Games

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