingdoms redux

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #142, Jon Jordan talks to NOD Games director of BD Dan Lee about the web3 veteran dev's expansion for its 4X game League of Kingdoms, and how it's moving also into publishing and advising other South Korean companies about web3 including NHN.

Oct 5, 2023 • 43:40

BCGW #141 | Reignition of Star Atlas

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In episode #141, Jon Jordan talks to ATMATA CEO Michael Wagner about Star Atlas; how he's dealt with the past 12 months of difficulties while maintaining his grand vision for the space combat and trading MMO, which is currently releasing multiple different experiences.

Sep 21, 2023 • 40:58

BCGW #140 | Wreck League is building the perfect esport mechs

Read Jon's daily email at https://gamestx.substack.com/ Jon Jordan talks to nWay CEO Taehoon Kim about the company's background in real-time multiplayer fighting games, its first web3 experiment, and how it hooked up with Yuga Labs to launch season one of its mobile mech NFT builder-and-battler Wreck League, which goes live on 14th September.

Sep 5, 2023 • 38:55

BCGW #139 | Blockchain gaming offers huge upside despite slow adoption says Com2uS

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ BCGW #139 | Jon Jordan talks to Com2uS' US president Kyu Lee about the South Korean game company's early experiments in blockchain games and why it's currently taking a very controlled approach to introducing these mechanics into games such as Summoners War: Chronicles.

Aug 9, 2023 • 40:33

BCGW #138 | Why Delabs is all-in on blockchain games

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #138, Jon Jordan talks to Delabs' head of web3 strategy Quinn Kwon about the South Korean developer's approach making high quality blockchain games.

Jul 27, 2023 • 31:23

BCGW #137 | No wallet, just stream: Ember Sword’s mass market plan

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #137, Jon Jordan talks to Mark Laursen, the CEO of Bright Star Studios about its forthcoming MMORPG Ember Sword.

Jul 19, 2023 • 32:04

BCGW #136 | Extending blockchain game economies with Moonstream

Check out Jon's daily Substack at https://gamestx.substack.com/ In BCGW #136, Jon Jordan talks to Moonstream CEO Neeraj Kashyap about how the company helps blockchain game companies control and expand their economies, including reference to how Moonstream has worked with Crypto Unicorns.

Jul 13, 2023 • 35:06

BCGW #135 | Fableborne: the build-and raid mobile RPG

Get Jon's daily blockchain gaming email at Substack In BCGW #135, Jon Jordan talks to Pixion Games' CEO Kam Punia about Fableborne, its forthcoming mobile RPG in which players build and raid each others' bases for rewards and leaderboard placement.

Jun 29, 2023 • 32:39

BCGW #134 | Building Infinigods' interoperable gaming ecosystem

Check out Jon's daily Substack - GamesTX. In BCGW #134, Jon Jordan talk to Infinigods' co-founder Owen O'Donaghue about how it's building out its interoperable ecosystem of games, which offer different gaming experiences but share NFTs, while also allowing players to earn tradeable assets through gameplay in a sustainable manner. 1:33 Owen talks through his previous career at Microsoft and Facebook/Meta 6:47 Axie Infinity, NBA Top Shot and CryptoKitties and the rise of blockch

Jun 21, 2023 • 39:02

BCGW #133 | Ultra - building Steam on steroids for blockchain gaming

Read Jon's daily Gamestx Substack here and the full interview here. In BCGW #133, Jon Jordan talks to Ultra co-CEO Nicolas Gilot about the long gestation and potential synergetic potential of the blockchain-based PC game distribution ecosystem, which also includes a streaming channel, NFT marketplace and esports tournament platform.

Jun 14, 2023 • 42:17

BCGW #132 | Crypto Unicorns - building for core, expanding via casual

Read Jon's daily Substack Gamestx here. In episode #132 Jon Jordan talks to Laguna Games' CEO Aron Beierschmitt about the first year of running its resource farming game Crypto Unicorns, including the launch of new more accessible mobile-first experiences such as Unicorn Party and the Fall Guys-esque Rainbow Rumble. Full article here 0:46 The first year of running Crypto Unicorns 2:00 Launching at the peak of the bull 4:00 We have runway until the end of 2024 6:21 The inspiration for

Jun 7, 2023 • 43:40

BCGW #131 | Azra's Legions & Legends is a F2P mobile-first "web3-sensitive" game w/ Mark Otero

In BCGW #131, Jon Jordan talks to Azra Games' CEO Mark Otero about Legions & Legends, his forthcoming 9th hero collection RPG; notably covering why Otero thinks blockchain and true ownership are important, and why he describes the game as being a "web3-sensitive" title, which will also have a "token of fun". 1:30 Legions & Legends will be your 9th RPG so what does blockchain add to the mix? 2:30 The value of true ownership of game assets 4:00 How can blockchain

May 17, 2023 • 34:11

BCGW #130 | Building Serum City

Jon Jordan talks to Lior.eth from Mutant Cartel and Alex Paley from Faraway Games on their collaboration Serum City, a forthcoming citybuilding game that uses both Bored and Mutant Apes and Mutant Cartel's own NFTs to create new narratives and experiences. We particularly discuss the concept and actualities of NFT interoperability.

Apr 25, 2023 • 37:36

BCGW #129 | The blossoming of Ronin w/ Jeff Zirlin

Jon Jordan talks to Sky Mavis co-founder Jeff Zirlin about the blossoming of the Ronin blockchain, both in terms of its decentralization, as well as the announcement of the first non-Sky Mavis games that will launch on it.

Apr 17, 2023 • 32:32

BCGW #128 | Immutable's future w/ Robbie Ferguson

Jon Jordan talks to Immutable president and co-founder Robbie Ferguson about what its new partnership with Polygon means and how he sees the blockchain game sector developing in 2023.

Mar 28, 2023 • 27:55

BCGW #127 | Launching auto chess battler Mojo Melee

Jon Jordan talks to Mystic Moose CEO Mike Levine about the forthcoming launch of auto chess battler game Mojo Melee, as well as its wider Planet Mojo ecosystem.

Mar 2, 2023 • 46:39

BCGW #126 | Why Japanese game companies are going blockchain w/ Oasys

Jon Jordan talks to Daiki Moriyama and Ryo Matsubara from Oasys about how the gaming blockchain is leveraging the growing interesting in web3 from Japanese game companies ranging from Sega and Square Enix to Gumi and Bandai Namco.

Feb 13, 2023 • 28:51

BCGW #125 | How Magic Eden accelerates blockchain gaming w/ Chris Akhavan

Jon Jordan talks to Magic Eden's chief gaming officer Chris Akhavan about his journey into blockchain gaming and how he hopes Magic Eden will accelerate market adoption.

Jan 30, 2023 • 26:13

BCGW #124 | Future for blockchain games with Yat Siu

We start the year in style as Jon Jordan talks to Animoca Brands' chairman Yat Siu about the aftermath of 2022's crypto crash and where the blockchain game sector goes next as we head into 2023.

Jan 4, 2023 • 46:56

BCGW #123 | 2022 in review w/ David Amor & Will Luton

Jon Jordan discusses what happened in the blockchain game sector during 2022 with David Amor (Playmint) and Will Luton (Village Studio)

Dec 21, 2022 • 56:37

BCGW #122 | Guild of Guardians with Derek Lau

Jon Jordan talks to Immutable's game director Derek Lau about its mobile squad-RPG Guild of Guardians, which is currently in alpha testing, prior to its 2023 launch.

Dec 1, 2022 • 28:54

BCGW #121 | Building the Unioverse w/ Wyeth Ridgway

Jon Jordan talks to Random Games' CTO Wyeth Ridgway about Unioverse, its project to create a "Roblox for triple-A devs" via tools, royalty-free game assets ... and blockchain!

Nov 15, 2022 • 36:56

BCGW #120 | The future of NFTs w/ Alex 'Sillytuna' Amsel

Jon Jordan talks to NFT OG Alex 'Sillytuna' Amsel about what's going on with creator royalties, as well as his two ongoing projects -- game Clodhoppers and NFT remix project Soulcast.

Nov 1, 2022 • 54:54

BCGW #119 | Blockchain Brawlers & Tyranno Studios w/ David Kim

Jon Jordan talks to David Kim about the rebranding of WAX Studios to Tyranno Studios and its games Blockchain Brawlers and the forthcoming Music Mogul.

Oct 21, 2022 • 38:12

BCGW #118 | Games + Community = Angry Dynomites Lab (w/ Oliver Loeffler)

Jon Jordan talks to ex-Kolibri Games co-founder Oliver Loeffler about his new web3 project Angry Dynomites Lab, which has just minted the second of its four elemental dynos NFTs.

Oct 13, 2022 • 29:27

BCGW #117 | How Habbo went web3 w/ Mika Timonnen

Jon Jordan talks to Muumiopappa - aka Mika Timonnen, the NFT director at Azerion - about what happened when NFTs were introduced into the long-running online community Habbo (originally Habbo Hotel) and what's happening next.

Oct 10, 2022 • 31:05

BCGW #116 | MechaFightClub w/ Rahul Sood

Jon Jordan talks to Irrevelant Labs' CEO Rahul Sood about MechaFightClub, the Solana-based game that will pit AI-driven robotic chickens from the future (in the form of dynamic NFTs) against each other -- first in the Cockpit and then in the global Cocktagon tournament, something labelled as "The Metaverse's Craziest Battle Arena".

Oct 3, 2022 • 31:45

BCGW #115 | Talking Axie Infinity's future w/ Jeff Zirlin

Apologises for the choppy video, but great content (as ever from) Sky Mavis' co-founder Jeff 'Jiho' Zirlin talking about the future of Axie Infinity, both in terms of the new F2P mobile game Axie Infinity: Origins, the new token reward system, the forthcoming Land game alpha, the esports strategy and the growing pains of being the co-founder of a fast-growing startup -- Sky Mavis is now 175 people, and still hiring.

Sep 23, 2022 • 36:17

BCGW #114 | Bitcoin - gaming's global payment channel? (w/ Ben Cousens, Zebedee)

Jon Jordan talks to chief strategy officer Ben Cousens about how Zebedee's use of Bitcoin's Lightning Network is opening up new, more collaborative business models for games (and players), ranging from ad-share micropayments in hypercasual mobile games to MMORGPs and shooters.

Sep 19, 2022 • 36:14

BCGW #113 | Jamie Jackson, CCO, Mythical Games

Jon Jordan talks to Mythical Games' chief creative officer Jamie Jackson about how he got into the industry (anyone else remember Colin McRae Rally 2?), his move into blockchain gaming with Blankos Block Party, and what's next with NFL Rivals and Nitro Nations: World Tour.

Sep 13, 2022 • 42:31

BCGW #112 | Mighty Action Heroes w/ Simon Davis

Jon Jordan talks to Mighty Bear Games CEO Simon Davis about its forthcoming battle royale web3 game Mighty Action Heroes, which is the first title in the MightyNet interoperable gaming universe.

Jul 28, 2022 • 27:01

BCGW #111 | Life Beyond w/ Vincent Marty

Jon Jordan talks to Darewise's Vincent Marty about its forthcoming open world MMOG Life Beyond, which is entering its first playable alpha.

Jun 28, 2022 • 35:26

BCGW #110 | Splinterlands and what's next? w/ Jesse Reich

Jon Jordan talks to Splinterlands' CEO Jesse Reich about recent changes to the TCG's reward structure -- to better reward NFT ownership and skilled play -- and new imminent features including the launch of validator nodes, as well as discussing new games including a licensed sports game and a collaboration with Warners Music.

Jun 14, 2022 • 36:30

BCGW #109 | Talking Eternal World Online w/ Core Loop

Jon Jordan talks to US developer Core Loop's co-founders Dan Chou and Vincenzo Alagna about their previous experience in web2 F2P mobile gaming and how that led them to start Core Loop to make MMORPG Eternal World Online, which is currently in development, aiming for a closed Alpha in summer 2022.

May 17, 2022 • 37:00

BCGW #108 | ARC8's mobile blockchain gaming platform w/ GAMEE's Bozena Rezab

Apologies for my audio quality in this episode ... Jon Jordan talks to GAMEE CEO Bozena Rezab about why it decide to take its traditional mobile game platform and add blockchain -- launching it as ARC8, which is now live with 12 games, its GMEE token on Polygon and G-Bot NFTs. And how GAMEE plans to make ARC8 more decentralized over time with third party developers launching their own games with the platform. More at https://www.gamee.com/arc8

Apr 5, 2022 • 32:44

BCGW #107 | Talking moddable FPS Shrapnel w/ Don Norbury

Jon Jordan talks to Neon Machine's head of studio Don Norbury about its moddable, competitive FPS Shrapnel, which is launching on the Avalanche blockchain.

Mar 23, 2022 • 37:16

BCGW #106 | Hypercasual games get blockchain on Infinite Arcade (w/ Şekip Can Gökalp)

Jon Jordan talks to Şekip Can Gökalp (CEO, Coda Games) about Infinite Arcade, the first platform to bring the hypercasual mobile sector into blockchain by using NFTs as a paid entry ticket for earning in-game tokens.

Mar 4, 2022 • 38:06

BCGW #105 | All things blockchain games with Koh Kim (Mysten Labs)

Jon Jordan talks to Koh Kim (ex-Google Play, beauty products entrepreneur, Panzerdogs advisor etc) about all things blockchain games, including why she decided to formally rejoin the industry as head of ecosystem at Mysten Labs.

Feb 8, 2022 • 46:18

BCGW #104 | Talking Mini Royale: Nations w/ Alex Paley (Faraway)

Jon Jordan talks to Faraway Games CEO Alex Paley about Mini Royale: Nations, the first live multiplayer game using the Solana blockchain. The browser-based shooter currently enables the use of NFT avatars, with deeper social features backed by its two tokens planned later in 2022.

Jan 21, 2022 • 38:16

BCGW #103 | Why STALKER 2's NFT U-turn is irrelevant (w/ DMarket's Vlad Panchenko)

Jon Jordan talks to DMarket CEO Vlad Panchenko about why STALKER 2's rejection of NFTs (which would have launched on DMarket) is irrelevant to the overall growth of blockchain gaming. By the end of 2022, Vlad expects to have 100 games live with NFTs on the marketplace.

Dec 28, 2021 • 31:02

BCGW #102 | How the metaverse turns ads into valuable NFTs (w/ Sam Huber, Admix)

Jon Jordan talks to Admix CEO Sam Huber about how it's launched advertising into the metaverse (auctioning NFTs in Somnium Space) in a way that allows creators to make money, and how this process will eventually invert the whole advertising business, with NFTs turning intrusive advertising into valuable brand engagement (valuable for brands and users).

Dec 20, 2021 • 22:54

BCGW #101 | Space-bound with Influence and Jean-Paul Faraj

Jon Jordan talks to Jean-Paul Faraj about Influence, an ambitious space game, which is being built on Ethereum; indeed various NFTs are already live with tokens and missions to follow soon. Find out more at https://www.influenceth.io/

Nov 23, 2021 • 39:07

BCGW #100 | Talking blockchain games with Will Luton & David Amor

Jon Jordan has a lovely chat about the future of blockchain games with his old chums Will Luton (Department of Play) and David Amor (Playmint), who have also made the jump from gaming to blockchain games.

Nov 19, 2021 • 47:43

BCGW #99 | Blockchain as gaming's next cycle w/ SuperJoost

Jon Jordan talks to games industry data head and consultant SuperJoost about blockchain gaming; notably about how it fits into the ongoing digital goods revolution of the past 10 years, and the immediate challenges that need to be overcome. Get Joost's insightful email via Substack.

Oct 14, 2021 • 44:33

BCGW #98 | How blockchain games go mainstream w/ Mythical CEO John Linden

Jon Jordan talks to CEO John Linden about how Mythical Games is taking blockchain games mainstream, both with internal titles such as Blankos Block Party and its own Mythical platform, which allows traditional PC, console and mobile developers to get up and running on blockchain in an easy, accessible and regulatory-secure manner.

Sep 20, 2021 • 31:21

BCGW #97 | Why The Walking Dead is invading The Sandbox

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.

Aug 24, 2021 • 30:23

BCGW #96 | Guild of Guardians w/ Derek Lau

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/

Aug 17, 2021 • 29:59

BCGW #95 | Skyweaver and its novel use of NFTs w/ Michael Sanders

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

Aug 9, 2021 • 39:19

BCGW #94: Talking Axies and esports with Chief

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.

Jun 28, 2021 • 31:51

BCGW #93 | Talking Star Atlas with Michael Wagner

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

May 19, 2021 • 39:09

BCGW #92: Deploying $88,888,888 to take blockchain gaming mainstream with Animoca's Yat Siu

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.

May 18, 2021 • 42:27

BCGW #91 | Scaling blockchain gaming with Immutable X (w/ Robbie Ferguson)

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/

Apr 13, 2021 • 30:20

BCGW #90 | Pocketful of Quarters' vision for a universal gaming currency

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/

Mar 26, 2021 • 29:26

BCGW #89 | Talking ILLUVIUM w/ Warwick bros

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/

Mar 17, 2021 • 35:40

BCGW #88 | How Yield Guild is disrupting the global economy

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 through governance tokens.

Mar 11, 2021 • 34:29

BCGW #87: Crypto mining for gamers w/ Salad's Bob Miles

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/

Feb 5, 2021 • 29:32

BCGW #86: Polyient Games and the rise of NFTs w/ Craig Russo

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.

Jan 15, 2021 • 37:53

BCGW #85: Revving up F1 Delta Time w/ Robby Yung

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.

Dec 22, 2020 • 41:02

BCGW #84: NFTs in 2020 w/ Andrew Steinwold

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.

Dec 15, 2020 • 34:38

BCGW #83: Axie Infinity's stellar 2020 with Jeff 'Jiho' Zirlin

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.

Dec 9, 2020 • 31:20

BCGW #82: Revealing F1 Delta Time's 1-1-1 NFT owner

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 1-1-1 and the future of NFTs.

Nov 11, 2020 • 47:54

BCGW #81: Splinterlands' Land expansion w/ Jesse 'Aggroed' Reich

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

Oct 26, 2020 • 39:17

BCGW #80: Talking Wombat with Adrian Krion

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.

Oct 14, 2020 • 35:43

BCGW #79: Dapper Labs on Flow and NBA Top Shot

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.

Oct 1, 2020 • 32:56

BCGW #78: Talking Blankos Block Party with Rudy Koch

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

Sep 30, 2020 • 31:09

BCGW #77: Talking Sorare with Nicolas Julia

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/

Sep 22, 2020 • 32:39

BCGW #76: LiteBringer - the first game on Litecoin

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/

Sep 15, 2020 • 36:01

BCGW #75: Talking crypto art, sharded Axies and Aavegotchi with Gabby Dizon

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.

Aug 21, 2020 • 34:19

BCGW #74: Talking League of Kingdoms

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.

Aug 17, 2020 • 25:32

BCGW #73: Talking Axie Infinity growth with Jihoz

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.

Jul 23, 2020 • 37:28

BCGW #72: Talking Upland with Idan Zuckerman

Jon Jordan talks to Upland co-founder Idan Zuckerman about how he got into blockchain, the vision for Upland - a mobile-first game running on the EOS blockchain - and how the team plan to build on their initial success - currently Upland is the #2 blockchain game by daily activity - by launching the ability to run businesses within the game. You can use this link to get a sign-up bonus of 6,000 UPX, worth 2 entry-level buildings. https://discover.upland.me/blockchaingamingworld

Jul 9, 2020 • 32:35

BCGW #71: Gaming on Bitcoin SV?

Jon Jordan talks to Kronoverse CEO Adam Kling about CryptoFights, its PVP esports game that was originally built on Ethereum but which has switched to the Bitcoin SV blockchain.

Jul 8, 2020 • 34:52

BCGW #70: Gaming and Skale Labs' elastic sidechains w/ Jack O'Holleran

Jon Jordan talks to Skale Labs' co-founder and Jack O'Holleran about its Ethereum-based 'elastic sidechain' scaling solution (which is about to launch its mainnet) and why it's important for blockchain gaming. Find out more about Skale Labs and its Innovator Program.

Jun 3, 2020 • 33:36

BCGW #69: Talking Metaboss with Alex Amsel

Jon Jordan and Alex Amsel talk about Metaboss: a game - now live on Ethereum - that only could work using blockchain technology. Read the 2 Starter Guide articles about Recruitment and Combat.

May 26, 2020 • 29:14

BCGW #68: Talking Splinterlands: blockchain gaming's secret success

Auto card battler Splinterlands has a good claim to being the most popular and successful blockchain game, but doesn't get the same attention of other titles as it runs on the Steem blockchain. In this episode, Jon Jordan talk to project lead Jesse 'Aggroed' Reich about the game's genesis, its future vision, how it deals with bots, and how the Steem community has been impacted by the Hive hard fork.

May 13, 2020 • 45:13

BCGW #67: Talking Blockchain Cuties with Vlad Tomko

It's two years since Blockchain Cuties launched, so a great opportunity to talk to CEO Vlad Tomko about how he got into blockchain games, the inspiration for Blockchain Cuties, the opportunities and challenges of multi-chain deployment, and the longterm vision for the game now better known as Blockchain Cuties Universe. And, as ever, you can contact me - jon jordan - via Twitter at blockchaingmg.

May 6, 2020 • 43:26

BCGW #66: Talking VC with Venrock's David Pakman

In this episode, Jon Jordan talks to Venrock partner David Pakman about investing in blockchain startups (he's notably invested in Dapper Labs), as well as the Seven Things That Need To Happen Before Blockchain Goes Mainstream.

Apr 16, 2020 • 33:08

BCGW #65: Talking The Sandbox with Sebastian Borget

Jon Jordan talks to Sebastian Borget about the vision behind 'Roblox meets the Blockchain' user-generated content platform The Sandbox.

Mar 30, 2020 • 34:53

BCGW #64: Bitcoin micropayments with Zebedee

Should game developers consider using Bitcoin's Lightning network to enable Bitcoin micropayments in their games, tournaments and community building? Jon Jordan talks to Simon Cowell and Chris 'Mandelduck' Moss from UK startup Zebedee, which has just launched its SDK.

Mar 18, 2020 • 32:40

BCGW #63: Stryking's white paper

German blockchain gaming platform Skryking has released its white paper, explaining how its first fantasy soccer game will work. Read more here

Mar 11, 2020 • 10:03

BCGW #62: What blockchain can learn from New York

Musings following a couple of days spent in Manhattan following NFT.NYC 2020

Mar 5, 2020 • 4:18

BCGW #61: Talking Theta Labs with Mitch Liu

What's the vision for Theta.tv? Jon Jordan talks to Theta Labs' CEO Mitch Liu about how he got into blockchain and the goal for its decentralized CDN, starting off with esports game streaming. Find out more at Theta Labs and Theta.tv

Mar 3, 2020 • 30:43

BCGW #60: Dapper Labs & UFC

CryptoKitties developer Dapper Labs is working on a blockchain collectible and gaming experience with UFC. Read more here

Feb 26, 2020 • 10:01

BCGW #59: Is BRAVE FRONTIER HEROES cannabalizing MY CRYPTO HEROES?

Jon Jordan discusses active wallet data on the first 2 months of BRAVE FRONTIER HEROES to check if it's taking audience away from MY CRYPTO HEROES. You can check out the video version here: https://youtu.be/qxFcUEMJSSc

Feb 24, 2020 • 13:20

BCGW #58.1: Life Beyond integrates Dmarket

French startup Darewise is using blockchain marketplace Dmarket in its forthcoming MMOG Life Beyond to enable item trading. Interestingly, the word 'blockchain' does not appear once in the announcement! https://dmarket.com/blog/darewise-partners-dmarket/

Feb 18, 2020 • 11:33

BCGW #58: Litcoin RPG Litebringer now live (alpha)

There's a blockchain game running on Litecoin! CipSoft's RPG Litebringer is now freely available in Alpha version running on the Litecoin testnet. https://www.litebringer.com/

Feb 13, 2020 • 7:53

BCGW #57: Brave Frontier Heroes' +$500,000 launch

In this episode of Blockchain Gaming World Daily, Jon Jordan discusses the highly successful launch of Brave Frontier Hereos, which sold NFTs worth 2,850 ETH (+$500,000). https://medium.com/@missbitcoin_mai/brave-frontier-heroes-achieved-in-its-first-week-2-850eth-in-sales-414986f9af0a

Feb 12, 2020 • 4:41

BCGW #56: The Sandbox's 2nd LAND presale is live

In this episode, Jon Jordan discusses the 2nd of 5 planned LAND pre-sales from blockchain UGC universe The Sandbox.

Feb 11, 2020 • 9:24

BCGW #55: F1 Delta Time's crate sale

And we're back... In this episode of Blockchain Gaming World Daily, I discuss F1 Delta Time's forthcoming crate sale. https://medium.com/@f1deltatime/announcing-the-f1-delta-time-crate-sale-2ff3f807ff5c

Feb 10, 2020 • 7:24

BCGW #54: Fulfilling Gods Unchained’s potential with Chris Clay

In this episode, I talk to Chris Clay, the new game director of much anticipated blockchain TCG Gods Unchained. Chris’ appointment was big news thanks to his previous work on Magic: The Gathering Arena at Wizards of the Coast. And, in this podcast, we drill down into the three reasons he was excited to join developer Immutable: team, community, and the game itself. Topics covered include: Chris’ previous experience working on Magic His first impressions of blockchain and why it’s important fo

Sep 12, 2019 • 33:10

BCGW #53: Crypto Space Commander prepares for lift-off

We’re into the second year of the Blockchain Gaming World podcast, and kicking off with US developer Lucid Sight. We talk to CEO Randy Saaf and CTO Fazri Zubair about their forthcoming space MMO Crypto Space Commander (CSC), which they describe as like ‘EVE Online on the blockchain’. The game will be in Steam early access in late August, alongside a pre-sale of game items including the first ships from CSC’s recent licensing deal with Star Trek. Topics covered include: Why Lucid Sight wa

Aug 9, 2019 • 30:54

BCGW #52: Talking CryptoWars with e11.io’s Matias Nisenson

In this episode, Jon discusses the ongoing development of blockchain strategy game CryptoWars with Experimental (aka e11.io) CEO Matias Nisenson. Development on CryptoWars started in mid-2018 and since the start of 2019, Experimental has been regularly testing various aspects of the game - from the blockchain infrastructure including Loom Network’s Layer 2 solution through to gameplay features. The game is currently expected to be live in early 2020. Topics covered include: Matias’

Jul 22, 2019 • 31:22

BCGW #51: Sizzle vs Actuality

In this episode, Jon discusses blockchain game sector trends with James McQuillan (@BCGbiz). Some blockchain game projects are now going live but few people seems to care. Similarly, it’s not clear when other high profile projects are going to go live. Certainly the sector seems much stronger when it comes to sizzle than it comes to actuality. How big is this problem? How can we solve it? How can projects gain scale? Topics covered include: Is it too early to be talking about cross-chain

Jul 12, 2019 • 33:57

BCGW #50: Why 8 Circuit Studios focuses on game not blockchain

In this episode, Jon talks to 8 Circuit Studios’ president James Mayo about the US indie’s approach to combining games and the blockchain. Notably, in the case of its in-development PC space combat and FPS title Project Genesis - using Unreal Engine, Ethereum, and scheduled for release in 2020 - this means a heavy focus on building a strong community through an open development process and regular playtests. Topics covered include: James’ early experience in games with Nintendo and Micro

Jun 28, 2019 • 31:25

BCGW #49: Azarus’ Alex Casassovici on taking blockchain gaming mainstream

In this episode, Jon and co-founder Alex Casassovici (@alexksso) discuss the rise of the Azarus blockchain-based rewards platform for game streaming. What’s significant about Azurus (which uses an EOS sidechain) is it doesn’t mention blockchain, onboards users through ther Twitch accounts, and can be retrofitted to any existing game. Also, its rewards urrency - AZA Credits - is locked to the platform and can’t be exported to crypto exchanges. Basically then Azarus uses blockchain tec

Jun 24, 2019 • 25:11

BCGW #48: Many small steps towards success

In this episode, Jon and James (@BCGbiz) discuss the week’s blockchain games news, which could be viewed as the many small steps developers are taking to bring about the success of the entire sector. Topics covered include: Gods Unchained and its open beta Blockchain Gamer Connects Hong Kong MakerDAO’s hook up with Axie Infinity Zilliqa launches smart contracts The ‘rise’ of TRON Bitizens repays its pre-sales Decentraland’s Frame interoperability for NFTs The bet between peopl

Jun 18, 2019 • 32:14

BCGW #47: Tony Pearce on why games will take blockchain mass market

In this episode, Jon Jordan talks to mobile game entrepreneur Tony Pearce about the formation and funding of Reality Clash developer Reality Gaming Group, and why he believes games will be the products that take blockchain tech mainstream. Topics covered include: Tony’s early years in mobile games Reality Clash’s 2017 ICO The UX pain points that need to be overcome Why Crypto Winter was horrible but necessary Why games and NFTs will drive blockchain adoption Why the big game companies

Jun 10, 2019 • 26:33

BCGW #46: Talking the future of blockchain games with Gareth Jenkins

In this episode, Jon Jordan and game/blockchain developer Gareth Jenkins (@garethjenkins) discuss what’s been going on and what will be going on in the world of blockchain games, including chewing the fat over the new Dapper wallet and Cheeze Wizards. Topics covered include: The current state of the industry The possible impact of Ethereum 2.0 and Cosmos Whatever happened to EOS and TRON? Issues around the integration blockchain, games and brands Dapper Labs’ new Dapper wallet and

May 24, 2019 • 39:14

BCGW #45: Enjin’s Multiverse - strengths & weaknesses

In this episode, Jon Jordan and James (@BCGbiz) discuss the Enjin Multiverse, which is a growing blockchain gaming platform, spanning everything from the technology to make blockchain games to rules for item interoperability, the Enjin cryptocurrency, a mobile wallet, plus strong developer support and an active crypto community. Currently over 20 games are using the platform, with more being added as Enjin rolls out its latest Enjin Sparks program. Topics covered include: What is the Enj

May 17, 2019 • 35:46

BCGW #44: CryptoKitties’ new robotic traits, the Dapper wallet & Cheeze Wizards!?

In this episode, Jon Jordan and James (@BCGbiz) discuss what’s been going on in the world of CryptoKitties’ developer Dapper Labs, which has announced new Robotic Traits, launched the open beta for its new smart contract wallet Dapper, and is totally confusing everyone with its just-announced somewhat surreal Cheeze Wizards game (at least, we think it’s a game). Topics covered include: CryptoKitties’ new RoboKitty Purrstige Traits, which will “unlock new features in other dapps” A wider discu

May 3, 2019 • 20:00

BCGW #43: What have we learned in 2019 so far?

Following my presentation at, and various discussions during, the Crypto Games Conference in Minsk, I've been thinking about the state of the Blockchain Gaming, especially given we are now a third of the way through a year many hope will be a turning point for the sector. You can read the article version of this podcast (including some graphs) on Medium. Follow Jon on Twitter Check out Blockchain Gaming World on YouTube Like the show? Donate ETH to 0xa2F7899ca1Bf8e602c09F1C70671926a9

Apr 30, 2019 • 5:23

BCGW #42: Talking fully decentralized games with Xaya’s Andy Colosimo

In this episode, I talk to Andy Colosimo, the driving force behind the Xaya blockchain games platform, about how he got into crypto with Bitcoin and Namecoin, experimented with blockchain and gaming with Huntercoin, and how that developed into Chimera, which was rebranded as Xaya in 2018. Topics covered include: How Andy got involved in Namecoin How Namecoin developed into the first blockchain game - Huntercoin The vision for a fully decentralized blockchain game platform - Xaya A compariso

Apr 18, 2019 • 25:14

BCGW #41: Talking Battle Racers with Altitude’s Luna Javier

This week, Jon Jordan talks to Altitude Games’ creative director Luna Javier about the mobile game developer’s move into blockchain games. Its debut title Battle Racers will launch as one of the first partnerships with Decentraland in the coming months. Topics covered included: Why Altitude Games got interested in blockchain The happenstance that resulted in Battle Racers joining Decentraland How the game has been designed to be accessible for everyone And how it integrates the Ethere

Apr 10, 2019 • 26:43

BCGW#40: Talking F1, brands and NFT value with Animoca Brand's Robby Yung

This week, Jon Jordan talks to Animoca Brands’ CEO Robby Yung about the Hong Kong-based developer and publisher’s 2018 pivot from mobile games into blockchain products, notably blockchain gaming. Note: This interview happened prior to Animoca’s announcement it was acquiring German developer Stryking for $1 million, plus its investment raise of $3 million. Topics covered included: Why Animoca moved from mobile to blockchain The value of the true ownership of digital items How big brand

Apr 5, 2019 • 24:57

BCGW#39: Why MLB Crypto Baseball became MLB Champions

This week, Jon Jordan (@blockchaingmg) and James McQuillan (@BCGbiz) talk about how three blockchain games are positioning themselves for mass market success, in terms of their use of licenses, marketing and community outreach. Topics covered included: Why MLB Crypto Baseball 2018 become MLB Champions and has removed blockchain from its onboarding. Neon District's Founders Sale. The announcement of the F1 Delta Time blockchain game from Animoca Brands. Links MLB Champions website Neon Di

Mar 29, 2019 • 24:20

BCGW#38: Talking Axie Infinity with COO Alexsander Larsen

In this episode, I talk to Alexsander Larsen, the COO of Axie Infinity about the background to and future of the breeding-and-battling blockchain game, which is a great example of technological expertise and community focus. Topics covered include: How Alexsander got into blockchain games and connected with Axie Infinity’s founders (Trung and Jeff) How the game was influenced by CryptoKitties, notably in terms of creating item value Axie Infinity’s recent Land sale and the vision for

Mar 25, 2019 • 25:00

BCGW#37: Is Ripple the next gaming blockchain?

In this week's podcast, Jon Jordan and James (@BCGbiz) discuss the announcement a $100 million game development fund to be managed by Ripple's Xpring outfit and new blockchain gaming startup Forte. We also delve into the expanding universe of new blockchains, which could be used for gaming including IOST, Cosmos etc, and think about why success in this space will be more than just technical excellence . You can check out the video version of the podcast here. Follow us on Twitter Follow us

Mar 15, 2019 • 19:57

BCGW#36: Talking blockchain games with Gabby Dizon

Following the end of DGC Dubai 2019 (where we were both speaking), I caught up with Gabby Dizon, chairman of Alto.io, to talk about what's going on in the world of blockchain games, in particularly Gabby's love of Axie Infinity, and how that game has built a strong player community and economy. You can check out the video version of this podcast here Follow me on Twitter Check us out on YouTube

Mar 8, 2019 • 13:18

BCGW#35: Springtime for blockchain games

Following the Crypto Winter, it could be spring for blockchain games. Jon Jordan and James (@BCGbiz) discuss the surprising pop of Enjin Coin's USD value (up +150%) thanks to its Samsung S10 tie-in, also talking more generally about the BUIDLing not HODLing attitude from blockchain games companies ranging from Decentraland to Loom Network, as well as the difference between "blockchain games" and games with some blockchain features. Follow us on Twitter Watch us on YouTube

Mar 1, 2019 • 16:22

BCGW#34: Talking MLB Crypto Baseball with Lucid Sight

In this interview, I talk to Randy Saaf (CEO) and Fazri Zubair (CTO) of US developer Lucid Sight about its blockchain games MLB Crypto Baseball and CSC (Crypto Space Commander), including how it's finding balance between the decentralization needed for secure NFT ownership and the frictionless onboarding that a mass market license such as MLB requires, including fiat payments. Follow us on Twitter Watch us on YouTube

Feb 27, 2019 • 30:24

BCGW#33: NFTs - challenges and opportunities

Non-Fungible Tokens are one of the key trends in blockchain games, so Jon Jordan and James (@BCGbiz) discuss what an NFT is, why they're becoming so important, and what some of the issues are, especially as NFTs are increasingly being spoken about as speculative investments. Follow us on Twitter Watch us on YouTube, including a visual version of this podcast

Feb 22, 2019 • 23:54

BCGW#32: Talking OpenSea with Devin Finzer

In this interview, I talk to the CTO of blockchain game marketplace OpenSea Devin Finzer about the importance of such thirdparty marketplaces in the open blockchain game ecosystem, especially in terms of offering pre-launch item sales for funding, game discoverability, and overall market liquidity. You can find Devin on Twitter Plus follow us on Twitter Watch us on YouTube And drop us an email - jon@blockchaingaming.world

Feb 13, 2019 • 25:44

BCGW#31: We don’t need no heroes (or Fortnite)

Don’t get me started on the egregious attempts to shoehorn the words ‘Fortnite’ and ‘blockchain’ into the same headline... Follow us on Twitter Watch us on YouTube Or email jon@blockchaingaming.world

Feb 12, 2019 • 3:47

BCGW#30: Plasma Bears - the good and the bad

In this podcast, Jon Jordan and James (@BCGbiz) discuss the launch of Blockade Games' game Plasma Bears, which runs on Loom Network's Ethereum sidechain technology and doesn't require wallets, ETH, marketplaces or any of the other elements we've come to expect from blockchain games. You can follow us on Twitter Watch us on YouTube And gift us Plasma Bear parts too!

Feb 8, 2019 • 18:51

BCGW#29: Recap of Blockchain Gamer Connects London 2019

The third edition of the Blockchain Gamer Connects conference ran in London from 21-22 January 2019, so event MC Jon and James (editor at @BCGbiz) discuss the key trends arising: including sector enthusiasm despite Crypto Winter, the growing importance of UX, the value of games for blockchain usage, and why many blockchain devs are going 'item-first'. Follow us on Twitter Watch on YouTube Read us on Medium

Jan 25, 2019 • 18:12

BCGW#28: Why 2019 will be different

Why are blockchain game developers so bullish? Jon Jordan argues that the hard lessons of 2018 have forced the sector to focus on UX, not blockchain. Maybe, like Fight Club, the first rule of blockchain games will be no-one mentions blockchain games. Follow us on Twitter Watch us on YouTube Read us on Medium

Jan 23, 2019 • 5:02

BCGW#27: Blockchain Game Sentiment Survey 2019

Do you have an opinion about blockchain games and how the sector will develop in 2019? If so, please answer our 10-question Blockchain Game Sentiment Survey for 2019. It will only take 3 minutes. And to whet your appetite, Jon Jordan takes a brief look at the answers collected so far. The survey will remain open until Friday 25 January. Follow us on Twitter Watch us on YouTube Read us on Medium

Jan 18, 2019 • 9:38

BCGW#26: CryptoKitties x Gods Unchained

Interoperability is a concept much talked about in blockchain gaming. But despite the potential for using items from one game in another (and vice versa), we haven't actually seen many examples. Jon Jordan discusses how the deal between CryptoKitties and Gods Unchained ranks in this context, and why interoperability is so much harder to do in practice than in theory. Follow us on Twitter, YouTube and web.

Jan 11, 2019 • 15:37

BCGW#25: Our hopes for 2019

It's a new year so having reflected on how blockchain games progressed (or didn't) in 2018, it's time to consider our hopes and fears for 2019. Jon Jordan, together with James (@BCGbiz), welcome the decoupling of blockchain from cryptocurrency value and look forward to games ranging from Gods Unchained to Blankos Block Party, and discuss UX Maximalism (i.e. UX before decentralization). Follow us and comment at @blockchaingmg And find us at Blockchain Gamer Connects London 2019 on 21-22 January

Jan 4, 2019 • 19:11

BCGW#24: Key 2018 Trends in Blockchain Gaming

The year is almost over so now it's time to consider the key trends that impacted the nascent blockchain gaming sector in 2018. Ranging from the general Crypto Winter, to migration from Ethereum to EOS and Tron (and sidechains), and the failure of blockchain games to improve on CryptoKitties' balance of simplicity and UX, Jon Jordan discusses the past 12 months, and what it all means for 2019. Follow us at https://twitter.com/blockchaingmg

Dec 28, 2018 • 25:30

BCGW#23: Most Anticipated Blockchain Games for 2019

2019 is going to be a breakout year for blockchain games - that's what we're hoping . But for this to happen, there will have to be some excellent games, so in this podcast Jon Jordan and James (@BCGbiz) discuss 10 upcoming games. 1. Gods Unchained, https://twitter.com/GodsUnchained 2. Zombie Battleground, https://twitter.com/ZBCardGame 3. Reality Clash, https://twitter.com/reality_clash 4. Hash Rush, https://twitter.com/PlayHashRush 5. CSC, https://twitter.com/CS_Commander 6. Cryptic Conj

Dec 21, 2018 • 24:02

BCGW #16: Blockchain Game of the Year 2018

Yes, it's that time of the year when we look back and consider which blockchain game released in 2018 gains the title Game of the Year. But - as Jon Jordan argues - this year he doesn't think any blockchain game deserves the accolade (although he is happy to award the Best Worst Blockchain Game of the Year). Follow us on https://twitter.com/blockchaingmg And on Medium at https://medium.com/blockchaingamingworld

Dec 14, 2018 • 20:12

BCGW #15: Blockchain Games vs the Crypto Crisis

Cryptocurrencies prices are tanking but what does that mean for blockchain games? With James (@bcgbiz), Jon Jordan discusses why the death of crypto as an investment asset is actually a great thing for the longterm success of blockchain gaming. Follow us at @blockchaingmg And laugh at my portfolio at https://my.delta.app/Ojyd Note: Not investment advice, purely skin in the game... !

Dec 7, 2018 • 20:37

BCGW #14: Blockchain's UX dilemma

By definition, blockchains are highly decentralized, which creates lots of issues in terms of onboarding and user experience, especially for new users. In this podcast Jon Jordan talks to blockchain expert Gareth Jenkins (Deckbound/ @garethjenkins) about how game projects should balance of making their game accessible while still taking full advantage of the features using a blockchain offers, notably item ownership. Follow us on Twitter @blockchaingmg Check out Deckbound - https://www.deckboun

Nov 30, 2018 • 21:10

BCGW #13: The significance of Mythical Games

LA blockchain games platform Mythical Games decloaked this week with a $16 million Series A funding round. Jon Jordan explains why it is an interesting company and what its arrival tells us about the fast maturing blockchain gaming sector in terms of how it's now highlighting user experience over the technology of blockchain. Follow us at https://twitter.com/blockchaingmg Check out Mythical Games at http://mythical.games/

Nov 16, 2018 • 18:05

BCGW #12: AppCoins and the rise of blockchain app stores

Can blockchain disrupt app stores? That's the discussion this week as Jon and James (@BGCbiz) talk about the recent App Store Foundation conference in Portugal, and the AppCoins project which is already in testing via the Aptoide Android app store and has the potential to connect advertisers with unbanked users, giving them the opportunity to accumulate tokens they then can spend on IAPs. Follow us on https://twitter.com/blockchaingmg More details about AppCoins at: https://appcoins.io/ More

Nov 9, 2018 • 14:42

BGCW #11: CryptoKitties, Dapper Labs and $30m

CryptoKitties dev Dapper Labs has just raised $15m, taking its total to almost $30m so Jon and James (from @BCGbiz) discuss what it will do with all that cash, including its new project Dapper (which Jon mistakenly calls Dapps!), as well as talking more generally about changes in funding for blockchain projects. Follow at https://twitter.com/blockchaingmg Find out more about Dapper and sign up at https://www.whatisdapper.xyz

Nov 2, 2018 • 13:56

BCGW Special - Reality Clash; the first blockchain mobile shooter

As well as blockchain, mobile shooter Reality Clash uses AR/VR and location-based technologies so it's certainly an ambitious project. So, as it begins its beta testing, we talk to community manager Jake and marketing manager Sam to find out more about how the game and how its blockchain ownership model for guns fits into the bigger picture. Follow us on https://twitter.com/blockchaingmg & find out more about Reality Clash at https://realityclash.com/

Nov 1, 2018 • 16:21

BCGW #10: Enjin's Multiverse and struggles with EOS

We talk about Enjin's Multiverse, Jon's struggles setting up an EOS wallet, the launch of Beyond The Void, and trying to find the 'blockchain bit' of Lordmancer II. Follow us on https://twitter.com/blockchaingmg

Oct 26, 2018 • 19:08

BCGW Special: Hedgie - how to make an accessible blockchain game

We talk Hedgie, the forthcoming casual strategy blockchain game, which combines ERC721 hedgehog characters, the game's ERC20 Curio token, a real-world payment system, and a strong focus on onboarding players without requiring any crypto payment or wallet registration. Jon Jordan talks to Stas Zlobinski and Madeleine Cruickshank from developer Hedgie Inc. You can find out more about Hedgie at https://www.hedgie.io/ The Hedgehog in the Fog cartoon at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog_in_t

Oct 23, 2018 • 18:34

Blockchain Gaming World #9: The F2P Challenge

Axie Infinity launches but Jon doesn't want to spend $20 to try it, James finds his retro gaming skills challenged in nTitle's Fury demo, Jon adds to his collection of wallets when he tries to play DopeRaider, (which now runs on the POA Network), and we compare our faux coin haul in our ongoing obsession with BitGuild's airdrop jumblesale app GuildChat.

Oct 19, 2018 • 20:26

Blockchain Gaming World #8 - GuildChat's Skinner Box

BitGuild starts airdropping TRX (and less useful tokens) into its new mobile messaging GuildChat app to much confusion, Jon buys a big shiny gun in Reality Clash, and HyperDragons and Ethermon beat out CryptoKitties' DAUs. Jon Jordan (@blockchaingmg) and BlockchainGamer.biz (@BCGbiz) James discuss the state of blockchain gaming.

Oct 12, 2018 • 19:03

Blockchain Gaming World #7: Game over for Ethereum?

Are game devs now moving away from Ethereum? In this week's episode Jon Jordan talks to blockchain game developer Gareth Jenkins (Deckbound) about the various blockchains available - Ethereum, EOS, TRON etc - not to ignore all the various layer 2 Ethereum sidechain options such as Loom, POA, Tenfold etc, nor more custom options such as XAYA and Gareth's own DLOX tech. (NB: apols for small child interruption... towards the end!)

Oct 5, 2018 • 20:27

The significant trajectory of blockchain games in 2018

Ups and downs: Jon Jordan considers what he's learned about the blockchain game sector in 2018 so far.

Oct 1, 2018 • 6:59

BCGW Special: Gareth Jenkins, Deckbound

Live from the Blockchain Game Summit in Lyon, Jon talks to blockchain/gaming veteran Gareth Jenkins (Deckbound) about the current state of the sector.

Sep 27, 2018 • 10:39

Blockchain Gaming World #6

This week, we discuss Enjin's 'Multiverse', Stick Cricket, the top performing blockchain games of August, and Blockchain Gamer Connects Helsinki. Host Jon Jordan is joined by James from BlockchainGamer.biz.

Sep 21, 2018 • 19:20

BCGW Special: Alto's Crypto Game Challenge

In this episode, we talk to Alto.io's Gabby Dizon about the Crypto Game Challenge and its 'Item First' approach to blockchain gaming.

Sep 13, 2018 • 9:12

Blockchain Gaming World #5

In this week's news roundup, Jon and James discuss: Did someone mean to spend 600 ETH on a Gen 9 CryptoKitty? Is the falling price of crypto good or bad? The launch of MLB Crypto Baseball And will Apple and Google play nice with blockchain games?

Sep 7, 2018 • 22:19

Blockchain Gaming World episode 4

This week, we talk with James from BlockchainGamer.biz about: The ambition of mobile, AR/VR, location-based shooter Reality Clash Hash Rush's 10,000-strong beta War Rider's item pre-sale PC blockchain game distribution platforms Robot Cache and Korrobox Blockchain Waves and games platform Alto.io hook up Plus why blockchain gaming may be great for indies

Aug 24, 2018 • 18:30

Blockchain Gaming World #3

In this week's episode, we're joined by James from BlockchainGamer.biz, and we discuss: Zombie Battleground's $350k Kickstarter Gods Unchained $1.2m pre-sale MLB Crypto Baseball's launch plus Mythereum going live on Bitguild, KamaGames' token sale and Alto and FlowPlay's partnership.

Aug 17, 2018 • 16:39

BGW: Talking to Soccer Manager Crypto & XAYA

In this special edition podcast, we talk to Andrew Colosimo (CEO, XAYA) and Andy Gore (Soccer Manager Crypto) about how they started working together and why SMC is being released on the XAYA blockchain games platform.

Aug 16, 2018 • 16:17

Blockchain Gaming Week #2

In this week's episode, we're joined by BlockchainGamer.biz editor James, and we talk about: Blockchain games including ETH.TOWN, Axie Infinity, Hash Rush, Zombie Battleground and Gods Unchained, Various AR/VR blockchain projects, and new blockchain technoology Hedera Hashgraph

Aug 10, 2018 • 21:15

Blockchain Gaming Week #1

Hello and welcome to the first episode of Blockchain Gaming Week, in which we cover: Zombie Battleground's $300k Kickstarter Cryptic Conjure's pre-item sale ETH.Town's launch Various blockchain game companies' esports deals Partnerships between WAX & CryCash, OpenSea & ECOMI New ERC proposed standards 988 and 1155 and Hedera Hashgraph's $20 million hard cap public ICO.

Aug 3, 2018 • 18:00