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GamifiedGamified$LOUDIO Controversy | Web3 single player? | Simplified #72$LOUD is dumping HARDExplain like I’m 5 - why are companies buying BTC and ETH? Is there any hope for gaming tokens?New Game Mode: Thread or Dead - Kate Irwin says STOP BUILDING MULTIPLAYERPanel Picks - 1 token to go higher, 1 token to go lowerThis week's panelists include:- Phin from Abstract- Jonah Blake from RealAgencyHQ- Chuckstock (Charlie Blackstock) from Farcade- Dub from Sparkball and GlitterCloud Solutions...2025-06-021h 25GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #58 | Web3 Gaming | Avax vs Solana | LARPing chains MEME COINS ARE RUNNING ON AVAX - Is Avax season for real? How do you cut through the gaming chain noise and what are you looking for when placing bets on gaming ecosystems? Farm 1 and Fade 1 - Vibes versus GigaverseToday's panelists on your weekly Podcast for everything Web3 gaming: Jordan Feinstein - @JordanEureka_ Slayer - @SlayerXgg Jerry Singer - @TGIFresco Nick Greenawalt - @motionbynick Jonah Blake - @RealJonahBlake Falcore - @iFalcore Crypto Gorilla - @CryptoGorillaYT Dub - @uhhdub...and your regular show hosts:...2025-02-181h 31GamifiedGamifiedGamified #91 | OTG anti-cheats | Netflix shuts down What’s the word for Netflix shutting down its AAA studio before they even launch a single game? OTG ups its anti-cheat and adds a bounty program - What are the odds this works? Crack the Code - Pokemon Pocket launching today - Breaking down some potential approaches that could work. Parallel are hosting a 250k esports tournament in Vegas - Bullish or Bullshit? GAM3S.GG awards! Who exceeded your expectations in 2024? 2024-10-302h 00GamifiedGamifiedIndie vs AAA | Top 5 Gaming Creators | Simplified #44 Moonray lands PS5 release Indie vs AAA - going into 2025 which web3 assets do you expect to perform the best and which games do you expect to obtain the most players? TOKENOMICS RED FLAGS Who’s on your shortlist for content creator of the year in 2024? 2024-10-281h 37GamifiedGamifiedSPECIAL - Can Telegram Monetize?We gathered the best of telegram gaming to discuss whether this platform is actually sustainable for games or if it's a dying fad2024-10-251h 14GamifiedGamifiedGamified #90 | Riftstorm hits #1 | Poker in Web3 Bigger Deal? - Jauwn finally gives a positive Web3 game review for OTG, or Riftstorm hits #1 trending free game on Steam Bullish or Bullshit - Poker platforms in Web3 - what’s the USP here? Animoca CEO, Robby Yung, says every blockchain project will “have a Telegram Complement” - Agree or Disagree? What's the Word for Sonium’s incubator program - 32 projects, 10 are games - is it a Big Deal, Little Deal or No Deal? 2024-10-242h 04GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #43 | Top 5 Games | Faraway's Plan Faraway announces Fchain on AVAX for their 9 games including Yuga IP Who do you think might be able to knock the current top 5 gaming coins off the podium whether it’s a pre-existing or future token? What other web3 games do you expect to follow in the footsteps of OTG? Give another game a shoutout who you think has been crushing it in the last few weeks or months 2024-10-211h 26GamifiedGamifiedGamified #89 | The OTG Token Debate | Azra Raises $42m What's the Word for an 89 minute version of Hamlet being filmed in GTA 5? Gabe Leydon says the OFF THE GRID moment is already bigger than the Axie moment - do you agree? Azra Games raises 42.7m series A funding - bullish or bullshit? MAYG launches $UNCHI meme token 2024-10-161h 29GamifiedGamifiedInvest in OFF THE GRID?? | Simplified #42 Off The Grid - 5.5 million wallets, 50+ million transactions, almost 150k concurrent viewers on twitch at one point. What does this actually mean? Off The Grid nodes - are they over or under valued? Contrasting Off The Grid with MAYG + more2024-10-151h 15GamifiedGamifiedGamified #88 | OFF THE GRID LAUNCHES!! | WoW x Crypto What’s the word for Blizzard and Netflix fumbling Overwatch, Diablo and WoW tv series? Grok says web3 gaming broke through with Off the Grid, do you agree? Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - cloud gaming keeps getting better and Nvidia GeForce Now let’s you play without a gaming pc for $10-$20 a month Market Wars’ WoW spinoff - Bullish or Bullshit? Meta Quest 3 now $299 - is the reduced pricing the answer to VR adoption? 2024-10-101h 54GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #41 | Xbox Web3 | MAYG Token Immutable Passport hits 3 million downloads Off the Grid Launches on Xbox Tier Lists in Web3 MAYG Launches with 800k FDV 77-bit announces a cyberpunk MMO battle royale all in browser 2024-10-071h 23GamifiedGamifiedGamified #87 | TGEs Tumble | Wildcard's Announcement Big Deal / Little Deal / No Deal? - Pudgy Penguin Arcade machines Fact or Fiction - You should not TGE in the current market Storytime - Paul Bettner’s new big announcement Avalanche launches $40m builder grants program 2024-10-032h 00GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #40 | Chain Games | Hamster Kombat Flops Simplifying User Acquisition in web3 Are you still looking at games based on ecosystem/chain or are you strictly looking for good games? Dr Disrespect claims “he has a feeling he will be back” at Midnight Society soon Hamster Kombat down 30% after launch, currently around $500m market cap - What does this tell you about Telegram games and the future of their coins being listed? 2024-09-301h 18GamifiedGamifiedGamified #86 | Parallel Expands | Ronin Incubates Bullish or Bullshit - Dookie Dash Unclogged Parallel unveils new 3d shooter using Avatar assets What would move you to purchase a gaming NFT or token in the current market? Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - Ronin incubates 7 new games 2024-09-262h 02GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #39 | Ronin's New Games | Dookie Dashes Dookie Dash is coming with another $1m tournament, what do you expect? Parallel’s new 3d shooter, will it affect $PRIME price? 7 new games coming to Ronin 2024-09-241h 26GamifiedGamifiedGamified #85 | Mass Adoption | Singapore Special Forgotten Runiverse open beta - What’s the word for another Ronin game doing great numbers early on, and where do you expect it to go from here? Catizen is dominating - is this the peak or is there promise of much more in Telegram gaming? Are we closer or further away from mass adoption? What side are you on? What’s the word for the hostage feature with proximity chat in Black Ops 6? Bullish or Bearish on Telegram games TGEs? What’s the word for AI agents creating civilization in Minecraft? Retro GameStops - Doomed or Destined? Gam3sgg articl...2024-09-191h 46GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #38 | GRAPES GOES | Live from Singapore!! Grapes has been sold - Bullish or Bullshit on their future? Crypto Kitties is now back with a telegram game - do you care? Binance listings for TON games - do we expect more telegram games to follow or will this open the doorway for more games in general to start getting listed again? CCP / Eve Frontiers is coming - do we think established web2 projects will play the speculative game at all, or is this going to be a more sustainable product? Flappy Bird is now a TG game - there have been countless clones of Flappy Bird but...2024-09-171h 23GamifiedGamifiedGamified #84 | Eve Online Expectations | Parallel vs Hearthstone Why do we love Pixel games in Web3? What’s the word - Crypto Unicorns major pivot Project Awakening - Predictions & Expectations - is it possible that Eve Online is the perfect fit for Web3? How to handle rival releases - should Spectre Divide rush to market before Deadlock or wait until some of the hype fades away? Storytime with Kohji - Parallel vs Hearthstone Gaming toxicity up from 68% to 74% - is it possible to reverse this trend, how would you attempt to do it? Top 5 games of August - dump one, add one 2024-09-122h 00GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #37 | $0-10k Gaming Challenge Friend.tech shuts down after generating 90 million dollars in protocol fees, 44 million of which went to the protocol Do you think the SuiPlay handheld gaming device can be a success and what are your expectations of its quality? You can only pick one play to airdrop campaign, which one do you pick and why? 0-10k challenge being done by gamers who are looking to airdrop farm 2024-09-101h 25GamifiedGamifiedGamified #83 | Illuvium FUD | Zynga's Gone | Concord Dies What’s the word for Zynga divesting from Sugartown? Big brain or big lame - MapleStory releases tokenomics as a “token-comic” Illuvium is currently on fire, and not in a good way - does this inferno mark the beginning of the end of their story or can they rise like a phoenix from the ashes? Bullish or Bullshit - Soneium seems to be jumping head first into Web3 as the title sponsor of Token 2049 New PlayStation game Concord is so bad it’s taken offline 2 weeks after release and Sony is offering full refunds 2024-09-051h 53GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #36 | The next Steam | Zynga leaves Web3 Are projects that are “building the next Steam” delusional? Sugartown gets bought out, Zynga and Take-Two leave Web3 + more2024-09-021h 36GamifiedGamifiedGamified #82 | Sony x Web3 | OpenSea Wells Notice Gamescom debrief - what games won? OpenSea receives a Wells notice from the SEC claiming that the NFTs on their platform are securities SOULBOUND is doing a Gamified SBT and the art is adorable - all you have to do to get one of these collectables is: Go to souldbound.gg Click on the custom link: https://soulbound.gg/quests/code_quest/463 Create an account and click "join my community" Enter code: gamified#82 Xterio's game pivots direction Big Deal / Little Deal / No Deal - Sony makes its new blockchain What's the Word? 'Kingmakers' secures a movie deal, 'Black Myth: Wukong...2024-08-311h 53GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #35 | Telegram's Future | Big Names = Good Games? Simplifying the future of TON gaming - Telegram games suck now, but what does this mean for the long term? Sony announces Soneium, their new L1 blockchain - why would Sony launch their own chain instead of going with an established one like Skale or Avalanche? Ex-Riot alumni have raised $450m for 25 different projects - is there any validity in the belief that previous success at a new studio = future success? + more2024-08-271h 26GamifiedGamifiedGamified #81 | Bornless Hiding Web3 | Roblox Acquisition For or Against - Crypto Startup Acquires a Popular 'Roblox' Stock Trading Game What’s the Word for ‘The Bornless’ asking everyone to avoid any mention of Web3, blockchain or crypto on IGN and game trailers on socials? 'Dimensionals' officially rugged Web3 - final thoughts? What’s the Word for ‘Monopoly Go’ surpassing 3B in revenue in under 18 months since launch? Would you rather choose a game with 10/10 gameplay and a 5/10 story OR a game with a 10/10 story and 5/10 gameplay? 2024-08-221h 57GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #34 | DIMENSIONALS LEAVES!This entire episode covered 'Dimensionals' leaving Web3 gaming. This was a heavy piece of news that dropped and we hope that getting to listen to the differing perspectives from our panelists helps to offer a diverse educational standpoint on the topic. We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week, enjoy!2024-08-191h 24GamifiedGamifiedGamified #80 | Fake Ads | Off The Grid hits PS5 | Deadrop Returns Big Deal / Little Deal / No Deal - Off The Grid Hits Playstation 5 The numbers are in, what’s your reaction to the first half of the Esports World Cup? What are the odds that Deadrop can pull off a launch by November sans Dr Disrespect? Fake Ads - Chad or Chump? What's the Word for everyone launching their own chain and it “being as easy as memecoins”? + more2024-08-151h 59GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #33 | Off The Grid | 100m mcap VS 30m | Digidaigaku Update Everyone is saying Off the Grid is 10/10 - does this or does this not mean it'll be a Web3 success? Which team are you taking a bet on - A project sitting at 100m+ market cap with less upside but more established OR a project sitting at 5-30m market cap with significantly more risk but significantly more upside? Digidaigaku update has arrived - Gabe has been building all along. What does this mean for the game itself? Crypto Gorilla says insider information doesn’t exist, just “information” and that it’s your job to find it. Do you agree with thi...2024-08-131h 25GamifiedGamifiedGamified #79 | Blizzard's AA Spinoff | Dumping Treasury | Top 5 What’s the word for Project Dragon from Yuga/Otherside? Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - Microsoft/Blizzard are opening a studio with the purpose of creating AA franchise spin offs Game Informer (from Gamestop) is shutting down after 30+ years Projects selling tokens from their treasury on the open market Top 5 games of July from GAM3S.GG. Dump one and add one + more2024-08-081h 49GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #32 | NFTs vs COINS after market dumps? Otherside’s “Project Dragon”, what is impressive about having this many concurrent users? With the market down bad, how does this look through the lens of Web3 gaming? NFTs vs COINS in the same game - why do you invest in which, especially during times when the market is down? 2024-08-061h 28GamifiedGamifiedGamified #78 | Do Gaming NFTs work? What's the word? Walmart and IKEA making real world jobs in Roblox? A staggering 56% of Gen Z gamers say they prioritize styling their virtual selves over their physical in real life appearance - Over / Under 75% by 2030? Chad or Chump? Stardew Valley CEO says "I will never charge money for a DLC or update for as long as I live." Crack the code - What is the best way to reward your player and holder base when it comes to airdrops? Change my mind - has the death of royalties from secondary trading killed gaming NFTs? 2024-08-012h 10GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #31 | Top 10 Gaming NFTs | Questing Platforms | CEX fatigue Is the Tier 1 CEX effect over? Over HALF the current market cap of $PIRATE is staked. Why would a team want this? How do questing platforms differentiate themselves and really make an impact on the market? Helika releases top performing gaming collections by volume over the last 30 days 2024-07-301h 23GamifiedGamifiedGamified #77 | Fortnite Blockchain | P2P2E | MAYG 40% Airdrop 2.2 million people willing to pay $100 to play College Football ‘25, 3 days early What’s the word for MAYG airdropping 40% of their token supply to gamers? Fact or Fiction - will we see a blockchain from Epic Games before 2030? Bullish or Bullshit - pay to play to earn What game would you love to see as a 90's style remake? 2024-07-251h 38GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #30 | Deadrop Returns | BAYC Bets | Mavia Explodes Deadrop update - are we seeing what we need to see from them in order to be excited? Otherside is introducing betting Heroes of Mavia hits 5 million downloads - what's happening here? Is there a common thread between winning NFTs? + more2024-07-231h 26GamifiedGamifiedGamified #76 | NFTs as Token Vouchers | RAID BOSS Castaways launching another game that’s web2 What’s the Word? - surge in “massage gun” sales as people use them to super charge their in-game tapping of TON games Bullish or Bullshit - NFTs as token vouchers. What’s an alternative utility you would actually pay for? RAID BOSS - Option 1: Mid-level gaming experience, web3 native team. Option 2: Highly experienced gaming team, inexperienced in web3 but web3 curious + more2024-07-181h 49GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #29 | $MOCA Reactions | MAYG Moves | HV-MTL integrates $MOCA launch reactions Shatterline integrates HV-MTL Digi Daigoneku - what's the potential investment thesis? Should we invest in games launching into the current market? MAYG moving to XAI and Forgotten Runiverse moving to Ronin - is this a big deal? 2024-07-161h 17GamifiedGamifiedGamified #75 | NFTs are BACK | Past Predictions What's the word for The Finals losing all hype and traction? NFTs aren't dead - according to Dapp Radar China vs USA monthly gamer spend Are co-op games king? Prediction reviews from previous episodes Voodoo is being sued for supposedly fixing in-game outcomes in their wagering games GAM3S.GG's top 5 games of June - Wanderers, The Beacon, Moonfrost, Shardbound and Pirate Nation + more2024-07-111h 44GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #28 | Crowd Funding with NFTs Beginning or ending - is crowd funding via NFTs something that should be shamed or accepted? Games with potential but no major web3 elements - should Sparkball be something people look to allocate investment in based on the merit of the gameplay? Open Campus - the gamified learning grant + more2024-07-091h 20GamifiedGamifiedGamified #74 | P2A Evolution | The $19b Opportunity | Notcoin Next? What's the Word? - Steam Users have spent $19 billion on games they’ve never played What’s next - Play to airdrop has gone from being a novel new concept to feeling overdone. Is it dead? What’s the next meta? Expanding onto multiple chains as a game, Doomed or Destined? What does it take to become a beloved IP in gaming? What makes Mario and Zelda truly special? Notcoin aims for “Fresh Start” and to become the “Netflix of Gaming” - What are the odds they do it? GOATs vs WOATs - web3 game genres 2024-07-041h 50GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #27 | BLAST fallout | Trailers in Web3 The Beacon mints out, simplify what this means for the greater web3 market Trailers that look like garbage - does that instantly disqualify a game? Tech in a minute - explaining 404 NFTs and if they have any use cases for gaming BLAST - what are your curiosities post TGE? Gaming valuations - what are you looking at and why? + more2024-07-021h 26GamifiedGamifiedGamified #73 | BLAST Hot Takes | The Beacon Mint Bullish or Bullsh*t - tournaments for web2 games using USDC for payouts Quickfire - is Blast going to last? What’s the BIGGEST deal for web3? - Konami launching a chain, Maplestory building a web3 game or Off the Grid as one of the best web3 games? Tokens - launch now or later? War of the Wolves - The Beacon Mint 2024-06-271h 46GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #26 | Dr Disrespect OUT | Beacon’s Mint Price Which is the King of Gaming Chains? Beacon's Mint Price Dr. Disrespect Fired? What’s the Word for Champions Tactics / Ubisoft’s mint? 2024-06-251h 38GamifiedGamifiedGamified #72 | Banana Steam NFTs? | Fallout Revenue What’s the word for the game “Banana” game almost breaking CCU records on Steam? Over/Under - Nintendo Switch 2 selling more than Switch 1 (33m units) Big Deal? 29 of 40 major gaming studios are using block chain to some degree The Fallout Show - Quickfire + Over/Under $65m in additional sales and revenue by way of people going back to games in the franchise Irrelevant or Inevitable? - AAA gaming on mobile. Assassin’s Creed launches on iPhone 15. 2024-06-201h 55GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #25 | Pirate Nation TGE | AI Arena Expectations What is a “FTUE” or First Time User Experience? Infinigods hits 500k downloads with King of Destiny Pirate Nation TGE wildly celebrated as a “for the gamers” airdrop with a massive (30%? of tokens) allocation for community participants AI arena sits at the intersection of two of the hottest narratives in crypto; AI + Gaming + more2024-06-181h 27GamifiedGamifiedGamified #71 | Web3 Gaming is Dead? | Metamask’s Game Launcher What's the bigger deal? MetaMask is now a game launcher or Animoca's Realm ID system is a universal login for all of their games Quick Fire: In 30 seconds or less each, is Web3 gaming dead? Rug or Recovery? $BLOCK Games continues to flounder 2 months after TGE. What advice would you give to an organization in this situation? Educate Me: Do Web3 games actually need 3+ projects? Over/Under: Sandbox raises another $20M at a $1B valuation Follow-Up: Do we think a mobile version, enhanced creator tools, etc., will be enough to justify this additional $20M? Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal...2024-06-131h 52GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #24 | 3 TGEs | Judging Founders | Ecosystem Tokens The fall of GALA and web3 game studios Foundations in Web3 Gaming - what are they, and should we care? Simplify and explain Nodes in 15 seconds NFTs are dead - Tokens are dead - Nodes are printing. What’s the move on this? Do Web3 gaming founders need to have previous experience to be successful in Web3? 2024-06-111h 31GamifiedGamifiedGamified #70 | PFP Games | GALA’s DemiseWe've got a lineup of exciting topics that you're sure to love. Here's what's on the agenda: Quick Fire: Web3 Gaming Presence at Consensus? Empathize or Condemn? Gala Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal? Two Famous PFP Projects Announcing a Game in the Same Week. Pudgy’s Game Claims to Be a Mobile Party Game Set to Launch in 2025, and Sappy Seals Looks to Be a Creature Collector but Still TBD. When Can a Founder Sell? Gamified Panelist of the Week Tune in and join the fun!2024-06-062h 14GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #23 | Pudgy’s Game | $MON still undervalued? Mythical Games x Pudgy Penguins mobile game, is this bound to be successful or Yuga 2.0? $MON reactions 1 week later - still undervalued? Can MOJO recover with their new roadmap after 70% drop in coin? + more2024-06-041h 21GamifiedGamifiedGamified #69 | The $700m Raise | $MON Launch | Yugas Attempt Chad or Chump? Giulio on $MON Token Launch What’s the word for game leaks and the first impressions made based off of them? Big Deal? Immutable Hits 1M Passport Signups Grifters or Godlike Marketers? Star Citizen Hits $700M Raised Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal: Web3 Gaming Launcher Elixir Acquires Arena Shooter IP RoboKiden GOATs vs WOATs? What is the Best, and the Worst, Sequel of All Time in Video Games? Gamified Panelist of the Week 2024-05-301h 50GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #22 | $MON Reactions | Cityverse Price Change Cityverse reduces their mint price from .1 eth to 0.025. $MON launches with their TGE at a $500m FDV, what do we expect from here? Gaming NFT value - Land vs Skins vs Battle Passes vs Nodes vs Characters vs Airdrop Allocations + more2024-05-281h 38GamifiedGamifiedGamified #68 | TON Gaming | Unique Mints | Speculators vs Gamers Agree or Disagree: Telegram/TON is the Future of Web3 Hyper Casual Gaming Over/Under: Browser Games Marketshare 1% of Total Game Market Revenue What’s the Word for Riftstorm’s Mint Structure? Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal: Fableborne Rebranding the Art Style Do Gamers Matter in Web3 Gaming? Speculators vs. Gamers and the Value They Represent 🔔 NEW SEGMENT! 🔔 Gamified Panelist of the Week: All our panelists vote for an MVP from the episode. The winner gets 5 minutes to talk about a topic of their choice or share something they’re excited about. 2024-05-232h 08GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #21 | Cityverse Mint | Gaming Portfolios | Why Gaming? Why are you here and what are you so bullish on in Web3 gaming? Simplifying the difference between NFTs and Tokens Cityverse Tycoon thesis and likeliness of success Reviewing mints from the past 3 months, who was right and who was wrong? + more2024-05-211h 30GamifiedGamified#67 | CEX Talk | Play 2 Airdrop dilution? Bullish or Bullshit: 73% of Web3 Gamers Started Up in the Last 12 Months Agree or Disagree: Free to Play and AAA is dying Sam’s CEX talk: Whats your takeaway from the thread? Is Utility a blessing or a curse? Do communities over value centralized exchanges? Is ApeCoin a failure? What’s the word for ApeCoin, and is this a failure, or is it still too early to judge? 2024-05-192h 06GamifiedGamifiedSimplified #20 | #1 Gaming Chain | Xterio goes Socialfi Dr Disrespect played ‘off the grid’ and gave it good reviews…how much do you trust ‘celebrity endorsements’ of games? Is there a definitive leader as a web3 gaming chain? Xterio Socialfi AI Art campaign, bullish? What are some ways bull markets might actually be negative for Web3 gaming compared against other investments like Meme coins? + more 2024-05-141h 33GamifiedGamifiedGamified #66 | Sony Backtracks | Auto-play Games Big deal, little deal, no deal - Pixels hits 3 million wallets registered and 900k daily active wallets What’s the word for PlayStation/Sony reverses their Helldivers 2 requirements? Bullish or bullshit? Fantasy Top Hero or villain? Automatic gameplay as a trend - is this a sleeping giant or a short-term trend? Think-tank? KOL rounds seem broken, how do we fix them? 2024-05-092h 06GamifiedGamifiedGamified #65 | Jauwn Reviews Parallel | Big Time Wipes Assets Quickfire: BlizzCon canceled Chad or Chump? The return of Ubisoft What’s the word? These rebrands in Web3 Change my mind: Re-releasing old games with Web3 integrations isn’t a good strategy Hero or villain? Web3's biggest critic Jauwn, who made an hour-long video eventually rating the game a 47 out of 100 Bigger deal? Gatorade joins Rumble Kongz Stripe payment processing is usable on Subnets Fair game or fucked up? Big Time wipes in-game items, which people purchased with REAL MONEY 2024-05-021h 50GamifiedGamifiedGamified #64 | Yuga Sells | Vallarok Flops Hopium or Copium? $60m esports tournament breaks records. Hot Take: Can Nyan overthrow Overwatch? Bullish or Bearish? Yuga sells IPs to Faraway. Whats the word? Vallarok Fumbles. Bullish or Bearish? Gaming Infrastructure investments flip direct investments into games 2024-04-252h 02GamifiedGamifiedGamified #63 | NFT Buy-Back Programs | Airdrop Marketing What's the word for Eternal Dragons shutting down and also offering an NFT buyback program? True or False - Gaming assets are too valuable for their own good. ⁠https://tinyurl.com/RegulatingWeb3⁠ Over/Under - 90% of all games will be free to play by the year 2030. What's the word for Bitboy One and SuiPlay 0x1? Fact or Fiction - Airdrops are the best marketing web3 has to offer. Over/Under - 1.5 successful web3 games from the same genre? Desert Island Scenario - Choose one game to play for the rest of your life. 2024-04-181h 52GamifiedGamifiedGamified #62 | Can You Pivot Out of Web3? | WTF is AAA? Bullish or Bullshit? - BloodLoop 500k Signups, Nyan Heroes 100k Players, 2.3m Users on Xterio Chain. W or L - Guild of Guardians Pivots From RPG to Idle RPG. Scrap 1, Add 1 - Gam3s.gg Top 5 Games of March. Who would you take off, who would you put on? What makes a game: AAA, AA, A, Indie? (Illuvium, Hell Divers 2, etc.) GOATs vs WOATs - Beloved Game IPs. 2024-04-112h 06GamifiedGamifiedGamified #61 | Mystery Box Giveaway | Discord’s Quests | Web3 Genres Discord Launches Questing - Bullish or Bullshit? Crypto Gaming Funds? - Big deal, little deal, no deal? Quick Fire - Which events are you going to and why? Dump/Date/Marry - Nodes, Tokens, and NFTs Change my mind - All roads lead to transmedia Fact or Fiction - You can’t dethrone a genre defining title Arbitrum and Azuki Collaborate to Launch AnimeChain - Whats the Word? Never have I ever - Bought a game I proceeded to never play 2024-04-051h 45GamifiedGamifiedGamified #60 | Web3 REDEMPTION | Mobile strikes back? ICO season is upon us - is this bullish or bearish? Whos GDC’s biggest winner? Mobile vs AAA Off the Grid raises 30m | Previous round was 46m Big deal, little deal, no deal? YGG is becoming the Guild of Guilds | Buy or Sell? 2024-03-271h 55GamifiedGamifiedGamified #59 | LIVE at WolvesDEN!Live from the WolvesDEN/Shrap House at GDC the Gamified panels weighs in on: Versus: Open edition gaming NFTs vs Low supply NFT collections What's the Word - Parallel Colony Choosing Solana WolvesDEN events: Korean BBQ or Alpha Night Slerf Accidentally Burns $10m Job Losses in the Gaming Industry Hiddem Gaming Gems from GDC Tune in for hilarious behind the scenes moments and in the room comments like the "well said" highlight at 1:11:002024-03-201h 41GamifiedGamifiedGamified #58 | Playstation's Patent | Maplestory moves to Avax Star Atlas’s $5m ship sale - Whats The Word? Playstation’s new patent - Bullish or Bullshit? https://tinyurl.com/mvcfuzaz Shrapnel shifts their token unlock schedule | Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal What’s the word for WolvesDEN @ GDC? Maplestory moves to Avax You can’t dethrone a genre defining title | Fact or Fiction? (Mario Kart vs Oh Baby Kart example) Airdrop 30% of your token supply | Over/Under 2024-03-141h 58GamifiedGamifiedGamified #57 | Web3 Gaming is NOT inevitable! | TCGs will lead the way Devils Advocate: Web3 gaming is NOT inevitable (Make the best case against it that you can) Yuga launches Dookey Dash on mobile - can it compete with other Endless Runners? Over/Under HALF of all time+resources in web3 is spent on legal/community/blockchain tech instead of product development Fact or Fiction TCGs will lead the way | Gods Unchained launches on mobile, Parallel goes open beta. 2024-03-071h 50GamifiedGamifiedGamified #56 | Bitcoin 61k | Console x Web3 Gaming | Epic's Ecosystem Big Deal? Off the Grid showing on Xbox store What’s the word for Epic’s Ecosystem - (804m epic accounts cross-platform but most of its revenue is Fortnite) Bullish or bullshit, gameplay logic needs to be on chain? (Context: http://tinyurl.com/gamifiedshow) Fact or Fiction | Mints should be idiot-proof Big Deal? | Avalanche goes down for 4 hours Heros or Villains | The Notcoin Wave of Mass Adoption (Context - http://tinyurl.com/gamifiedshow1) 2024-02-291h 52GamifiedGamifiedGamified #55 | Proof Acquired | VC Deals in Gaming | Battle TechWhat’s the Word? Yuga acquires PROOF Obvious Moonbirds insider trading: Acceptible or Unacceptible? Gaming VC deals declined 72%, but now level off... Over Under 50 (last months number) Big Deal? Shrapnel had 69k extractions in STX #1 Battle.tech - Reskinned Friend Tech or something more? Bullish or Bullshit - Building fully playable games with a text prompt (CC Paul Bettner) GOATs vs WOATs - Handheld consoles2024-02-291h 58GamifiedGamifiedGamified #54 | Disneys Metaverse | Paul's Apple VR Experience | Mobile in Web3Chad or Chump: Pixels edition | 34% to community vs 12.5% for team, where is the balance? - Fact or Fiction | Disney spends 1.5 billion to build the real metaverse - Apple Vision Pro reactions Chain-specific conferences - are they worth it? Avax Summit, Solana Breakpoint, etc. Fact or Fiction - We’re still not paying enough attention to mobile gaming https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1ypKdknkLLYxW2024-02-162h 04GamifiedGamifiedGamified #53 | NFT Rarity is Dead | Solana Goes Down | MEGA QUICKFIRE! Whats the Word for the Overworld trailer? Solana Hunger Games, bullish or bullshit? Info > http://tinyurl.com/yaxjhzx8 New game mode: MEGA QUICKFIRE! Who Rares? (Is NFT rarity obsolete now?) Solana Network Outages, big deal? 2024-02-081h 57GamifiedGamifiedGamified #52 | Anniversary SPECIAL! | AOF Faces BacklashThis was a really nostalgic episode for all of us. I hope it wasn't too much fan fare, I tried to mix in some great topics as well. To everyone who listens to Gamified each week - you've changed my life. I love you, thank you. -Sam Topics: Chads or Chumps? - AoFverse announce their token airdrop would be 10% unlocked and the rest vested over 18 months. iOS adds “core technology fee” (similar to Unity’s) Big Deal, Little...2024-02-012h 02GamifiedGamifiedGamified #51 | FCFS Mints | Are Guilds Heroes or Villians? - Nike claims this is only the start for Digital Fashion Whats the Word for a dog speedrunning games Anichess w/ Magnus Carlsen enters Web3 as ‘Immortal Game’ flops and claims web3 x chess can’t work - whos right? NFTs are Live Ops products, agree or disagree? First Come First Serve mints should die, agree or disagree? How many web3 games have you genuinely enjoyed? OVER/UNDER 5 Guilds in web3 are VILLIANS OR HEROES? (YGG, BreederDAO, etc) 2024-01-251h 50GamifiedGamifiedGamified #50 (audio issues, sorry!)Hi my friends, apologies for the audio issues on this episode. Twitter had server issues which caused rubber banding audio (every few seconds, a certain amount is cut out). This means that if you choose to listen to this episode, there may be moments that don't make sense. Please don't misconstrue anything that the panelist say due to this issue. --------------------------- What’s the Word for Otherside Apes Come Home trailer? True or False - is there a better way to...2024-01-251h 41GamifiedGamifiedGamified #49 | Pre-Sales | Fan Remakes of Games | AR vs VR vs Geo DDMBUY or SELL the Pre-sale meta for NFTs/tokens Fan Remakes of games - should these devs make any money? Should founders be upset about the IP being used? GOATs vs WOATs - Nintendo Games DDM - Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality or Geolocation games2024-01-112h 00GamifiedGamifiedGamified #48 | GOATs vs WOATs | "Fair" Dutch Auctions? GOATs! Whats the greatest CONSOLE of all time? Whats the Word for Age of Dino’s mint structure? (top 4k bid prices get NFTs) “Whats the Worst?” Unskippable cutscenes, Cheaters in Games, Buggy Game Launches Pick 1 gaming NFT to hold for the next 12 months 2024-01-041h 59GamifiedGamifiedGamified #47 Vampire Attacks | Game Leaks | Acquisitions Universal gaming tokens - still a bad idea? Has anything changed? Vampire attacks in web3 - does this stifle willingness to enable interoperability? https://decrypt.co/210566/animoca-brands-ceo-open-metaverse-defi-vampiric-attacks-games What’s the Word? - Champions Tactics (Ubisoft) art Reflecting on 2023 and looking forward to 2024 Bullish or Bearish on Kanpai Pandas acquiring Raini Lords of Light? Can a leaked game ruin launch plans? - Marvel’s Wolverine 2023-12-301h 54GamifiedGamifiedGamified #46 | Chess leaves Web3 | Axie's Dynamic NFTsHuge shoutout to Iceyyy for guest-hosting this one while Sam was down with an illness that took his voice away! Overworld - what can founders learn from the experience? What’s the word? Checkmate: Immortal Game ditches web3 over “heavy cheating” Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - Axie introduces Dynamic NFTs Is 2024 the year of on-chain gaming? 2023-12-292h 00GamifiedGamifiedGamified #45 | Pudgy World | Gods Unchained Removed from Epic Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - Pudgy Penguins releases trailer for Pudgy World - next Club Penguin? Are IRL events for cultivating your community or just clout chasing? Predictions for GAM3S.GG game of the year Changing chains - how important is it to your userbase? Multiple games moving chains lately - for example Apeiron to Ronin Dump, Date, Marry - what’s the biggest narrative for 2024/2025? Gaming, AI or Real World Assets (RWA)? 2023-12-152h 00GamifiedGamifiedGamified #44 | Web2 enters Web3 | Airdrop Meta Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - web3 games colliding with esports brands - Illuvium x Team Liquid and Wildcard x Dream Hack Quickfire - GAM3S.GG Awards - what’s your pick for most anticipated game? Also who’s your pick for content creator of the year? Airdrop as a marketing meta - good or bad? Lean in or out of web3 culture with your game? 2023-12-071h 53GamifiedGamifiedGamified #43 | Shrapnel's Lawsuit | Dump, Date, Marry Quickfire, Bulltrap or Bullish? 70 Web3 games on Epic, big deal? GuildTech aims to change SocialFi- will they? DUMP/DATE/MARRY (Web3 game genres) TCGS vs FPS vs RPG 2023-11-302h 01GamifiedGamifiedGamified #42 | RAID BOSS | Marketing AdviceGamified #42 topics: Quickfire: should MORE or LESS games require NFTs to play? Decrypt Announces 1m daily active gaming wallets (Bullish or Bots?) Whats the word for ,L3E7 Sweeping their own floors, plagiarizing art, You have $0 and you have to market a web3 game, name 1 thing you would do RAID BOSS: Building for SPECULATORS vs building for GAMERS/BUILDERS (in the short term) (RAID BOSS is a game mode...2023-11-232h 00GamifiedGamifiedGamified #41 | Roblox's NFTs | Crunchyroll's Games | GTA 6's expectations Quickfire | True or False | We’re so back! Big Deal? Ubisoft x IMX partnership Becker says AVAX is the #1 L1 for gaming, agree? Roblox NFTs - what’s the time horizon? Dump Date Marry - GTA, Red Dead Redemption, God of War You’re a game with a Marketing budget of $0, what’s one thing you would do? Is everything becoming Gamified? - Streaming services add games (Crunchyroll and Netflix) 2023-11-161h 54GamifiedGamifiedGamified #40 | Gaming Tokens PUMP | Discord is DEAD | Paul walks out! Can emerging (poorer) markets lead the way in mass adoption? Token game NFTs are pumping, bullish or bullshit? Star Atlas’s 24 million transactions, big deal? Games with meme culture (Raini lords of light, ohbabykart) built in, good idea or bad idea? Storytime with Paul Bettner 2023-11-092h 02GamifiedGamifiedGamified #39 | RAID BOSS East vs West, who leads the way on mass adoption? is NFT Utility fixed or flexible? Do games need their own chains? Web3 gaming awards, pick a dark horse Game of the Year + Creator of the Year RAID BOSS - Web3 Mass Adoption will happen through the WEST VS EAST (RAID BOSS is a segment where panelists are drafted onto teams, and you must argue for the side you were drafted onto) Pick 1 gaming NFT to hold for the next 12 months 2023-11-022h 04GamifiedGamifiedGamified #38 | Shrapnel raises $20m | Parallel's Expansion Bullish or Bearish on Parallel’s new expansion (Planetfall) Is NFT utility flexible or locked once announced? Are Custodial Wallets mandatory to onboard web2? What’s the Word - Pixelmon’s Hypercasual game TwitchCon’s low web3 presence 2023-10-261h 56GamifiedGamifiedGamified #37 | RAID BOSS Game Tokens | SKT1 x Web3?!Shoutout to the Official Blockchain of Gamified, Avalanche! And the Official GAME of Gamified, Shrapnel! Big Time - sustainable token or short term pump, good or bad for web3? Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - NFT Loyalty programs (Avalanche x T1 activation) RAID BOSS - Tokens for Games are GOOD vs Tokens for Games are BAD The $1m GAMER LEAGUE - Big Deal? 2023-10-191h 58GamifiedGamifiedGamified #36 | Pudgy's big rebound | Fableborne’s Mint | Question from Mom Whats the Word: Luca’s spotted history Question from the audience - what are common problems web3 studios run into building on blockchain? Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - was Fableborne’s mint a success despite not minting out? When to mint? - when is the ideal time to mint in your game’s lifecycle? D/D/M - Factory NFTs, Battle Pass NFTs, Land NFTs Questions from Mom 2023-10-121h 57GamifiedGamifiedGamified #35 | Zynga's reskins | WAGMI's huge failure | RAID BOSS!This was one of the most fun episodes I can remember. Great vibes on the panel today! Topics: Whats the Word: WAGMI mints 57/10,000 NFTs Over/Under 25% of a games budget gets spent on actual development? Storytime with Kohji RAID BOSS: Sugartown reskinning games (RAID BOSS is a format where panelists are drafted onto teams, then have to argue the point they are drafted on) Zuckerbergs new VR video, big deal? The Marketing Dilemma in Gaming 2023-10-052h 02GamifiedGamifiedGamified #34 | Xbox's Wallet | 1 Billion NFTs | Storytime with the Bettners | TSM drops their LoL team - bottom for esports? Shrapnel charging for early access Xbox leaked memo shows wallet integrations on roadmap Storytime - Share a story from your experience in games (3 people only) 1 billion NFTs minted, big news? 2023-09-281h 59GamifiedGamifiedGamified #33 | $580m raised, how are you spending it? 3 major streamers playing Off The Grid Off The Grid’s lowkey NFT integration Whats the Word: Xeenon shuts it’s doors 580m raised, D/D/M Games, Infrastructure, Defi Prime Gaming’s underwhelming effect Are DAOs dead? 2023-09-231h 50GamifiedGamifiedGamified #32 | Unity's bad decision | Conviction on Web3- What does Unity's decision to charge per install mean for developers? - What's the Word for Sugartown's mint? - What's the panelists #1 reason for still being in Web3?2023-09-141h 50GamifiedGamifiedGamified #31 | Creator League | Whats the word for Legends of Mara- Whats the Word for Yuga's Legends of Mara - Would you rather | have a web3 game built by web3 native studio or built by a web2 game studio - Creator League Fatigue - Big news, little news, no news?2023-09-071h 59GamifiedGamifiedGamified #30 | The $600m Game | Who Killed NFTs (and how to fix them)Whats the word for: 600m raised by Star Citizen Who killed NFTs? Blur/Degens/Opensea What Would You Do - if you were launching your game's socials tomorrow2023-08-312h 04GamifiedGamifiedGamified #29 | Zynga | Game IP | John Lindens Big Bet Zynga/Sugartown x Take Two, big deal, little deal, no deal Whats the word for Wreck League's mint? John Linden's big statement (3 NFT games with 10m players by 2024) Bullish or Bearish - Game IPs - will we keep getting more movies based on game IP or is this a dying trend? 2023-08-241h 43GamifiedGamifiedGamified #28 | Top game on Steam is Web3 | Games vs Infrastructure 2 of the 5 top upcoming games on Steam are Web3 games RAID BOSS: More bullish on GAMES or GAMING INFRASTRUCTURE?? Quickfire - Web3 game you're the most excited for, that isn't your own Does true ownership of the asset change it's value? KYC and eyeball scans - privacy to 0? 2023-08-171h 39GamifiedGamifiedGamified #27 | Yuga Games | Customers or Investors? Own up or shut up - HV-MTL Part 2 Bullish or Bearish - Wreck League NFT Owners - angel investors or customers? Big Deal, Little Deal or No Deal - finally seeing some good alphas/betas 2023-08-101h 47GamifiedGamifiedGamified #26 | RAID BOSS (Fully On-Chain Games) | Star Atlas | Dump/Date/Marry Star Atlas layoffs - how to tell what is a death knell vs a healthy trimming of fat? RAID BOSS - Captains draft teams to take sides on Fully-On-Chain Games Quickfire! Cyberkongz Genkai mint - what word comes to mind? DUMP/DATE/MARRY - Toxic Gamers, Toxic VCs and Toxic Community 2023-08-031h 50GamifiedGamifiedGamified #25 | Paul beats Electronic Arts | Universal Gaming Tokens Universal Gaming Tokens, good or bad? Ethical sponsorship of content creators D/D/M markets Can DAOs be effective publishers (apeDAO) Momoguro, Homa Games, Neopets, abandon Web3 / don't deliver on promises 2023-08-011h 55GamifiedGamifiedGamified #24 | How many Web3 games are good investments? | XRP news | Fact or FictionXRP news - bullish for gaming tokens? Over or Under? 10% of Web3 games are good investments right now? Fact or Fiction - Building games for the future is the best strategy2023-07-201h 37GamifiedGamifiedGamified #23 | Hot TakesWill Mobile Games be 90% of the successful Web3 games? Are WolvesDAO PFPs revolutionary? Does Lore really matter at all?2023-07-131h 49GamifiedGamifiedGamified #22 | PFPs vs Gaming NFTs - Reactions to HV-MTL and Paid Advertising in gamingGamified is a live Twitter Space that takes place every Wednesday at 1pm PST. Twitter.com/ethlizards Twitter.com/WolvesDAO Twitter.com/SamSteffanina Twitter.com/Lemz42 2023-07-061h 42GamifiedGamifiedGamified #21 - Ownership in web3, Azuki fumbles, SparkC's hot take, and Yuga gets the benefit of the doubt Yuga's new game - HV-MTL Dump/Date/Marry - Moba/FPS/MMO Hot Take: Metaverse Tokens are down 90%, but their fair value is another 90% lower Does web3 actually fix ownership? Do you REALLY own your assets? 2023-06-302h 03GamifiedGamifiedGamified #20 | Games vs Chains vs DAppsHere's the topics for a celebratory Episode #20! Topics 00:00 Intros 08:00 Episode #20 cards 09:08 Big Deal | Little Deal | No Deal? | "Only Up" x Goblintown 18:30 Grinds my Gears | Sam hates influencers 31:41 OVER/UNDER | How much is appropriate marketing spend for a game? 51:36 Dump / Date / Marry | Chains, DApps, Games 01:25:13 Agree or Disagree | Community Doesn't Scale? 01:36:00 Sinjin pulls out "gutless...2023-06-232h 00