Games


Opinion

Play-to-Earn Games Are Missing the Point. Here’s How to Fix Them

A more sustainable, impactful P2E ecosystem must be free, fair, transparent and purposefully decentralized.

Gaming (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Opinion

Skyweaver Is a Great Blockchain Game, and an OK Regular Game

The recently released trading card game on Polygon may struggle to attract a broad audience.

GAME ON: In Skyweaver, players battle for the chance to win digital cards that can be traded on Ethereum. (Credit: Horizon Games)

Tech

NFT Trading Card Game Skyweaver Wraps Yearslong Tech Build With Public Launch

The Polygon-based Skyweaver is emerging from private beta with a strong user base.

GAME ON: In Skyweaver, players battle for the chance to win digital cards that can be traded on Ethereum. (Credit: Horizon Games)

Markets

Thetan Arena Battles Axie Infinity in ‘Play-to-Earn’

The games are completely different, but Thetan Arena is joining Axie Infinity in the hunt for crypto-friendly players when there are still scant offerings in the “play-to-earn” space.

Image pulled from Thetan Arena's website. (Thetan Arena, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Axie Infinity Nears 2M Daily Active Users as Creator Raises $152M Series B

The popular play-to-earn game has generated close to $2.3 billion in total sales volume since it was launched in 2018.

Axies from the play-to-earn game Axie Infinity.

Finance

Play-to-Earn Giant Axie Infinity’s Revenue Tanked 40% in September

The company’s monthly revenue was second only to Ethereum’s $830 million among blockchain-based apps, Token Terminal data show.

Axie Infinity land

Markets

Zed Run Developer VHS Raises $20M in Funding Round Led by TCG

The Australian company, founded in 2018, has developed a blockchain-based, virtual horse-racing game called Zed Run.

horse, race

Finance

Blockchain Games That Gamers Want to Win

Gamers want a great game more than anything else, and crypto hasn't delivered a great game yet.

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Finance

NFT Game Axie Infinity Raises $860K in Governance Token Sale

A new game mode will also be launching on the platform in early 2021, where players can own pieces of land and farm governance tokens.

Axie's upcoming land system

Tech

CryptoWars Leaves Loom Sidechain in Pivot to 'Play-to-Earn,' Aka Betting

CryptoWars founder Matias Nisenson is changing things up: "No decent game can run nowadays fully on-chain, even though that was our gaming utopia."

After signs of success on its first iteration, the team behind CryptoWars is changing things up. (Credit: Experimental)

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