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 solid community. Shardbound has launched an open beta via Epic Games Store. Netmarble is bringing its Marblex platform to Immutable zkEVM.

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.