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🔥 Top Headlines

Must Reads & Reports:

• Best Mobile Games for August 2025

• Pudgy Party Records $5K Sale

• Roblox Increases Creator Payouts

• Significance of India’s Online Gaming Act

• Sony-backed Soneium Partners with BPMG

• DappRadar Industry Report August 2025

• Google Play Games Adds Social Features

Industry Updates & Tokens:

• BGA Web3 Gaming Industry Survey 2025

• Gaming Tokens Market Update August

• WorldShards $SHARDS Post TGE

• Ronin Selects Optimism for Migration

• Supply Chain Attack Exposes Over 2 Billion

• OpenSea Launches AI Mobile App

• MapleStory Universe Faces Criticism

Events & Tournaments:

• Pre-Register Now for Legend of YMIR

• SILENT HILL f Release Date

• RavenIdle Open Beta to Offer $70k in Prizes

• Details on WEMADE's Creator Program

• Shatterpoint S1 Offers Big Rewards

• Kuroro Beasts Event Offers $250k Rewards

• EVE Frontier Free Trial Now Open

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📝 Deep Dive

Top Game Releases for August

August 2025 brought a mix of remakes, new releases, and indie successes across PC and console platforms. GameDiscoverCo data highlights the trends shaping the market.

🎮 Top Steam sellers by units: Titan Quest II, Mafia: The Old Country, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War, and Metal Gear Solid Delta. Indie titles like Abyssus, Is This Seat Taken?, and Tiny Bookshop also performed strongly.

💰 Revenue leaders: Mafia: The Old Country ($18.8M), Metal Gear Solid Delta ($15M), and Super Robot Wars Y ($4.3M). Free-to-play games such as Counter-Strike 2 and PUBG continued to dominate overall earnings.

🕹 Console highlights: Madden NFL 26 led sales on PlayStation and Xbox, while Helldivers II and indie Switch titles like Tiny Bookshop saw notable results.

📊 Key takeaways: Remakes and established franchises remain strong, but indie games are securing meaningful audiences, particularly on Steam and Switch. Pre-orders, discounts, and updates are driving ongoing engagement for live-service titles.

Read the full report breakdown here.

✍️ Fresh Guides

💚 G3 Exclusive

Oliver Maroney on OpenSea’s Gaming Strategy

We recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Oliver Maroney, Head of Business Development & Partnerships at OpenSea, to discuss his perspective on the future of web3 gaming and digital ownership.

With a background in esports, sports reporting, and content creation, he brings a broad understanding of how communities and technology intersect.

Key takeaways from the interview:

🎮 Gaming is a natural focus for OpenSea, as NFTs give players true ownership of in-game assets such as skins and tokens.

🌐 OpenSea positions itself not just as a marketplace, but as a cultural hub for discovering games, art, and communities onchain.

🔒 Security and trust are central, with dedicated teams working to protect users from scams and fraudulent collections.

🛠️ New tools like crosschain purchasing, APIs, and the MCP server are helping both gamers and developers integrate blockchain more seamlessly.

🤝 Partnerships, such as the one with us at GAM3S.GG, aim to make discovery, education, and trading part of one connected experience.

Maroney believes it may only take one successful title to bring web3 gaming into the mainstream, and OpenSea is building the infrastructure to support that moment.

More information is available on our website here.

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