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Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:

• [0:30] The Sandbox's Alpha 5 Season is now live with Jurassic World being the lead brand.
• [3:27] Ultra has raised $12 million, with more expected later in 2025.
• [3:57] Jon's been talking to the new CEO Gus van Rijckevorsel about his vision for the company.
• [7:05] How this funding will be used to generate momentum for the future funding.
• [9:38] Three tokens have launched this week. All of them are performing badly.
• [12:22] Immortal Rising 2's IMT token is down 74%. It ran a long airdrop campaign but lack utility.
• [13:09] At present, the only thing a token will do is drop in price, because of bad market sentiment.
• [14:15] Anyone who gets a free token, the only sensible thing is to sell it straight away.
• [15:17] GUN token was higher profile and more anticipated but is down 61%.
• [16:25] A controversy was GUN went live via Binance Launchpad so wasn't distributed to gamers.
• [18:30] RavenQuest's QUEST token also went live; down 25%.
• [19:35] How does this compared to February 2024 when the MAVIA token successfully went live?

• [24:52] 99.99% of blockchain games will fail because they can't get anyone to value their assets.
• [25:09] One strategy would be to only let people buy your game token from within the game.
• [25:44] Forgotten Runiverse will be adopting Pixels' PIXEL as its game token.
• [29:55] We need to educate gamers to spend tokens on in-game assets, not HODL them.
• [32:30] Jenny's Game of the Week is ONE Fight Arena.