GM! Welcome to the 4th edition of Playlist 🎮

A weekly newsletter containing a curated list of the week’s most notable Web 3 gaming reports, podcasts, events, quotes and threads for you to catch up on during the weekend 👇

📁 Reports / Research / Essays

1. Frontier Gaming Watch - Interview with Treeverse CEO, Loopify
2. Messari - State of Decentral Games Q2 2022 Report
3. Dean Takahashi - Why Web3 Companies created the Open Metaverse Alliance
4. Jon Jordan (GamesTX) - Rebooting Crypto Unicorns
5. Jon Jordan (GamesTX) - Reconsidering the most popular blockchain games
6. Jon Jordan (GamesTX) - Does it matter if we’re early?
7. PlayToEarn #135 - Games to Watch in August
8. IEEE - The Spectacular Collapse of CryptoKitties, the first big blockchain game
9. BalthazarDAO - Research Report on Phantom Galaxies
10. Devin Becker (Nami) - NFT Interoperability for reals this time
11. Marc Canals (Champion Games) - The New Era of Blockchain Gaming

🎬 Podcasts / AMAs / Watches

1. Deconstructor of Fun - Tokenomics #14: How Design Legend Graeme Devine Found Web3 Success with Metropolis Origins
2. Metacast (Naavik) - Strider DAO: Community-Driven IP Creation
3. FOGDAO - Weekly Blockchain Gaming Rollup #10
4. Web3 Breakdowns - Investing in NFTs & the Metaverse
5. Machinations - Webinar on how to model game loops in Machinations
6. Real Third Web - Future of Web3 Gaming w/ Jonathan StringField
7. YGG - Web3 gaming, Acquisition Strategies, YGG Pilipinas Roadshow, etc
8. NFT Game Chat - Design behind Mithraeum
9. Wolves DAO - Review of the new NFT Worlds Whitepaper & Tokenomics
10. Unlockd Finance <> Crypto Guilds - Connecting guilds & scholars with NFT liquidity
11. Flamingo DAO - How Webaverse is building an immersive, open source metaverse

🧵 Threads on Web 3 Gaming

1. Decentral Games - What is ICE Poker Tournament Mode: Part 1
2. Bored Elon Musk - Interoperability in Games
3. Rich Cabrera (Ready Player DAO) - There are too many metaverses
4. Shreyansh Singh (Polygon) - Uptime is crucial to Metaverse Gaming
5. Harry Liu (Animoca Brands) - July Update on Animoca Brands Portfolio Companies

📰 Web 3 Gaming News / Updates / Action Items

A mix of news, updates and action items for notable Web3 games and projects

1. ApeCoin - Proposal to enable Ape-themed games on the blockchain (AIP 78)
2. ApeCoin <> Magic Eden - Proposal to build an ApeCoin Marketplace
3. BlackPool - Q2 Report
4. Worldwide Webb - Season 1 Alpha on Immutable X will feature gas-free NFT trading
5. Parallel NFT <> Fractional - Card Binder & Paraset Creator Tool
6. Ancient8 - Launch of A8 UID
7. Ready Player Me - Create an Avatar
8. Arbitrum Nova - Dedicated chain for gaming & social apps, live & open to public
9. Decentral Games - Sit & Go Tournament Mode & Mobile Platform Rollout Plan
10. Axie Infinity - Origin Season 0: Phase 3
11. The Beacon - Gameplay Teaser
12. Life Beyond - Content Update #1
13. Smolverse <> StriderDAO - Building smolville, the flagship game of Smolverse
14. Defenders of Lucian Land - Alpha Patch 6
15. Skate X - Developer Update #1
16. Blast Royale - Battle Royale Update

🔍 Newly Spotted Projects

Games, protocols & projects that are new, interesting and under the radar

Thalassa (@ThalassaWorld)

STADIUM (@ProjectStadium)

INK Games™ (@INKGames)

Intella X (@TeamIntella)

SailCraft (@SailCraftGame)

SOCCERVERSE (@soccerverse)

DesperadoB218 (@DesperadoB218)

🗨️ Quotable Quotes

Jiho (Axie Infinity) - What truly revolutionary projects align around

Robert Morrison - Respectful discourse & competition

Jonah Blake (Real Third Web) - Gaming is changing dramatically fast

Brycent (LootBolt) - Don’t build a Web3 game w/o a marketing plan

Loopify (Treeverse) - Free mints & no royalties drive builders away

Brycent (LootBolt) - Importance of embracing & playing web2 games

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