🤔 Are AAA Games Dying? | GAM3S Grid Weekly

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May 16, 2024

🔥 Top headlines from this week’s digest:

🪂 $G3 Airdrop Phase 2: Coming Soon

AIRDROP PHASE 2: COMING SOON 🪂

Secure your spot by staking a minimum of 333 $G3. Increase your odds by staking more and interacting with exciting new features.

More details to be shared soon 👀

⚔️ GAM3 Quests

Providence, a web3 game by Dynasty Studios, offers a distinctive survival adventure. Players can expect to explore alien environments, engage in resource competition, and confront the challenges of the Singularity.

Complete the missions below for a chance to win one of 500 Epic Games Access Codes.

Note: Make sure your Steam profile is public to get verified.

Start Quest | Ends May 20th

BattleRise is a strategic RPG set in a mystical world, where players engage in turn-based combat and explore endless dungeons

Complete the missions below for a chance to win one of 250 Starter Pack codes.

Note: You MUST complete the tutorial to generate your GameID for the Sign Up and Wallet Connect missions to be checked off.

Start Quest | Ends May 20th

Prepare for Shrapnel STX3, where players can collect fragments, and complete missions to earn SHRAP and additional skin rewards.

Complete the missions below for a chance to claim one of 4,000 Extraction Pack codes

  • 3,000 Medium Extraction Packs

  • 1,000 Heavy Extraction Packs

Note: Make sure your Steam profile is public to get verified.

Start Quest | Ends May 23rd

Nyan Heroes brings an incredibly high quality battle royale experience for players to enjoy with various classes, equipment, and deep lore within the world of Nekovia.

Complete the missions below to instantly claim a Sack of Catnip Nyan Heroes code.

Note: Please make sure your GAM3R is not in your Hidden folder and is in the Public folder of your Opensea account.

📝 Korean Mobile Strategy Games Hit Highest Monthly Sales in Over 2 Years

Discover how Last War: Survival and other foreign titles drive the Korean mobile strategy game market to its highest monthly sales in over two years.

What’s Going On Here? 

The Korean mobile strategy game market experienced a significant surge in sales in January 2024, reaching its highest monthly sales in over two and a half years. Notable titles like Last War: Survival, along with foreign games such as WOS: Whiteout Survival and Brawl Stars, played a crucial role in driving this growth.

What Does This Mean?

The spike in sales reflects a strong demand for mobile strategy games in the Korean market. Last War: Survival, in particular, achieved remarkable success with its immersive gameplay mechanics and effective marketing strategies. Its exceptional performance contributed to the overall growth of the mobile strategy genre, indicating a shift in consumer preferences towards engaging and strategic gaming experiences.

Why Should I Care?

For players, developers, and investors interested in the gaming industry, these findings offer valuable insights into the current trends and opportunities in the mobile strategy game market. The success of Last War: Survival highlights the importance of creating captivating gameplay experiences and implementing effective advertising strategies to attract and retain players. Additionally, as blockchain technology continues to reshape the gaming landscape, understanding the factors driving the success of games like Last War: Survival can provide valuable lessons for developers venturing into the web3 gaming space.

Read the full report breakdown here

✍️ Reviews of the Week

We drove around the streets of Wiami and explored a vibrant 3D sci-fi universe in our two featured reviews:

Wilder World impresses with good crafted sound effects, elevating the immersive experience, though there's room for better alignment between auditory and visual elements in new vehicle designs. Gameplay mechanics evoke nostalgic feelings. Despite initial sluggishness but, with stunning graphics enhancing immersion. Awarded an 7.5/10, Wilder World shows promise even in its early stages, with Samsung's partnership heralding accessibility via a range of devices, promising exciting developments ahead in this evolving digital universe.

Providence, created in Unreal Engine 5, offers a visually stunning and immersive 3D sci-fi experience for PC gamers. The graphics and sound design provide an immersive experience for the player. However, gameplay falls short due to bugs and missing features, like malfunctioning building functions and creatures getting stuck on terrain. Despite its flaws, Providence shows promise as an early version, laying a solid foundation. Overall: 6/10

🎮 Fresh Games

A mystical and dark universe filled with endless dungeons to conquer and a world filled with CAThletes trying to get in shape, check out the latest games added to our platform!

BattleRise is a strategic RPG set in a mystical world, where players engage in turn-based combat and explore endless dungeons

Walken is a walk-to-earn mobile game that combines fitness tracking with blockchain gaming, turning your daily steps into rewards within a virtual world where you train and compete with digital athletes called CAThletes.

🎙️Conversation of the Week

This week we spoke with 3 guests from top web3 games and ecosystems on different topics to get their opinion and share their insights. This episode of Press Play featured:

Topics Covered:

  • Korean Mobile Strategy Games: Korean mobile strategy games are achieving global success with standout titles like "Summoners War" and "Kingdom: Two Crowns," so why are they so successful?

  • Fantasy Top Hype: Fantasy Top is probably the hottest thing on socials right now. You can collect fantasy cards and line-up decks of your favorite X accounts so what is it all about?

  • Web3 Games on Epic Games Store: Epic Games Store was one of the first mainstream gaming launchers to embrace web3 gaming. There is more than 120 web3 games currently on Epic Games, so what has been the effect so far?

🎧 Listen to the full conversation recording here

📺 AAA Games are DYING

AAA games have made up many people’s childhoods. We all remember the days we couldn’t wait to get home to immerse ourselves in the latest Assassin’s Creed title, grind Call of Duty, or kick ass on Grand Theft Auto.

But, over the years, AAA games have changed - and not in a good way. We find ourselves paying astonishing prices for the next AAA release, only for the most popular franchises to launch titles that are incomplete or come out with the next one as early as a year after launch.

Why are AAA dying? Watch our latest video and share your opinion in the comments 👇

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