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 do…

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…

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 Seas…

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 o…

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]…

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 long…

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 be…

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 …

⁠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 a…

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 …

⁠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 $1…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Immu…

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 fund…

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 n…

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 MetaCen…

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.

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 an…

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, hig…

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 …

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.…

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…

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. R…

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…

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.

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

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.

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.…

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.…

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.

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.…