Investors continue to invest in blockchain. The DappRadar platform, together with the Blockchain Games Alliance, estimated that in the first three months of 2023, the volume of investments in games with blockchain and NFT amounted to $ 739 million. This is 12.95% more than a quarter earlier.

There is a decline in the mobile blockchain games market. Analysts from Sensor Tower calculated that by the end of 2022, the revenue of such titles with IAP in Google Play and the App Store fell by 13.9% year-on—year – this is the first drop in five years.

Jason Fung has left the post of head of the TikTok gaming division to found his own blockchain startup Meta0. The company will create a protocol for NFT games with support for different networks.

Polium has introduced “the world’s first console for Web3 games”. It is equipped with a button for instant access to the crypto wallet. However, the device was criticized online.

Summoners Arena is a Vietnamese RPG based on blockchain, which managed to attract the attention of investors. As part of the seed round, its authors raised $3 million. The general director of Krafton also invested his funds in the project.The developers announced the completion of the round in their blog on February 11.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has released a report “Cryptocurrencies: Trends, risks, measures“. It proposes to prohibit both any operations with cryptocurrency and mining as such.

As one of the advantages of gaming NFT, the concept of transferring such items between different titles is often mentioned. Most often, people who are far from the industry talk about this. Developer and gaming consultant Rami Ismail (Rami Ismail), using the example of creating a simple playing cube, explained why such an idea is basically doomed to failure.

The story about the development of the Doom port for the 3DO console has begun to gain popularity again on the web. The person who bought the rights was sure that it was enough to simply copy the files from the PC version, and new weapons could be added simply in the form of pictures. Now this story is being compared to people’s fantasies about transferring NFT items between different games.

Swedish publisher with Russian roots G5 Entertainment announced an investment in Uplandme Inc. The authors of the Upland blockchain game, in which you can buy virtual real estate, will receive $ 2 million.In total, G5 Entertainment acquired 0.7% of the shares of Uplandme Inc.

The other day, Peter Molyneux announced the Legacy blockchain game. Nothing is really known about the project yet, but the possibility of buying virtual land in the form of NFT has already attracted the first customers. In three days, Molineux Studio 22cans managed to sell digital plots worth £40 million ($53 million).What is Legacy?

Kickstarter has announced plans to create a “decentralized future” for its platform. Next year it will switch to the blockchain protocol. The company’s decision was criticized by many indie developers, promising to switch to other crowdfunding platforms.Kickstarter told about its plans on the official website.

Ethan Levy, executive producer of N3TWORK, is confident in the bright future of blockchain games. In a large column for the Deconstructor of Fun blog, he explained how the concept of digital ownership can change the relationship between developers and users, as well as solve key problems of the gaming economy. The main points from the material are in our retelling.

The sphere of blockchain games continues to attract investors. Forte startup immediately invested $ 725 million, which the company will spend on the development of its own platform. With its help, developers will be able to integrate blockchain technologies and related services into their video games.Image: Forte

Polygon has gained fame as an Ethereum scaling platform. Now the company has decided to support blockchain games. To do this, she opened a gaming division and established a special fund for developers in the amount of $ 100 million.The opening of Polygon Studios became known on July 19.

The International Association of Game Developers (IGDA) has issued a statement on the use of blockchain by gaming companies. Experts called for reducing the use of NFT and doing other ways that require less energy and do not have as much impact on the environment.IGDA published a statement last week, but the network has only noticed it now.

In a little more than a year, the valuation of Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands has grown tenfold to $1 billion. The co-founder of the company Yat Siu (Yat Siu) told in an interview with the South China Morning Post how the development in the field of blockchain and NFT helped to achieve explosive growth.

A new “unicorn” has appeared on the NFT gaming market – Animoca Brands, which today specializes in blockchain games and the release of its own tokens. The Hong Kong-based company has attracted investments of $88 million, based on an estimate of $1 billion.Animoca Brands announced this today on its official website.

In a recent study, Vorhaus Advisors analysts asked the question: how would users react to the fact that in—game purchases from one game could be moved to another or even sold to other gamers? As it turned out, 64% of American players were interested in such mechanics at once.

There is also a place for card games on the blockchain market. This is evidenced by the successful completion of the Immutable series “A”. The studio invested $15 million in the new project.