
A weekly newsletter containing a curated list of the weekโs most notable Web 3 gaming reports, podcasts, events, quotes and threads for you to catch up on ๐
๐ Reports / Research / Essays
Ancient 8: Polygon is a game changer for Web3 Gaming & NFTs

Messari: Analyzing the Market Potential of Fully On-chain Games

Frostlam (Qiming VC): Unleasing the Secrets to GameFi's Success
A 20-year journey of Open Economic Gaming Mastery

DeFrag DAO: Knights of the Ether Research Report

David Amor (Playmint): Digital Physics in On-Chain Games

Mint Ventures: Limit Break and its DigiDaigaku NFTs are a true Paradigm Shift in Web3 Gaming
Balthazar DAO - NFT marketplace update (Feb 2023)

๐ฌ Podcasts / AMAs / Watches+
FOGcast #33 โ NFT Marketplace Drama, Creator Royalties & The Future of Game Monetization

FOGcast #34 โ Bitcoin NFTs, CSGOs Success & Gaming NFTs v2.0

Navik โ Manish Agarwal (IndiGG): Bringing Web3 Gaming to India

๐ Notes / Summaries
Rich Cabrera (Ready Player DAO) โ CS:GO GDC 2014 Talk Summary
๐งตThreads
Ben (Crypto.com) โ Reflections on the Web3 Gaming Thesis and how has it evolved from 2021 to now
A ZEUS โ Quick thread on Avalon raising $13m to build an interoperable digital universe
Degen Wars โ Basic Gameplay Thread
Reboot GG โ All about Reboot.gg
Andrew Chen (a16z) โ Why its going to be hard for AI startups to break into the gaming industry
ggQuest โ Thread about ggQuest & its Progression System
Kalos (Parallel) โ ETH Denver Gaming Takeaways
Sachi Kamiya (Polygon) โ Why am I bullish on Web3 Gaming
Simon (Mighty Bear Games) โ What's next for projects that didn't get to raise enough
Makai Witch (Otaku Guild) โ Web3 Gaming WL Tier List
Kartoha (Metaguild) โ 5 Decks to play around with in Parallel
Recloner โ ๐งต on Mithraeum's 1st Autonomous-Algorithmic Wipe
lordOfAFew (Loot Realms) โ On chain gaming teams are realizing the limits of bare EVM / solidity
Vulcan Forged โ New Chapter for Vulcan as Vulcan Studios Rebrands
ZTX Financial District โ An introduction to the metaverse that Zepeto & Jump are creating
Mystis Game โ Intro to Mystis, an on-chain fighting game on StarkNet
Mystic Games โ Intro to Mystic Games & their Web3 Roguelite ARPG
Wale.Swoosh (Azuki) โ Amazon is building an NFT Marketplace
๐ฐ News / Updates / Action Items

๐ Newly Spotted Projects

Block Born Studio โ No info yet โ more
Spectarium โ A Nordic, fantasy world RPG โ more
Bor3d Games โ Game Publisher & Studio by Kyler Frisbee (w/ Robin Chan, Matt Sorg & Justin Kan as Advisors) โ more
Galaxy Throne โ Fully on-chain Sci-Fi Strategy Building Game (Won 1st in TRON Hackathon: GameFi Track) โ more
Dragon Crossing โ Web3 RPG launching in May 2023 โ more
Trudan Studios โ Game studio developing KuroroBeast on Arbitrum โ more
Avalon โ Game Studioย building an interoperable digital MMORPG (Recently raised $13m) โ more
Starfall Gates โ Project related to the Web3 MOBA, Starfall Arena โ more
ZTX Official โ Metaverse being built by Zepeto & Jump โ more
Momometaverse โ NFT Metaverse Project โ more
Magic Block โ Web3 studio building on-chain mobile games โ more
Garbles Fun โ Mobile game that cleans up the planet (Developed by Magic Block) โ more
DCL Studios โ Studio for Decentraland โ more
Reboot GG โ Reboot GG is a decentralized, scalable framework for skill-based games that rewards players & developers โ more
Waifu Force โ Waifu Force is a AAAAA multiplayer shooter powered by Worlds Org & Unreal Engine 5 โ more
Spac3 GG โ Space 3 is a Web 3 gaming loyalty platform being developed by Ancient 8 โ more

Dark Bright Games โ Dark Bright Games is a game studio launched by Treasure DAO that is developing Smolville โ more
Starknet Gaming โ Gaming on Starknet (Not much info yet) โ more
Webe Studio โ Web3 Metaverse gaming studio โ more
Chess Olympiads โ On chain Chess โ more
Shadow War Games โ Hero-based web3 hybrid-action title being developed by Patriots Division โ more
Patriots PMC โ Studio developing Shadow War Game โ more
Bisonic Games โ Game Studio behind Runiverse โ more
Runes TCG โ Runiverse-themed Trading Card Game (TCG) โ more
Warped Canto โ Fully onchain PvP MMO RTS on Canto โ more
Kamigotchi World โ Web3 Pet Idle game by Asphodel Labs on Canto โ more
Fun Dream Games โ Istanbul based game studio developing web3 mobile games โ more
Blink Moon Games โ Indie game studio building for cloud gaming โ more
Echoplus Studio โ Game studio building Code Sekaiย โ more
Code Sekai โ Anime Universe being developed by Echo Plus Studio โ more
Aradena Warrior โ Trading Card Game (TCG) being developed by Litoja Labs โ more
L1523Kick Games โ Russian indie gaming studio building Worldshards (Sandbox RPG) โ more
๐จ๏ธ Quotable Quotes
Mitch Lasky (Benchmark) โ The laziest VC move in games is "pedigree chasing"
Jon (Play Ember) โ Web3 UA is a billion $ opportunity for whomever cracks it
Tommy Ngo (Zynga) โ Higher user demand than product supply makes Web3 gaming promising. Esp since there's no playbook yet.
Derek Lau (Guild of Guardian) โ We are now seeing Web2 gamers onboarded to NFTs, NOT because of good gameplay, but because of the idea of playing for profit
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