In a short video ad for its Web3 platform, Nike’s logo is shown.The logo for SWOOSH is right next to the logos for Epic Games’ games Unreal Engine and Fortnite. Nike, a company that makes shoes and clothes, has hinted that it may soon drop a set of non-transferable sneaker tokens in Epic Games’s famous online game Fortnite. According to Active Player, more than 242.9 million people have been playing Fortnite in the last 30 days. This could be a big chance for traditional gamers to start using Web3. Great catch with the @dotSWOOSH reference. @FortniteGame integration would be the biggest thi ..read more

What is the Metaverse? Using the Metaverse’s tokens, users may become co-owners of the peer-to-peer digital environment known as the Metaverse. Using the Metaverse, people may add additional value, relationships, and chances to their actual life. The area is adaptable and may be used for anything where connection and community produce value, including networking, business, communications, the arts, and education, in addition to gamification. A user experience with little or no barriers to interoperability across games, economy, digital assets, art, and education is made feasible by the Metaver ..read more

Axie Infinity (AXS), a popular blockchain-based online video game, has reported a significant decrease in participants over the previous several months. The game’s popularity fell below the level recorded for January 2021, with an average of 701,000 unique players per month during the last 30 days. Between September 2022 and September 2021, the game based on non-fungible tokens (NFT) lost more than 62% of its average monthly unique players, falling from 1,955,000 to 739,000. The most recent results indicate the significant effect the continuous crypto market decline has had on the game. Axie ..read more

Could a new GameFi project AniFi World wake the NFT game trend back in the spotlight again?  After the project opened initial DEX offering (IDO) for public sale, it sold out within two hours, totaling 210,000 BUSD ($210,000), reflecting that even In times of market turmoil, there are still some NFT games that have attracted great interest from investors. AniFi World’s IDO fundraiser yesterday was the launch of coins via Gempad, which the platform has dubbed the AniFi World project as a Diamond Tier NFT game project. The project has also received KYC identity verification and h ..read more

Xterio to Focus on High Quality Free-to-Play Games Building Path for True Player Ownership. Xterio, on a mission to develop, publish and distribute high-quality mobile and Web3 games, has raised $40M funding led by FunPlus, Makers Fund, FTX Ventures, and XPLA with notable participation from HashKey, Foresight Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Matrix Partners and Animoca Brands. The platform, helmed by game executives from FunPlus, Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard, Krafton, Jam City, NetEase and other top games brands, brings together experience from leading companies across technol ..read more

Web3 game studio and publisher will exhibit the playable demo of its first major title, a cyberpunk MMORPG, amid mainstream adoption drive. Red Door Digital, the Web3-ready game studio and publisher, today announced it will unveil the playable demo for its first major game title Reign of Terror at Gamescom 2022 in Cologne, Europe ’s largest gaming convention. Red Door Digital will exhibit in the B2B section of the event at the Blockchain Game Alliance ’s booth, and welcomes all visitors to experience and play the demo in person at Hall 2.1 Sta ..read more

Blockchain games and Metaverse projects seem to be coping with the bear market a lot better than other niches of the market. The bear market weeds out unnecessary frills and enables legitimate projects to stand out but also cripples portfolios of investors, both big and small. The ongoing market conditions are no different. But one vertical that market participants remain bullish on is – blockchain games and metaverse projects. Winner in Bear Market According to DappRadar’s report, blockchain games have sidestepped the ensuing bear market and instead ramped up their count by 9 ..read more

The CEO blamed some media outlets for focusing only on speculations while ignoring the achievements reached by his firm months after the $620m Ronin hack. Trung Nguyen – Co-Founder and CEO of Axie Infinity – said the accusations against him of being engaged in insider trading are “baseless and false.” However, he admitted transferring $3 million worth of AXS to “ensure that short-sellers would not be able to front-run the news.” In March this year, Ronin Bridge – an Ethereum sidechain built for the popular blockchain-based game Axie Infinity – became the victim of one of the largest ..read more

Joyride Games, Inc., a Web3 game publishing platform designed to build, launch and operate blockchain-powered games, today announced the launch of its casual games platform on Flow, the industry-leading blockchain designed to support consumer-scale decentralized applications. Joyride’s first casual mainstream game that brings the power of games on Web3 to everyone is Solitaire Blitz, racking up >500,000 active users in its first four weeks after launch, becoming a Top 10 blockchain game overall by volume and users and the top game on the Flow blockchain according to DappRadar. Joyride ..read more

Otherside, the much-anticipated metaverse gaming platform from the creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, is open for business – at least for the owners of a land plot. On Saturday, the Yuga Labs-developed game invited 4,300 players—so-called “Voyagers”—for a first-look tech demo and tour of the immersive, ape avatar-navigated online platform. All Otherside players will be required to embark on or view one of these “First Trips” to be able to participate in the game, which has still not yet fully debuted. All 4,300 players who took part in yesterday’s digital excursion to the “Biogenic Sw ..read more