GM! Welcome to the 6th 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 / Newsletters

1. Harry Liu (Forj) - Yuga Labs’ IP Ecosystem

2. CoinMarketCap x Footprint Analytics - 2022 GameFi Industry Report

3. Sam Peurifoy - The Endgame of Web3 Gaming

4. Will Robinson (Alliance DAO) - Unlocking On Chain Games Part 2: The 18xx Genre

5. MatchBox DAO - How to Make On-Chain Gaming Competitive: Session Keys [Part 1]

6. Yat Siu (Animoca Brands) - Blockchain Gaming is here to stay

7. t11s (Paradigm) - VRGDAs for the on-chain racing game 0xMonaco

8. The Block - The State of Crypto Gaming

9. Frontier Gaming Watch - H1 2022 Gaming Industry Report & Other News

10. Decentral Games - Newsletter #83

🎬 Podcasts / AMAs / Watches

1. ARK Invest - The future of Web3 Games & Digital Ownership with Ryan Watt

2. Real Third Web - Twitter Space with EFAS (Earth From Another Sun)

3. Vader Research - Interview w/ Crypto Unicorns CEO Aron Beierschmitt

4. Galaxy Brain - 1 yr anniversary of LOOT, Starkware & ZK Gaming

5. Framework Ventures - How blockchain gaming adoption plays out

6. FOGDAO - Weekly Blockchain Gaming Rollup #11

7. Naavik - A Deep Dive into Web3 Publishing, Growth & UA

8. Naavik - What’s Next for P2E Gaming Guilds

9. Into The Metaverse - The Ethos of Decentraland w/ Marja Konttinen

10. Web3 Wednesdays - MMOs in Web3 Gaming

📝 Notes / Summaries

1. Mike Lau - Treasure Builder Series #10

2. Covduk - Summary of CMC x Footprint Analytics’ 2022 GameFi Industry Report

3. Calmdonut (The Block) - State of the Crypto Gaming Market

🧵 Threads on Web 3 Gaming

1. Luluxa - Chads to follow to be ahead in Web3 Gaming

2. Ryan (Delphi Digital) - FREE TO OWN, the new Web3 model that will change game monetization forever

3. Aiko (Folius Ventures) - Notes on Evaluating Game Investments

4. 0xBeans (Coinbase) - Blizzard’s golden hour is coming to an end

5. Jiho (Axie Infinity) - Content is King

6. Will Robinson (Alliance DAO) - How Paradigm’s Gradual Dutch Auction can be implemented in games

7. JACL (Wolves DAO) - Hypercasual Mobile Games are in trouble

8. Yat Siu (Animoca Brands) - Royalties are a critical part of the Web3 Ethos

9. Mitchell - Overview of LUXON and it’s turn-based strategy game, Desperado B218

10. Shivsak (Magik Labs) - In a bear market, games must deal with the sustainability of their model

📰 Web 3 Gaming News / Updates / Action Items

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

1. Pulsar - Updated Roadmap

2. Grease Monkey Games - Support from Epic Games to develop Torque Drift 2

3. SkateX - Vision for the SkateX Trick Design System

4. Ready Player DAO Founder Pass - Access to Legends of Venari Demo Program

5. Treasure DAO - MagicSwap now LIVE

6. Sandbox - Alpha Season 3 now LIVE

7. Brycent - Game On Newsletter

8. Influence - Testing on Aug 29

9. GODS Unchained - Daily Play & Earn Event starts Aug 31

🔍 Newly Spotted Projects

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

Iron & Magic (@IronAndMagic)

npc gaming (@npc_gamers)

Hero Card (@herocard_xwg)

Dawning Labs (@DawningLabs)

Sidequest.xyz (@sidequest_xyz)

🗨️ Quotable Quotes

Kix.eth (Crypto Raiders) - We should be innovating, not copy pasting

Jonah Blake (Real Third Web) - Web3 Gaming shares the same infra as NFTs

Paul Graham - Recipe for failure

Robbie Ferguson (Immutable X) - Incentives are everything

Kix.eth (Crypto Raiders) - Mass market Web3 gaming will take some time

Kevin Lambert - Soon “blockchain games” will just be called “games”

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