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🕹 The Web3 Gaming Growth Handbook — Source

👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — July 16 💎 Gaming Spotlight 🥜 • Soulbound announced that they were crowned the Grand Prize Winner of Discord App Pitch 2024 opening up the chance to further develop their game in partnership with Discord enhancing its features & expanding its reach within the platform — Read More 🔄 Gaming Updates • Champions Tactics — Private & Public Champions Mint (July 18) • Heroes of Mavia — Launched RubyScan (Blockchain Explorer) • BEAM — July Development Update • Puffverse — Astronaut NFT Collection Sale (July 18) • World Shards — Version 0.5.0 Changelog • RIVES — Released new update • Immortal Rising 2 — Launching in Q3 2024 • Skyborne Legacy — Released more details around IP Expansion plan 🔖 Gaming Reads • GamesTX — Blockchain Gaming's deflated sentiment • Gaming Chronicles — Weekly Alpha 06 • Rocco — Comprehensive beginner guide to Idle RPG game, Kamigotchi ▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens • Game Economist Cast — Episode 28: Banana! (P2E hits Steam, Why now & Why Bananas and the externalities of bots) ✅ Gaming Projects • Infinity Ground • Chat Royale • Supercut • Vegas HL hope helpful wuwu 😆💞 ✅ Gaming News ✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

I raised millions from top investors and close friends to build Zero Edge. Our vision: A fully on-chain casino that profits with players, not on them. By rebating 100% of house edge and imposing strict betting caps, we aimed for 3 killer features: Zero EV betting, no blowups and token upside. Bettors would be "better together"

But the moment I received the proceeds, something snapped. I felt compelled to make up for my missteps. Within days, millions were in leveraged longs, and starting from the fall in bitcoin from $64k to $58k and extending into the following days, the treasury took a substantial hit

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Galaxy says it has reported a former general partner, Richard Kim, to the authorities for misappropriating at least $3.67 million of company funds belonging to Zero Edge, Kim's crypto casino.

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Quick Overview of Gaming Chains Q2 2024 — Source

👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — July 15 🔄 Gaming Updates • GameCoin — Launched Hot Air on TG • ZkCandy — Introduced OG Pass • Gomble Games — Launching new game, EggDrop (July 18) • Crystals of Naramunz — Open Beta slated for December 2024 • XOCIETY — Battleground Open Playtest (July 15) • Supervillain Labs — 1st AMA Recap • Pebble City — Will launch on Android/iOS App Store in Q3 2024 🔖 Gaming Reads • Ancient 8 — Introduced $A8 ecosystem governance (Token soon?) • Martin — Building Dota or Valorant on-chain is cool but unlikely to take crypto gaming to the next level but on-chain games will ▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens • Jauwn — The Web3 Metaverse: One Year Later 💸 Gaming Fundraising • Akedo Games — Secured strategic investment from The Open Platform (TOP) to develop Telegram Games in the TON blockchain ecosystem. Their first TG game, Akedog launches on July 18 ✅ Gaming Projects • Provable Games • GameCoin • Yolo • Onchain Heroes • Fit Club hope helpful wuwu 😆💞 ✅ Gaming News ✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

South Korea is considering a further delay in the taxation of cryptocurrency investment gains, pushing the implementation from January 2025 to January 2028

— Source This decision comes amidst concerns and opposition from investors and industry experts. The Ministry of Finance is yet to finalize the decision and plans to release next year's tax law amendments later in July. This marks the third postponement of the crypto capital gains tax, which was initially scheduled to begin in January 2022.

👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — July 8 to 13 🔄 Gaming Updates • Anichess — Launched Season 2 • Kitty Kart — Launched Racing • Mystery Society — Launched on Android • Eternum — Live on testnet for 1 week • Desperado B218 — Launched on iOS • Kamigotchi — Launched their on-chain pet idle RPG game on testnet • Castaways — Launching a new game that's entirely Web2 • Illuvium — Official Game Launch (July 26) • AI Waifu — Next iteration of AI Waifu is AIKOI • Karrat — Introduced "The Others", LLM/SLM powered collectibles part of $KARRAT ecosystem • Decentral Games — Shipped Private Tables, Voice Chat & More • BattleBound — Pivoting game design from auto-battler to action RPG • Fren Pet — Now playable within Telegram • Tale Weaver — Won StarkNet Hacker House • Illuvium — Illuvium Zero Beta Launch on iOS/Android/PC/Mac • MixMob — Token Utility Overview 🔖 Gaming Reads • Cherry Blue — Composable Game as a Service • NightMarket — What does true esports look like? • Happy Chain — ETH L2 that brings free-to-play and zero friction onboarding onchain • Ryan Rigney — Nobody Knows if your game will pop off • Tamagucci — Telegram: A Faux Narrative or What • Material 10 — Announced Project Fallen, a hardcore PvP multiplayer game blending squad-based third-person shooter with RTS elements • Sparkball — Official Web3 Update & Future of Sparkball • Kieran — IIP that if approved enables creators, guilds and partners to earn up to 17.5% on purchases made by referrals • John Patten — Magicswap V2 • Hunter Solaire — Why Pirate Nation's P2A event was perfect • Arto (Tribo Games) — Web3 version of game X • Hunters Arena: Revolution — CBT Program (July 18 - 24) • Plotchy — Using Tech IQ to dominate Kamigotchi ▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens • Doubl3Tap — Ep 24: Ryan Wiancko (Ironbelly Group) • a16z Games — The Unlikely Return of the Video Game Demo • Gam3s.GG — Tournaments & Player Engagement • Venture Games — Episode 46: Matt Ball, Epyllion • Zima Red — Episode 157: Chris Heatherly • ChainCraft — How we are creating an AI + Blockchain powered game development platform 💸 Gaming Fundraising • Soccerverse — Announced $3.1m funding round led by Square Enix • Pixelverse — Announced seed $2m extension round from Galaxy, CRIT Ventures, ARC, and angels ✅ Gaming Projects • Runepunk Legends • Proxi • Power Protocol • NEXPACE • ChainCraft Games • Enter VR • Grow Studio • Incarnation • BeraTone • Alliance Games hope helpful wuwu 😆💞 ✅ Gaming News ✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

Topology is hosting Autonomous World to share the latest updates on Topology protocol and other AW games at ETHCC July 11, 9:30AM to 1PM Source

PixeLAW's first public playtest will be held on July 8 — Source Join for updates: https://t.me/+SL4nZfOcoMNiYjg6

👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — July 1 to 3 🔄 Gaming Updates • Baratie — GMonster GM Challenge (Join by July 5) • THE WATCH — Version 2 Private Alpha (July 5) • Ember Sword — Closed Beta (July 12) • GOAT Gaming — Launched Road to $GOAT Airdrop Campaign • Fableborne — Launched Play 2 Airdrop Campaign • Wild Forest — Launched game & Play 2 Airdrop Season 2 • Shardbound — Launched Public Beta • Paradise Tycoon — Launched P2A Season 2 • Crypto Unicorns — Launched S1 Play-to-Airdrop • Decentral Games — Launched BAG City • Blast Royale — Launched Beta Season 10 • Loot Legends — Launched Pre Registration for Web3 mobile roguelite dungeon crawler game • Tatsumeeko — Launched Pre Beta Preview #1 • Worldwide Webb — Rebranded to Soulbound • Cross The Ages — Early Access (December) • BattleBound — Launched Steam store page for Project A • Rumble Arcade — Now available as Mobile App PWA • Aavegotchi — June Highlights • Petopia — Launching Free For All PvP • ZTX — Revealed Roadmap • MARBLEX — Migrating games & dapp services to Immutable zkEVM • Treasure DAO — Released Developer Docs • Planet Mojo — New Season (July 11) • Treeverse — Monthly Update #31 • Pirate Nation — Turned off signups for new accounts to maintain game stability & performance • Uncharted — Future Roadmap to become gamification layer for crypto 🔖 Gaming Reads • Autonomous Worlds Network — Pixel Based Digital Physics • Starknet Foundation — Recipients of Propulsion Program ($20m initiative) • zKorp — zKastle, solo strategy card game & winner of ETHGlobal StarkHack Dojo Prize • Blockworks Research — Fully Onchain Gaming & Autonomous Worlds • Peter (1kx) — Evolution of fully onchain applications • Arto (Tribo Games) — Is Mobile Gaming mostly casual • Jon Hook (Play Ember) — Consumer crypto is the trending narrative • Cipher — Sanko Gamecorp for Dummies • Vader Research — Is listing your token on Tier 2 CEXs worth it at this point? • Apix — Influence economy & reward structure breakdown ▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens • Press Play (Gam3s.GG) — How does a game go about building a brand in Web3? • Doubl3Tap — Episode 022: Richard Kim (Zero Edge) • Venture Games — Episode 45: Anton Bernstein (Pocket Worlds) • Game Economist Cast — E28: B-A-N-A-N-A! • FOCGERS — The launch of an FOCG, 3 years in the making • Into The Metaverse — EP.95: Matthew Ball & The Future of the Metaverse (Part 1) 💸 Gaming Fundraising • Second World Games — Raised $3m in token presale (TGE on June 26) • Farworld — Closed $1.75m funding round led by Lemniscap & Variant Fund • Grug’s Lair — Closed pre-seed funding round led by PTC Crypto • Cambria — Closed $2.5m seed round led by BITKRAFT • Redacted Coin — Raised $10m to create a Web3 entertainment ecosystem ✅ Gaming Projects • Heir of Light: Eclipse • Llama Land • Immortal Rising • Runepunk Legends • zKastle • Chain Monstershttps • Hyve Labs hope helpful wuwu 😆💞 ✅ Gaming News ✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — July 1 to 3z 💎 Gaming Spotlight 🥜 • XYZ XYZ— Read More 🔄 Gaming Updates • Baratie — GMonster GM Challenge (Join by July 5) • Uncharted — Future Roadmap to become gamification layer for crypto • Pirate Nation — Turned off signups for new accounts to maintain game stability & performance • Tatsumeeko — Launched Pre Beta Preview #1 • Decentral Games — Launched BAG City • Worldwide Webb — Rebranded to Soulbound • Cross The Ages — Early Access (December) • BattleBound — Launched Steam store page for Project A • THE WATCH — Version 2 Private Alpha (July 5) • Rumble Arcade — Now available as Mobile App PWA • Aavegotchi — June Highlights • Ember Sword — Closed Beta (July 12) • Shardbound — Launched Public Beta • Paradise Tycoon — Launched P2A Season 2 • Crypto Unicorns — Launched S1 Play-to-Airdrop • Petopia — Launching Free For All PvP • Blast Royale — Launched Beta Season 10 • ZTX — Revealed Roadmap • OhBabyGames — Oh Baby Kart Dev Update #3 • MARBLEX — Migrating games & dapp services to Immutable zkEVM • Treasure DAO — Released Developer Docs • Fableborne — Launched Play 2 Airdrop Campaign • Wild Forest — Launched game & Play 2 Airdrop Season 2 • GOAT Gaming — Launched Road to $GOAT Airdrop Campaign • Planet Mojo — New Season (July 11) • Treeverse — Monthly Update #31 🔖 Gaming Reads • Autonomous Worlds Network — Pixel Based Digital Physics • Starknet Foundation — Recipients of Propulsion Program ($20m initiative) • zKorp — zKastle, solo strategy card game & winner of ETHGlobal StarkHack Dojo Prize • Blockworks Research — Fully Onchain Gaming & Autonomous Worlds • Peter (1kx) — Evolution of fully onchain applications • Arto (Tribo Games) — Is Mobile Gaming mostly casual • Jon Hook (Play Ember) — Consumer crypto is the trending narrative • Cipher — Sanko Gamecorp for Dummies ▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens • Press Play (Gam3s.GG) — How does a game go about building a brand in Web3? • Doubl3Tap — Episode 022: Richard Kim (Zero Edge) • Venture Games — Episode 45: Anton Bernstein (Pocket Worlds) • Game Economist Cast — E28: B-A-N-A-N-A! • FOCGERS — The launch of an FOCG, 3 years in the making • Into The Metaverse — EP.95: Matthew Ball & The Future of the Metaverse (Part 1) 💸 Gaming Fundraising • Second World Games — Raised $3m in token presale (TGE on June 26) • Farworld — Closed $1.75m funding round led by Lemniscap & Variant Fund • Grug’s Lair — Closed pre-seed funding round led by PTC Crypto • Cambria — Closed $2.5m seed round led by BITKRAFT ✅ Gaming Projects • Trifle Banners NFT Blob Arena 0xpioneer TWL Saku Monsters GameShift Spot Zero Game HOL Eclipse War3xyz Slay App Hootah Web3 Immortal Rising 2 LlamaLandAO Call The Banners hope helpful wuwu 😆💞 ✅ Gaming News ✅ Web3 Gaming Coverage

❗️ CPO & Co-Founder of XTerio / Age of Dino Resigns — Source

❗️ CPO & Co-Founder of XTerio / Age of Dino Resigns — Source

Onchain Game Events for EthCC — Link

🎲 Decentral Games (Now Bag) — Launches open beta for Bag City Metaverse An immersive 3D world where you can play your favorite games with your degen friends hosting private poker nights and get a social experience unlike traditional casino platforms — Source ✅ Website

Maplestory Universe — Opens registrations form for Pioneer Testers, 1000 will be accepted (July 1 to 7) — Source Questionnaire Form

Of the 2 DeFi SubDAOs, Sakura was supposedly going to move into gaming — Source

🪚🪚 Join GOAT Gaming, a gaming infrastructure platform for competitive games — Read More Code for 1,000 GOAT Points: OCFN1B ✅ Twitter 🌐 Docs