🤯 $100 BILLION Gaming Market in 2028?! | GAM3S Grid Weekly

Shrapnel STX3.1 $100K prize pool, The Beacon New Frontiers quest goes live, nWay launches Paris Olympics game, Sky Mavis recovers stolen funds, and more!

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June 13, 2024

🔥 Top headlines from this week’s digest:

  • GAM3S.GG 2024 Roadmap: Upgraded Home of Web3 Gaming

  • How to Buy $G3 and Everything You Need to Know

  • Earn WatPoints Now in the Wat Protocol by Gamee

  • Shrapnel STX3.1 Playtest with $100k Prize Pool

  • nWay Launches New Game for Paris Olympics

  • Gumi Becomes First Japanese Validator for Injective Blockchain

  • Polygon $640 Million Community Grants Program

  • How to Play Medieval Empires Open Beta

  • How Oasys is Building the Future of Gaming

  • Gangster Arena 2 Idle Degen Game Revealed

  • Immutable’s Robbie Ferguson Discusses the Future of Web3 Gaming

  • Sequence and Aethir to Offer Decentralized GPUs for Games

  • Motorverse Latest Web3 Integrations and Major Brand Partnerships

  • Aurory and Nosana Team Up for Cloud GPU Integration

  • Axie Infinity Introduces Axie Bounty Aid

  • The Beacon New Frontiers Quest Now Live

  • Delabs Partners with Ambrus Studio and Cow Cup

  • Arbitrum to Launch $215 Million Gaming Catalyst Program

  • The Lunatics New Strategy Game on Discord

  • Netmarble Reveals New Web3 Idle RPG Pocket Girls

  • Sky Mavis Recovers Millions from Ronin Bridge Hack

  • NFL Rivals Success on App Stores as Mythical Expands Web3 IPs

  • Overworld Arena Mini-Game Now Live with $110k Prize Pool

  • OwnPlay's Web3 Game CityVerse Tycoon Launches on Base

  • Shutdown Mongrel NFTs Sell Out and $FUSE Token Launch

  • Details on Anomaly's Passport NFTs and $NOM Token

  • The Sandbox Secures $20 Million Funding at $1 Billion Valuation

  • XAI Foundation Announces XAI Vanguard: Genesis Activation

  • Asia and MENA Games Market to Hit $100 Billion in 2028

  • Proof of Play Launches $PIRATE Token for Pirate Nation

  • Moku Reveals Details on Moki Genesis Collection NFTs

  • Bondex Secures Strategic Investment from Animoca Brands

  • Katana Inu and Baby Doge Collaborate on Limited NFT Collection

  • Parallel Launches on Epic Games Store

  • Pixelverse Secures $5.5 Million From Top VCs

đź‘€ GAM3S.GG 2024 Roadmap

2024 is the year of web3 gaming, and our roadmap features what we have in store. From cloud gaming and battle passes to the Vault and the G3 Passport, and as always, REDACTED.

Check out what we have in store and what each of the above mentioned features have to offer and how $G3 plays an integral role in everything we do, and will continue to evolve as we roll out more features.

đź“ť Asia and MENA Games Market to Hit $100B in 2028

Niko Partners forecasts Asia and MENA gaming markets to generate $100 billion by 2028, with India experiencing the highest growth, outpacing global market trends.

What’s Going On Here? 

Niko Partners has released its 2023-2028 video game market models and forecasts for Asia and MENA (Middle East and North Africa). Covering 13 country markets, including China, India, Japan, Korea, and various Southeast Asian and MENA countries, the reports detail significant growth trends and projections for the gaming industry in these regions.

What Does This Mean?

The report predicts substantial growth in the Asia and MENA gaming market, with the number of gamers expected to reach nearly 2 billion by 2028, up from 1.6 billion in 2023. These regions already accounted for over half of global players and spending on mobile and PC games in 2023, generating $86 billion in revenue. Key growth drivers include India, MENA, and Southeast Asia, with India projected to add 277 million gamers by 2028, surpassing China in gamer numbers.

Why Should I Care?

Understanding the growth trajectory of the Asia and MENA gaming market is crucial for businesses, particularly those in the gaming industry or adjacent sectors. With mobile gaming dominating in these regions and significant increases in gaming hours per week, there are ample opportunities for companies to tap into this burgeoning market. Additionally, the projected growth presents promising opportunities for blockchain-based gaming platforms, as the adoption of decentralized gaming ecosystems aligns with the market dynamics and rising spending power in Asia and MENA. For businesses looking to capitalize on these trends, adapting strategies to local market conditions and understanding the drivers of growth outlined in the report will be key to success.

Read the full report breakdown here

✍️ Reviews of the Week

Check out a hybrid action game combining fast-paced combat and a chilly cozy farm for you to plant your seeds in and tend to your sheep in our two featured reviews:

Shadow War’s alpha stage playtest offered an enjoyable and stable experience, with minor tweaks on character moment sound. The graphics are good, and the characters' special abilities look well done. The diversity of the different classes bring fun and excitement. If the team creates more maps for the next phase with also different game modes then they have a chance of disrupting the hero shooter genre in web3.

Moonfrost, in its current playtest phase, is already showing a lot of promise with its quality and replayability. However, since it's an alpha test, there's still plenty of room for improvement. For example, buying seeds requires you to manually click each one, and some minor visual and gameplay bugs need ironing out. To really stand out not just in web3 but the overall farming game genre, Moonfrost needs to amp up its content. While it's off to a great start, it's not quite there yet. As a fan of this genre, I can spend hours unlocking every crop, chatting with every NPC, and diving into their stories. Moonfrost definitely has the blueprint for success, but it still has a long way to go. I'm excited to see more content, especially classic farming game features like fishing, mining, and seasonal events.

🎮 Fresh Games

One of the oldest web3 games that allows players to trade virtual property and another that sends you into a community-driven city-building world, check out the latest games added to our platform!

Upland is a web3 virtual property trading game that mirrors the real world, allowing players to buy, sell, and trade digital properties mapped to real-world addresses.

Civitas is a web3-based, community-owned city-building game where players collaborate to construct and manage their own virtual cities.

🎙️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:

  • Gabby Dizon - Co-Founder of Yield Guild Games

  • Corey Wright - CEO at Honeyland

  • Ted Mui - CEO and Founder of Chibi Clash

Topics Covered:

  • Gaining Traction on Web2 App Stores: Web3 games are increasingly featured on traditional app stores, reaching a broader audience and gaining mainstream acceptance.

  • Massive Growth Potential in Asia and MENA: The Asia and MENA regions offer enormous growth opportunities for web3 games, driven by large, young, and tech-savvy populations.

🎧 Listen to the full conversation recording here

đź“ş New 2024 MMORPG | MetaCene

MetaCene is an upcoming MMORPG set in an immersive post-apocalyptic world. Dive into a world changed by a post-apocalyptic event and push beyond the limits in PvP and PvE battles. Fight in intense guild battles so you can control resources, territories, and win strategic game points.

Let us know what you think of MetaCene in the comments section 👇

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