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Web3 Gamer – Cointelegraph Magazine

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As the year winds down, every gaming company and its dog are dropping year-in-review reports. A recent report from blockchain gaming accelerator Game7 suggests that many game developers had an enforced nap instead of pumping out new games. This year, just 223 Web3 games were launched, a 65% drop from the 640 games started in 2022 and even more distant from the 811 games that got going in 2021. Web3 game releases per year (Game7) So what’s the deal with the sudden nosedive in output? Well, the optimistic answer is…

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Web 3 Gamer – Cointelegraph Magazine

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GTA and CoD veterans’ new studio collabs with Immutable Web3 gaming ecosystem Immutable is helping Random Games join the blockchain gaming world. The studio was founded by veteran developers and storytellers from famous franchises, including Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, Fortnite, Batman, Star Trek, The Walking Dead, Star Wars and South Park. The collaboration centers around Unioverse, a Web3 sci-fi franchise spanning multiple mediums. Random Games plans to create a platform offering high-quality assets for game creation without royalty fees. The Unioverse community will be encouraged to produce their…

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Elon Musk is a streamer? The social media website X, formerly known as Twitter, hosted its first gaming stream — a 50-minute-long Diablo 4 gameplay — on October 6. The stream, which has over 42 million views at the time of writing, involved X owner Elon Musk playing Blizzard Entertainment’s latest title and answering questions from viewers. The stream happened as a test of X’s new streaming feature, as Musk wanted to see if the audio sounded normal, if the image looked reasonably good and whether the comments were working.…

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GTA owner joins Web3, Bitcoin casino, Sunflower Land review: Web3 Gamer

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Grand Theft Auto owner enters Web3 via mobile gaming arm Fun fact: mobile gaming giant Zynga is owned by Take-Two Interactive, the same company that also owns Rockstar Games, which is behind ultra-popular video game series like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption and NBA 2K. Now Zynga is making its Web3 debut with a new franchise. Best known for its FarmVille series, Zynga has created an offshoot studio called Zynga Web3 (or ZW3) and announced Sugartown. It’s a cross-media world that will be more like a Web3 gaming platform…

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Blockchain gaming needs its own ‘EVO Moment 37’? While the Web3 gaming ecosystem is still trying to find its footing in the mainstream gaming world, a key element missing from almost all the Web3 titles is inspiration. To achieve a broader audience, Web3 gaming needs a “wow” moment to go viral and into the records of gaming history. Web3 gaming studios are falling into the same trap that many of their traditional predecessors fell into: Better visuals, more rewards and a larger cast of characters. Sure, these are some vital…

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Crypto Thief, Sega blockchain game, AI games rights fight — Web3 Gamer – Cointelegraph Magazine

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Valve allows AI content on Steam Game developers can use AI-generated content in games listed on Steam, but only if it isn’t generated using copyright-infringing content. That’s the official line from Valve, the creator of game publishing platform Steam, which it made in response to a June Reddit post that’s been making the rounds about a developer who had his game rejected by Steam for using AI. Developer Artoonu, who specializes in creating NSFW games (think furries and hentai), said the company asked him to “affirmatively confirm that you own…

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Web3 Gamer – Cointelegraph Magazine

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Our biweekly roundup for the Web3 gaming community, featuring news, reviews and the latest on new releases. Storybook Brawl shuts down servers Months after the spectacular collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire, the casualties keep coming.  Good Luck Games, the creators of Storybook Brawl – reportedly disgraced FTX CEO Bankman-Fried’s second-favorite game after League of Legends – took down its servers on May 1. The team said it had explored different options to continue, and unfortunately, there was no path forward. Originally a non-crypto game that launched on Steam in…

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