Blockchain gaming weekly roundup: 13th June
Welcome to our weekly roundup where we contextualize the recent news in blockchain games.
13th June
While Malcolm Gladwell’s famous statement “ten thousand…
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Good Blockchain Gaming News: MapleStory N’s most expensive NFT sells for $13,451
With many blockchain games struggling with product-market-fit and funding, it's easy to get discouraged.
But our handy roundup of blockchain game successes will…
Game of the Week: FIFA Rivals
13th May: FIFA Rivals
Mythical Games' latest official sports game is now live through the app stores but FIFA Rivals is a very different game to NFL Rivals.
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Key trends in focus at Pocket Gamer Connects Summit Shanghai
Hitting China with our brand new Pocket Gamer Connects Shanghai Summit on30th July, right ahead of the biggest games event in the region ChinaJoy, we’re excited to…
Magic Eden partners with Sequence to streamline marketplace creation and liquidity
NFT marketplace Magic Eden is the latest blockchain ecosystem to sign a strategic partnership with open source development platform Sequence.
Other companies…
WHTW? EVE Frontier’s new era and FIFA Rivals goes live
What's happening in the world of blockchain gaming?
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Wednesday 11th June:
CCP Games' fully onchain PC MMOG EVE Frontier is leaving…
Sony launches Soneium For All incubator for games and apps
Together with partners Astar Network and Startale Cloud Services, Sony's blockchain arm SBSL has launched a new incubator program to boost the development of games…
Nominate the best mobile blockchain game for Mobile Games Awards 2025
Pocket Gamer's Mobile Games Awards are back for another year, and alongside the 22 other categories is the one we really care about - Best Use of Blockchain.
Of…
Super Champs kicks off 7.5 million CHAMP tournament
Joyride Games’ Super Champs ecosystem is launching its largest prize tournament to-date.
Featuring 7.5 million CHAMP tokens - currently worth around $45,000 -…
Dated: Claynosaurz’s Popkins mint, 29th May
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Opti Games partners with Sequence ahead of Sparkball launch
Preparing for its Sparkball season zero launch, US developer Opti Games has partnered with web3 wallet solution and gaming stack Sequence.
Running on the Monad…
Wemade’s Wemix Pay solution goes live in Mir4
Wemade has integrated its web3 payment solution Wemix Pay into Mir4.
Remaining the most popular web3-enabled game from Wemade, although with strong competition…
Line Next’s Mini Dapp platform gets Bitget Wallet support
Line's web3 arm Line Next has integrated Bitget Wallet in its LINE-based mini dapp platform.
The recent software update enables users of the messenger app to…
Beam expands to ‘more than gaming’
From an Axie Infinity guild founded in 2021 into a gaming investment DAO (Merit Circle) to core contributor behind the Beam gaming blockchain; in case Beam hadn’t…
Bright Star closes down MMORPG Ember Sword due to insufficient funding
Claiming it has failed to raise sufficient funding, Immutable-based MMORPG Ember Sword is the next web3 game to shut down with immediate effect.
Danish…
Animoca invests in Astar to drive web3 adoption via Sony’s Soneium
Animoca Brands has made a strategic investment into Astar Network, an ecosystem looking to bring Japanese and Asian entertainment and gaming culture onchain.
The…
Sky Mavis’ Aleksander Larsen blames ‘the wrong games and the wrong…
Due to increasing market pressure, a growing number of web3 game developers have found themselves unable to raise additional funding, announcing they’re either…
UNKJD becomes Lineup Games as it expands into multi-game ecosystem
So far, 2025 has come with significant changes to the web3 gaming sector, not least evident in the number of studios recently announcing they are closing down.…
How Animoca Brands will grow in the Middle East and beyond
Blockchain, gaming, and their ultimate merger web3 gaming, are all industries experiencing significant growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Key…
Blast Royale and Tatsumeeko: Lumina Fates closing down
After the recent news of 9 Lives Interactive shutting down Nyan Heroes, First Light Games has now announced via X that it's discontinuing development of mobile…