GM! Welcome to the 5th 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. Hiro Capital - Blockchain Game Sector Investment Report H1 2022

2. DeGame x ABGA - 2022 Q2 GameFi Industry Report

3. Bethany Crystal - Dark Forest Community Synopsis

4. Bethany Crystal - Loot Community Synopsis

5. UA Fundamentals - Web2 vs Web3 UA Comparison

6. Games TX - How Investment in Gaming x Metaverse is shaping up as of July

7. FOGDAO - Analyzing a blockchain gaming community: Is it all about the money?

8. Pocket Gamer - 52 of the latest & most interesting mobile games on the blockchain

9. Test Jar Labs - What’s the point of Blockchain in Games?

   https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/whats-the-point-of-blockchain-in-games-870000867813

🎬 Podcasts / AMAs / Watches

1. Deconstructor of Fun - Tokenomics #14: How Design Legend Graeme Devine Found Web3 Success with Metropolis Origins
2. Vader Research - Everseed Deep Dive
3. Real Third Web - Gamifying the Future of Fitness w/ Dustland & OliveX
4. Web3 Wednesdays - UGC in Web3

📝 Notes / Summaries

1. Ryan (Delphi Digital) - Insights from Limitbreak / DigiDaigaku Twitter Space
2. Lone Wolf (Coin Owl) - Summary of What VCs look for in Web3 Games

🧵 Threads on Web 3 Gaming

1. Anthony Cheng (Newman Capital) - Why Web3 Games CPI is high
2. TimoYouth - How 5 years of F2P Game Economy & IAP Monetization Design can be applied to Web3 Games to make them more sustainable
3. reNFT - The On-Chain vs. Off-Chain Dilemma in Blockchain Gaming
4. zom.eth - YGG x Illuvium
5. The Axie Intern - Why Ronin will forever change the paradigm of gaming
6. Yeou Jie (DeFiance Capital) - $APE as a potentially good short term investment
7. Wolves DAO - Is it interoperability what projects should strive for?
8. Harry Liu (Forj) - Yuga Labs Seed Round Participant’s Post Investment Contribution
9. Roby John (Super Gaming) - Indus, the most ambitious game built in India
10. Yat Siu (Animoca Brands) - The mass adoption of blockchain gaming in Korea
11. Simon (Mighty Bear Games) - How do we assess seniority
12. quantumzebra123 (Token Insight) - 2022 H1 Investments by Animoca Brands
13. The Milk Road - Decentral Games is one of the most surprising metaverse projects
14. Yeou Jie (DeFiance Capital) - Possibility for SG to regulate Web3 Games w/ chance element

📰 Web 3 Gaming News / Updates / Action Items

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

1. Decentral Games - Newsletter #82
2. Huanhe (Tencent) - Stops sales on NFT platform as scrutiny mounts
3. Datawisp - Release of Roadmap
4. Treasure DAO - Bridgeworld Craft XP re-enabled
5. Skate X - Airdrop
6. Sandbox - Partnering up with Hell’s Kitchen to release a virtual restaurant
7. Play Castle Crush - One of the first Web2.5 Games is now live on AVAX
8. Guild of Guardians - Dev Diaries #16
9. Mithraeum - Bronze Age II test is now live
10. Crypto Raiders - Newsletter 8/15
11. BLOCKLORDS - Preregistration for early access is now open
12. Animoca Brands - Acquisition of Be Media

🔍 Newly Spotted Projects

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

Anichess (@AnichessGame)

Chess like never before. Magical board. Stunning battles.

Nether Cat Games (@nethercatgames)

Hypercastle Explorers (@hypercastle_exp)

Dogechain Games (@DogechainGames)

🗨️ Quotable Quotes

Maitham (Material 10) - Overcoming pay-to-win systems in Web3 Gaming

Brycent (LootBolt) - Gaming will transcend light years when one Web3 gaming project gets it right

Timo Youth (Empires Hub) - Complexity as the biggest issue of Web3 Games

Jonah Blake (Real Third Web) - Most games do not need a token of any kind

Ryan (Delphi Digital) - Web3 Land should funtion more like Spotify Recommendations and less like Times Square

Kix.eth (Crypto Raiders) - Toughest challenge for decentralized game protocols

Kix.eth (Crypto Raiders) - Game ecosystems with modding & 3rd party dev

Brycent (LootBolt) - Why we don’t see growth across the board in Web3 Gaming

Derek Lau (Guild of Guardians) - Why Web3 Games are taking so long to build

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