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Alien Worlds Still Averages 90,000 Daily Accounts. Here's What's Actually Happening Inside.
Alien Worlds maintained over 90,000 daily active accounts through 2025 while quietly building a community-driven game ecosystem. Multiple third-party games, DAO governance, and Galactic Hubs grants make it one of Web3's most unusual success stories.
TLM$0.0010-2.4%Editorial·Aavegotchi Ditches Polygon for Base: Pixelcraft's Biggest Bet Since the Gotchiverse
Aavegotchi completed its full migration from Polygon to Coinbase's Base, launched Rarity Farming Season 11, and is shipping three new games in 2026. The chain switch is the project's most consequential decision in years.
GHST$0.0606+1.1%Editorial·The SEC and CFTC Finally Classified Crypto Tokens: Here's What It Means for Gaming
The landmark SEC-CFTC joint interpretation creates a five-part token taxonomy and directly addresses gaming tokens. For Web3 game studios, the regulatory fog is finally lifting, but what's visible isn't all good news.
The Sandbox Goes Mobile with Unreal Engine: Its Biggest Pivot Yet
The Sandbox NEXT is a mobile battle royale on Unreal Engine, a dramatic shift from the platform's voxel roots. It's either the smartest move in Web3 gaming or a sign that the original vision wasn't enough.
SAND$0.0534+2.5%Editorial·Pudgy World Doesn't Feel Like Crypto, And That's the Whole Point
Pudgy Penguins launched Pudgy World and CoinDesk called it their 'Club Penguin moment.' The game deliberately hides its blockchain layer, and that design philosophy may be the template for every Web3 game that wants mainstream adoption.
Portal 2.0 Pivots to AI-Native Gaming: Is This Web3's Next Chapter or a Retreat?
Portal relaunched as an AI-native game creation platform under a former Assassin's Creed developer. The pivot from Web3 gaming platform to AI game-building tools is either visionary timing or a sign that 'Web3 gaming platform' was never a viable category.
PORTAL$0.0121-4.6%Editorial·Parallel TCG's Haven Expansion Bets Big on Scarcity: Is Less Really More?
Parallel's new Haven expansion ships 75% fewer cards than its predecessor. In a market littered with over-minted NFT collections, the deliberate scarcity play is bold, but it only works if the gameplay keeps players coming back.
PRIME$0.2645-3.8%Editorial·Immutable Completes Its Chain Merge, And Web3 Gaming Finally Gets a Single Front Door
Immutable merged its two competing chains into one. It's a technical milestone, but the bigger story is what it reveals about why fragmentation nearly killed Web3 gaming.
IMX$0.1475+2.3%Editorial·GAMEE's Gold Fest and the Rise of Telegram Gaming: Web3's Stealth Onramp
GAMEE just launched the largest prize pool event in Telegram gaming history, $500K in gold-backed tokens. But the real story isn't the prizes. It's that Telegram's 950 million users are becoming the biggest crypto onramp that nobody in traditional Web3 gaming is talking about.
Axie Infinity's Co-Founder Steps Back: End of an Era for Play-to-Earn
Aleksander Larsen, the co-founder who became the public face of play-to-earn gaming, is stepping away from day-to-day operations. His departure is a bookend on the chapter that defined, and nearly destroyed, Web3 gaming.
AXS$0.9860+2.9%Editorial·Animoca Brands' $300M Fund: Why Smart Money Is Still Betting on Web3 Gaming
Animoca Brands closes a $300M gaming fund backed by Temasek and Sequoia, even as the company itself quietly diversifies away from pure gaming. The mixed signal tells us everything about where Web3 gaming actually stands.
93% of Web3 Games Failed: What the Survivors Got Right
A new report by trading firm Caladan confirms the scale of Web3 gaming's collapse, but the real story is what separates the projects still standing from the 300+ that shut down.
YGG$0.0260+3.1%Editorial·NFT Panda: World of Fantasy – What Happened to This WAX Blockchain Game
NFT Panda: World of Fantasy, the WAX-based idle RPG, saw declining activity through 2023-2024 after its alpha stage showed promise. Here's what happened.
NFT Panda's Token Strategy – How the WAX Game's BAM Economy Worked
NFT Panda: World of Fantasy used BAM tokens for upgrades and crafting on WAX blockchain. The game's activity declined through 2023 as the P2E market contracted.
Nyan Heroes Shuts Down After $11M Raise and 1 Million Playtesters, NYAN Token Collapses 99%
9 Lives Interactive has shut down Nyan Heroes, the Solana-based cat mech hero shooter that raised $11 million and attracted over one million playtesters. The closure adds to a growing list of web3 games that built real communities but could not outlast a funding drought.
Eigen Layer Projects Lock In More Ethereum LSTs, Can They Support That Value?
Eigen Layer is growing its influence, now in the early stages of distributing the new Eigen token.
Solana Meme Tokens: What’s Behind the New Boom of Crypto Assets?
Meme tokens can easily climb to all-time peaks, but get abandoned for the next hot meme.
Sunflower Land Game Now Ready With Roadmap for 2024 Updates
Sunflower Land is now in the top 31 spot for all NFT and Web3 games as it moves away from the need of constant on-chain transactions.
SFL$0.0416-1.8%Editorial·February 2024 Searches fo Web3: Searches Return to Bitcoin, but Growth May Be Around the Corner
Web3 is slightly trending in February 2024, on the back of a wider return of crypto trading.
Web3 in 2024: How the Bitcoin ETF Launch Will Affect DeFi, Gaming, Trading and More
The approval of 11 BTC-based ETF products may draw in up to $100B yearly inflows, according to Reuters.
Bull Market, NFT Airdrops and Growing Value: Solana Predictions for 2024
Solana aims to rebuild its ecosystem after the crash of 2022, which wiped out value locked.
Web3 App Vulnerabilities: Ledger Users Need Update to Avoid Malicious Code Exploit
The potential hack arrives at a time of growing token and coin activity after a market recovery.
Will Games, Tokens and NFT Recover: Top 5 Trends to Expect from Web3 in 2024
Web3 is gaining users with the potential for new marketing campaigns, airdrops and NFT launches.
Illuvium Plans New PvP Beta Release for November 28
Illuvium is adding another step to its growth, while also onboarding more players to its closed beta. From…
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