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jon jordan
Blockchain Gaming World
Video Games
English
Everything you need to know about Blockchain Gaming.
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265
03 October 2025
3 October 2025 | Weekly news roundup
Talking SANDchain, Pudgy Party hits 1 million installs, KGeN raises $13.5M and Proof of Play. [0:25] The big announcement is SANDchain; a Patreon-type rewards platform for creators.[1:25] It's more to do with providing extra utility for SAND token than for The Sandbox platform itself.[5:10] Verified creators can use SANDchain to take a loan to invest in their business.[7:01] Some creators will...
37 min
26 September 2025
19 September 2025 | Weekly news roundup
News including Axie Infinity: Atia's Legacy, Craft World era 3.1 and Off The Grid's mainnet tmigration. [1:00] Axie Infinity: Atia's Legacy has launched its first 7-day playtest.[2:10] It's an MMOG that in part builds on the Axie Infinity: Homeland farming/trading game.[3:33] Jon thought the initial plans laid out for the game were a little sketchy.[8:16] Comparing the iterative approach of...
49 min
19 September 2025
19 September 2025 | Weekly news roundup
Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:44] This week, we asked our Mavens group about the rise of sustainable degen games.[2:00] Originally, this type of game was more about crypto than blockchain.[3:25] YGG is now calling this genre "casual degen" games.[4:40] These experiences start with a thin layer of gaming and a lot of high risk-high reward features.[7:30] You...
38 min
12 September 2025
12 September 2025 | Weekly news roundup
Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[1:05] There's a wider focus on general crypto with ETFs, treasury companies etc. Not gaming.[3:51] Web2 game Wildcard and its Thousand web3 ecosystem is gearing up for its October launch.[5:10] Wildcard has just surpassed 75,000 wishlists on Steam. [9:04] Details about ownership of in-game character cards has been released,...
31 min
05 September 2025
5 September 2025 | Weekly news roundup
Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[1:18] Looking at the most popular blockchain games, we can start to see some trends for 2025. [1:42] Axie Infinity and Aliens Worlds have been very stable throughout 2025.[4:17] Games such as Pixels and Nine Chronicles have decline sharply as they rethink their vision.[6:00] MapleStory Universe is the big growth story of the year...
42 min
29 August 2025
29 August 2025 | Weekly news roundup
Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:38] What's going on at The Sandbox? Co-founders shifted? Job cuts? Memecoins?[0:52] Animoca's Robby Yung will be the new CEO as Animoca exerts more control over the project.[1:30] To a degree, the news is only "big" because its The Sandbox, which everyone knows.[3:25] Animoca is annoyed because it wanted to announce the...
35 min
22 August 2025
22 August 2025 | Weekly news roundup
Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:35] Proof of Play is shutting down fully onchain game Pirate Nation.[3:08] As well as combat, it had a deep crafting system but never attracted enough players. [4:00] Its play-to-airdrop seasons artificially boosted audience but not revenues. [6:06] The main reason it shut was it cost $150,000 a month to run the underlying...
36 min
15 August 2025
15 August 2025 | Weekly news roundup
Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:52] Jon's been talking to MMOG veteran John Smedley about new FPS Reaper Actual.[2:30] What's interesting about the project is how perceptions about web3 have shaped its vision.[4:31] Steam doesn't allow blockchain and some of the Steam community hates blockchain. [4:51] So the web3 version of Reaper Actual will only be...
25 min
13 August 2025
201 | Why John Smedley's making a blockchain game
In the latest episode of the Blockchain Gaming World podcast, editor-in-chief Jon Jordan talks to MMOG legend John Smedley about his new studio Distinct Possibility and its forthcoming persistent extraction shooter Reaper Actual, which will be released on Steam and Epic Games Store as a pure web2 game, with the web3 version only available via its own website.[2:33] Reaper Actual is a mix between...
39 min
01 August 2025
1 August 2025 | Weekly news roundup
Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:50] Craft World launched on Ronin. One day late. [2:43] It also launched its DynoCoin, which is designed to be a purely transactional token.[4:53] DynoCoin was a fair launch, 100% for community. No allocation for team, investors or KOLs.[6:42] If you want to cash out from Craft World, you need to buy a $8 Pro Account. This...
26 min