Wemade launched Legend of Ymir, Mythical integrated World Chain, Pixels launched Chapter 3 and Yuga's Otherside goes live on 12th November.

• [0:30] Wemade has launched its latest web3-enabled MMORPG Legend of Ymir on PC and mobile.
• [2:10] Wemade previously tried to add blockchain to casual mobile games. It didn't work.
• [3:24] Legend of Ymir is the result of Wemade's experience over its previous web3 games.
• [4:50] Ten game servers have been auctioned to be run by guilds etc.
• [5:50] It's more combat-focused than Night Crows, but still with a lot of idle gameplay.
• [8:09] Wemade as become more nuaunced in how it's combining web2 and web3 elements.
• [10:07] Cambria has raised $2 million from Bitkraft, Sky Mavis and various angels.
• [16:03] The Mythos blockchain is integrating World via the launch of an L3 on World Chain.
• [19:38] One advantage is this gives the Polkadot parachain EVM compatibility for the first time.
• [23:34] Yuga Labs' Otherside will finally go live on 12th November with the Koda Nexus hub.
• [31:13] Pixels has launched Chapter 3 including an new lightweight social competition layer.

Jon's been asking What's Working For Web3 Gaming? at Zebu Live conference.

• [0:27] It's been London Blockchain Week and Jon has been at Zebu Live 2025.
• [2:06] He moderated a panel about What's Working In Web3 Gaming?
• [4:08] Panellists including Koko from Mighty Bear Games and Russell from Metacade.
• [5:58] We've moved from blockchain games to crypto games, with the emphasis on "crypto gainz".
• [7:00] ICP-based MMORPG Dragginz has gone into "hiberation".
• [12:30] YGG Play's LOL Land has now done $5.5 million in revenue.
• [12:59] The key issue for most blockchain game companies is doing what you need to make money.
• [14:10] The comparison is EVE Frontier, MapleStory Universe etc - big onchain gaming ecosystems.
• [16:51] Wildcard has launched into early access on Steam: it's a web2 game with a web3 ecosystem.
• [22:56] Jon's been enjoying playing RavenIdle.

Discussing Mythical Games integrating Worldcoin, MapleStory going multichain, Legend of Ymir's launch plus Sorare and EVE Frontier changing chains.

• [0:18] Mythical Games is about to close a new funding round, including from Worldcoin.
• [1:37] The reason we know this is happening is from a press release from DAT outfit Eightco.
• [4:44] Eightco has raised $270 million to buy Worldcoin tokens, also investing in Mythical Games.
• [7:40] MapleStory Universe is going multichain thanks to Chainlink integration.
• [10:50] Projects focused on UGC want to be as open and accessible as
• [11:26] Wemix's PC/mobile MMORPG Legend of Ymir goes live on 28th October.
• [14:38] One interesting web3 aspect of the game is the ability to own and run your own servers.
• [17:30] Wemix has successfully switched from a quantity to quality-led focus on blockchain games.
• [18:59] Moku saw $5 million allocated in a no-loss raffle pre-sale for its Grand Arena AI game.
• [23:02] Sorare has moved from StarkEx to Solana.
• [26:04] EVE Frontier is moving to the Sui blockchain.
• [27:10] It was using an EVM testnet but decided Sui's object-oriented structure was a better fit.
• [31:37] Does it matter which blockchain a game choses to build on?

Talking SANDchain, Pudgy Party hits 1 million installs, KGeN raises $13.5M and Proof of Play.

• [0:25] The big announcement is SANDchain; a Patreon-type rewards platform for creators.
• [1:25] It's more to do with providing extra utility for SAND token than for The Sandbox platform itself.
• [5:10] Verified creators can use SANDchain to take a loan to invest in their business.
• [7:01] Some creators will also be able to launch their own memecoins.
• [8:05] It feels like a smorgasbord of current blockchain trends. But will anyone actually use it?
• [9:44] Pudgy Party has hit 1 million mobile downloads and Mythos chain has also hit an ATH.
• [13:03] But the MYTH token is at a (near) ATL.
• [14:58] Web3 rewards platform KGeN has raised $13.5 million taking total funding to $43.5 million.
• [15:56] It started out as an Indian guild but is now a global platform with 66 million MAUs.
• [17:32] It verifies all its users across 5 categories, giving them an overall reputation score.
• [22:07] One thing to be aware of is KGeN's current users are being incentivized by a future airdrop.
• [24:29] South Korean web2/3 game item marketplace Overtake has launched its beta on Sui.
• [28:01] The continuing fall out from Pirate Nation's shutdown and the $50 burn price for its NFTs.
• 33:10 Proof of Play is now working on a new mobile game.
• [34:53] It's also generated $500,000 in two months from its Proof of Play Arcade on Abstract.

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:

• [1:00] Axie Infinity: Atia's Legacy has launched its first 7-day playtest.
• [2:10] It's an MMOG that in part builds on the Axie Infinity: Homeland farming/trading game.
• [3:33] Jon thought the initial plans laid out for the game were a little sketchy.
• [8:16] Comparing the iterative approach of Pixels to whether Atia's Legacy needs a stronger direction.
• [10:12] Atia's Legacy probably won't be properly released until 2027. It's a big project.
• [11:10] Jon thinks it's likely that blockchain games need to be more onchain and collaborative.
• [15:42] Resource idle game Craft World announced its Era 3.1 roadmap.
• [18:15] Its challenge is building longterm interest from a simple idle mechanic.
• [19:30] Additions include new land requiring new assets and blueprints, and new base assets.
• [21:55] RavenQuest's idle game RavenIdle launches on 11th October.
• [28:05] Gunzilla has started the mainnet migration for EU-based PC players of Off The Grid.
• [32:06] Jon guestimates Off The Grid's active playerbase.
• [34:03] Gunzilla's official numbers are 300,000 accounts migrated to mainnet.
• [36:03] Immutable's (part) pivot from a gaming blockchain into a general games marketing channel.
• [37:34] All this week's drama around Pirate Nation and its $50 NFT burn offer.
• [39:05] Blockchain games' fundamental issue - divorcing real value assets from speculation.
• [42:18] Despite all the complains, Pirate Nation NFTs were free and holders got +$1,000 of tokens.
• [48:08] Jon's confession - he burnt his Pirate Nation NFT by mistake and so had to buy another one.techn

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:

• [0:44] This week, we asked our Mavens group about the rise of sustainable degen games.
• [2:00] Originally, this type of game was more about crypto than blockchain.
• [3:25] YGG is now calling this genre "casual degen" games.
• [4:40] These experiences start with a thin layer of gaming and a lot of high risk-high reward features.
• [7:30] You can often get 1,000 players into these games but how do you keep them
• [10:05] A lot of these games are launching on the Abstract blockchain.
• [13:00] Degen isn't a negative terms, at least not all the time.
• [13:25] Gigaverse has been going for 200 days, generating $5.5 million in revenue.
• [16:30] It's also building out its ecosystem with third party devs in the Gigaverse Hub.
• [19:39] YGG Play is publishing Gigachadbat on Abstract.
• [24:00] The Sandbox has announced Alpha 6 Season with Cirque du Soleil on 24th September.
• [27:45] The problem is The Sandbox hasn't got product-market-fit, esp. compared to Roblox.
• [29:55] It now needs to focus on creators, probably including the ability to launch tokens.
• [31:32] Off The Grid is starting to migrating EU-based PC players to the Gunz' mainnet.

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:22] Blockchain gaming is quiet. It's having a 'back to school' moment.

[1:05] There's a wider focus on general crypto with ETFs, treasury companies etc. Not gaming.[3:51] Web2 game Wildcard and its Thousand web3 ecosystem is gearing up for its October launch.[5:10] Wildcard has just surpassed 75,000 wishlists on Steam. [9:04] Details about ownership of in-game character cards has been released, including rev share. [11:05] The WC token has been released but it's airlocked into wallets so it's hard to get a price for it.[12:40] People will also be able to buy game arenas, but they would be very expensive.[16:10] Jon's theory of blockchain games operating in a battle royale-style shrinking area.[18:10] Pudgy Party has done 500,000 downloads within 2 weeks.[19:57] The Pudgy Party Power Pudgy NFT skin now has a floor price of $3,300.[21:27] Adam Weitsman has acquired the HV-MTL NFT collection from Faraway Games.

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:

• [1:18] Looking at the most popular blockchain games, we can start to see some trends for 2025.
• [1:42] Axie Infinity and Aliens Worlds have been very stable throughout 2025.
• [4:17] Games such as Pixels and Nine Chronicles have decline sharply as they rethink their vision.
• [6:00] MapleStory Universe is the big growth story of the year so far - c. 70,000 DAUWs.
• [8:41] Craft World has launched its first mainnet collab with Ronkeverse.
• [15:16] Gigaverse has raised $2.3 million to build out open world gameplay.
• [16:55] We're seeing a rise of degen-focused onchain games. Niche but generating revenue.
• [20:42] LOL Land is a good example. It's basically an onchain lottery but generated $1.5 million.
• [22:15] Similar are RWA platforms for Pokemon cards like Courtyard. $125 million of trading in August.
• [27:10] Animoca has announced MocaPortfolio, which will be rewarding $20 million to stakers.
• [28:43] This is part of a wider narrative for Animoca to boost the MOCA token around a possible IPO.
• [32:33] Stakers will burn their staked points to get various free tokens. The first is Magic Eden's ME.
• [34:01] How is Mythical Games doing with its three mobile games now live?
• [35:06] This is in contrast to the trend towards more niche, onchain degen-focused games.

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:

• [0:38] What's going on at The Sandbox? Co-founders shifted? Job cuts? Memecoins?
• [0:52] Animoca's Robby Yung will be the new CEO as Animoca exerts more control over the project.
• [1:30] To a degree, the news is only "big" because its The Sandbox, which everyone knows.
• [3:25] Animoca is annoyed because it wanted to announce the restructure and new vision in the
• [4:10] Things have been going very slowly at The Sandbox. Change was needed.
• [7:19] Despite these changes, The Sandbox will still have nine offices globally.
• [10:40] From the outside, it looks like The Sandbox has suffered from a lack of strategy.
• [12:13] The Sandbox will be announcing a "big new project" a couple of months.
• [13:34] This project seems to be about expanding the scope of the SAND token.
• [17:51] Jon's wild rumor. A SAND treasury company? Fronted by Barron Trump? Stranger things...
• [19:12] Mobile game Pudgy Party is out today with a Steal a Brainrot collab.
• [22:10] It's a cute battle royale game with lots of customization and light combat options.
• [23:01] The concept is Mythical does the game, Pudgy Penguins brings the marketing.
• [28:42] The Axie Infinity Constitution has been revealed. You can vote from 1 September.

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:

• [0:35] Proof of Play is shutting down fully onchain game Pirate Nation.
• [3:08] As well as combat, it had a deep crafting system but never attracted enough players.
• [4:00] Its play-to-airdrop seasons artificially boosted audience but not revenues.
• [6:06] The main reason it shut was it cost $150,000 a month to run the underlying blockchains.
• [7:45] The PVE mode from the game is now available to play on the Abstract blockchain.
• [8:40] NFT holders will get a final airdrop of PIRATE tokens.
• [9:00] Proof of Play will continue to operate, focusing on "profitable business operations".
• [14:30] Ronin strategy game Wild Forest is rebooting, including a new PVE campaign.
• [18:45] The WF token is up 400% but still down 80% from its original launch.
• [21:26] South Korean game item marketplace Overtake has raised $7 million.
• [24:52] It's a web3 project based on existing web2 markets ItemBay and ItemMania.
• [25:33] Splinterlands has launched its cheeky $500,000 Crypto Game Recovery Fund.
• [27:35] It's giving assets to holders of NFTs from games which have shut down.
• [32:53] TGC Project O has been announced for Immutable.

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:

• [0:52] Jon's been talking to MMOG veteran John Smedley about new FPS Reaper Actual.
• [2:30] What's interesting about the project is how perceptions about web3 have shaped its vision.
• [4:31] Steam doesn't allow blockchain and some of the Steam community hates blockchain.
• [4:51] So the web3 version of Reaper Actual will only be available via its own website.
• [5:45] Splitting the game into web2 and web3 versions isn't strong from a marketing pov.
• [8:30] The problem is they'll have a web3 game with most players playing the web2 version.
• [11:57] Shrapnel has raised $19.5 million for its global launch in Q1 2026.
• [13:03] It's funny to see how all the Avalanche fanboys ignore Shrapnel now it's moved to Gala.
• [18:05] Fully onchain game Craft World now accounts for 50% of all transactions on Ronin.
• [21:40] Ubisoft's forthcoming TGC Might & Magic: Fates is doing a pre-sale on 3rd September.

In the latest episode of the Blockchain Gaming World podcast, editor-in-chief Jon Jordan talks to MMOG legend John Smedley about his new studio Distinct Possibility and its forthcoming persistent extraction shooter Reaper Actual, which will be released on Steam and Epic Games Store as a pure web2 game, with the web3 version only available via its own website.

• [2:33] Reaper Actual is a mix between a MMO and a FPS: an "open world persistent shooter".
• [4:18] It's like Escape from Tarkov in an open world and had a baby with Rainbow Six Siege.
• [6:00] How Reaper Actual is different to the likes of Delta Force and Arena Breakout.
• [9:20] The game's persistence is around bases but also a player affinity system.
• [11:40] How the game is using genAI ethically in terms of paying voice actors.
• [14:40] Why is it a blockchain game?
• [18:56] Why there will be a separate web2 version for Steam and EGS.
• [21:50] We are not a pay-to-win game. We never will be.
• [28:14] The game will sell bases, which in the web3 version of the game, will be NFTs.
• [33:07] Why Reaper Actual is building on Tezos' Etherlink EVM L2.
• [34:55] The first playable version will be released on Steam and web3 in late September.

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:

• [0:50] Craft World launched on Ronin. One day late.
• [2:43] It also launched its DynoCoin, which is designed to be a purely transactional token.
• [4:53] DynoCoin was a fair launch, 100% for community. No allocation for team, investors or KOLs.
• [6:42] If you want to cash out from Craft World, you need to buy a $8 Pro Account. This stops bots.
• [12:48] Shrapnel has ditched Avalanche and is moving to GalaChain.
• [16:37] The project has had many issues, mainly with its initial investor, also a high burnrate.
• [18:46] It's now betting everything on being a success in China.
• [21:49] FIFA Rivals has done 1 million downloads from app stores in 7 weeks.
• [23:34] Jon thinks it's a really good game, even though it's still missing its career mode.
• [25:11] And with Pudgy Party releasing soon, Mythical is really gearing up for success.

Jon Jordan talks to Voya Games' CEO Oliver Loeffler about the launch of idle resource game Craft World on Ronin and what's coming next?

• [3:20] Craft World isn't trying to chase hype. It's a project with a long term vision.
• [4:10] We have a long runaway. Yoya Games is very careful with its money.
• [4:55] Right now, we're not sure if we have product-market-fit so we're still experimenting.
• [5:53] Voya is still a small team -- 11 people, mainly in Germany.
• [6:18] AI provides a real boost in terms of productivity. 7:59 The Project Voyager token campaign attracted a lot of degen activity.
• [8:50] We see Project Voyager as its own game. We will reuse it to distribute future rewards.
• [12:08] Degens are a great crowd but you also need to onboard a wider audience to web3.
• [13:03] How Project Voyager winner CattanSettler got into Craft World.
• [14:30] Why Craft World choose Ronin as its blockchain.
• [19:35] Plans for a Ronin Mega Event.
• [23:04] Why the DynoCoin token has been designed for utility, not speculation.
• [29:30] What is Dynogotchi?
• [31:40] Future plans for Craft World and land NFTs, how this fits into the metagame.

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:

• [1:20] Delabs Games has announced its total funding is now $17.2 million.
• [2:58] Its new funding was a $4.7 million Series A round, prior to the DELABS token launch.
• [6:40] It's a difficult time for games team to launch new tokens. All prices are down.
• [8:08] GOAT Gaming has launched Season 4 with new idle game Underground Pepe.
• [13:58] Thinking about blockchain gaming as either a big game or the attention economy.
• [15:48] TOKYO BEAST is shutting down on 24th August.
• [21:33] Does it work to launch a web2 version of a web3 game? Jon thinks not.

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:

• [0:20] Saga and Chrono Labs have launched AI agent platform KEX.
• [1:38] Delabs Games has announced it's using new genAI gamemaking platform Verse 8.
• [4:00] It's interesting to see the second wave of AI agents - all around doing onchain transactions.
• [5:40] Delabs has moved from PC games to midcore games on LINE and now to AI-generated games.
• [7:27] Verse 8 is developed by Planetarium and its CEO has become co-CEO at Delabs.
• [8:38] The games made with Verse 8 are multiplayer and with NFT item economies.
• [10:58] Sky Mavis and YGG are reworking their play-to-earn models, giving away less to extractors.
• [16:19] The issue with doing this is you drop your DAUW count, which is seen as a key KPI.
• [19:08] Fully onchain football game Soccerverse is about to launch Season 2.
• [27:56] Craft World is going live on Ronin mainnet on 29th July.
• [31:53] Is Pudgy Party - out later this summer - the next big web3 game?

Jon Jordan and new AI co-host Rachel talk through the week's news including:

• [0:22] The GUN token is expanding from Avalanche to Solana.
• [2:47] They've said this is to specifically attract a larger US audience.
• [4:00] Solana is also popular for degen and memecoin trading.
• [7:34] AI hypercasual web3 game-making engine Remix raised $5 million.
• [11:27] Voya Games' Project Voyager is over. The DynoCoins will be distributed in next 2 weeks.
• [14:58] Sky Mavis has launched the MVP for its reputation system called Ronin Profiles.
• [19:20] Lumiterra has broken 600,000 DAUWs in its new airdrop campaign.
• [21:18] MapleStory N's most expensive NFT has traded for $23,319.
• [22:37] You can now buy Messi in FIFA Rivals for $11,204.

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:

• [0:39] John Smedly has announced persistent open-world PC shooter Reaper Actual.
• [2:10] A weird aspect is it's using Tezos Etherlink EVM L2 blockchain.
• [5:04] One reason could be that they want blockchain to be in the background.
• [6:56] They've raised $30.5 million, which I don't think you'd get if this wasn't a blockchain game.
• [8:03] The game is a persistent loot shooter, which is a hard genre to get right.
• [11:38] Realistically this is a web2 game with optional web3 elements. I'm not sure that
• [13:54] John Smedley's background is MMOGs like EverQuest and PlanetSide but he's not a designer.
• [15:21] Mythical players are now live in FIFA Rivals. Lionel Messi costs $11,000.
• [19:22] Lumiterra's MegaDrop Part 1 has seen its onchain activity spike to over 300,000 DAUWs.
• [22:47] Jon's been talking to MSquared CEO Rob Whitehead about distributed computing and web3.
• [30:45] Delabs Games has announced LINE/Telegram idle game Ragnarok Libre.

Jon Jordan talks to MSquared CEO Rob Whitehead about the company's attempt to build a PlayFab for web3 gaming, which combined with the Somnia blockchain, will supercharge the sector with more onchain data that's more composable.

• [2:50] Rob Whitehead's current roles at Improbable and MSquared.
• [3:56] Rob's early career as a teenaged virtual arms dealer in Second Life.
• [4:59] How Improbable started work on what became MSquared during Covid lockdown.
• [8:15] How MSquared is different to existing multiplayer technologies for gaming?
• [8:40] Current tech can only handle about 100 players because data quadruples per extra player added.
• [9:08] MSquared uses a smart layer optimizing a cluster of cloud-based computers to boost capacity.
• [11:55] Why MSquared started working with Yuga Labs for its Otherside metaverse.
• [15:07] Blockchain enables interoperability but that's not enough and you can't put everything onchain.
• [17:43] How the Somnia blockchain is designed to be the "fastest EVM blockchain".
• [19:24] Rob's journey into crypto - 'a deepy humbling experience'. "Things are stupid until they're not".
• [23:18] Somnia's speed enables a whole new category of experiences to be built.
• [25:11] Once you unlock a new capability, you then have to learn what to do with it.
• [26:03] "What's the maximal thing you could ever put on a blockchain?"
• [28:21] The first version of Chunked peaked at around 1,000 concurrent players onchain.
• [30:01] "If you can make fully onchain Minecraft on Somnia, what else can you do?"
• [32:18] DeFi has been a success. We're trying to build those Lego blocks for web3 gaming.
• [34:24] We're trying to build a PlayFab for web3 gaming.
• [36:20] We need a decentralized Steam where you can see all your items and progression.
• [37:08] MSquared's OmniChain Indexer works across ApeChain, Somnia, Polygon, Ethereum etc.
• [39:39] Chunked v2.0 is also going to be released very soon, plus a potential mainnet version too.

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:

• [01:10] Animoca Brands and Moca Foundation have announced Moca Chain.
• [01:35] Originally this was the Mocaverse NFT collection, which has become Moca Network.
• [06:25] They've tried to build a reputation and privacy-focused ID system. Not clear who's using it.
• [12:25] The issue is you have to build something 10x better and still people won't use it.
• [17:59] Nexon has launched a Credit Level system to reduce botting in MapleStory N.
• [26:43] Wildcard will be launching on Steam in October 2025.
• [30:42] The project's longterm success is more about the Thousands streaming platform, however.
• [32:19] Startup Spekter Games has raised $5M. Its first game is Telegram roguelite Spekter Agency.
• [37:58] The Sandbox is partnering with Cirque du Soleil for the forthcoming Alpha Season 6.