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• What’s the word for Splitgate 2 not being able to break 30k players after Splitgate 1 peaked at 68k without a large budget?

• Sentiment Score for Reaper Actual, a new FPS that raised 30m to launch on Tezos

• Who’s the asshole here, or does everyone suck? Revolving games founder drama vs Haunted Space legal threats

• Would you rather advertise directly in-game or spend on product placement in someth...

• What’s the word for Jake Lucky promoting Valhalla, a web3 game made by the memecoin Floki?

• Crown one or cancel them all - creators vs product vs culture

• Eve Frontier has a free trial playtest from Jun 27 - July 7. will they attract their web2 player base to web3?

• What’s the better use of funding - 25m to buy and finish Hytale or 5m for Spekter Agency, a vampire survivors style rougelite on Te...

• Robinhood kicks the door down and enters web3 in a huge way

• Hustlepedia says Games need to level up; suggests that we haven’t come that far since 2022

We got rugged towards the end of the space, apologies on the abrupt ending!

This episode's panelists include:

- Phin from Abstract

- Hantao from Moku

- Jerry from WolvesDAO

- Slayer from WolvesDAO

- Jonah from Real Agency

- Dub from Glittercloud Solutions

- J...

• What’s the word for a new game studio raising 55m 2 years ago and seemingly having money issues already?

• Loopify announces $END token is launching soon

• Dump, Date, Marry - Steam Next Fest edition. The Bornless, Sparkball and Riftstorm

• Over/Under - 3 years until AI prompts let a 10 person team build a game like Breath of the Wild

Todays panelists include:

- Kohji from Parallel

- Dub from...

In this interview, I sit down with Hilmar Pétursson, CEO of CCP Games, the studio behind EVE Online and the upcoming EVE Frontier. We dive into the art and ambition of building MMOs at scale—and why Hilmar believes creating a game is a lot like the shaping of Iceland itself.

We cover:

• The technology of servers and persistent worlds

• Lessons from EVE Online's evolving economy and community

• How blockchain and open economies could ...

• What’s the word for Playstation offering refunds for MindsEye?

• Over/under - Otherside shipping in the next 3 years

• Building without roadmaps is the way forward for web3 game development

Today's incredible panelists include:

- Paul Bettner from Wildcard

- Kohji Nagata from Parallel & Wayfinder

- Sinjin Jung from MAYG

- Dub from Glittercloud Solutions & Sparkball

- Jon Radoff from Beamable

- ...

• Quick Hitter: How Big of a Deal is FIFA Rivals?

• Web3 games @ Steam Next Fest

• Pump.fun banned on X?

Today’s Panelists include:

• Payton, Jerry and Slayer from WolvesDAO

• Charlie Blackstock from Farcade

• Gnoc and voh from Magic Eden

• Dub from Glittercloud Solutions & Sparkball

• Jonah Blake from Real Agency

• Jon Radoff from Beamable

• Justin Gary from SolForge Fusion

• Michael Christine from Andrometa 

• OG from ...

• Own up or shut up - Nintendo Switch 2 blows out launch day sales record. did you think this would happen? (we got receipts)

• Star Atlas keeps shipping despite their previous team downsizing. Their community still believes in the vision - what can we learn from them as a class of 2021 still surviving today? + How do they compare to Star Citizen with how much they’ve shipped?

• Big Brain or Big Lame - OTG add...

• WHY do we keep moving towards community takeovers?

• Fair or Foul - Hantao Calls out Ronin

• Elon Vs Donald; Is it time to stable up?

• Polymarket teams up with X

This week's panelists include:

- Charlie Blackstock from Farcade

- Dub from Sparkball

- Slayer from WolvesDAO

- Jordan from Eureka and ReplyCorp

- voh from Magic Eden

- Hantao from Moku

- Michael Christine from Andrometa

- Jonah Blake...

• What’s the word for Call of Duty BO6 adding an ad for skins in the weapon selection menu?

• Dead, Undead or Fully Alive - single player games in web3. Is this the solution to player liquidity issues? Can single player games work in web3?

• Dump, Date, Marry - Elden Ring movie, Clash of Clans movie and Clair Obscur movie

• Final Form - what do game prices look like in 10 years? Mario Kart $80, GTA V...

• $LOUD is dumping HARD

• Explain like I’m 5 - why are companies buying BTC and ETH?

• Is there any hope for gaming tokens?

• New Game Mode: Thread or Dead - Kate Irwin says STOP BUILDING MULTIPLAYER

• Panel Picks - 1 token to go higher, 1 token to go lower

This week's panelists include:

- Phin from Abstract

- Jonah Blake from RealAgencyHQ

- Chuckstock (Charlie Blackstock) fro...

• What’s the word for one of the most viral indie dev sensations on Roblox ever?

• Steel man - new game mode where you have to steel man an argument for it. This week: Play to earn is the future.

• Hot or Not Take - vote whether it’s a hot take or not and explain why: New live service games are dead on arrival.

• Final Boss - new final topic game mode. This week you choose one of the following topics...

• Game Closures - Over/Under we’ve seen 25% of the shutdowns for 2025

• What’s the word for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's success?

• Quickfire - Will FIFA Rivals flip NFT Rivals?

• What’s the solution to reward structures in web3 games? - Maplestory players complaining about earning potential and changes to drop rates from testnet. Cambria players unhappy about rewards from hyped event due to hea...

• What’s the word for Tekken 8's patch being so bad that almost all game balance devs on the team were replaced?

• Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - Sui launching their own gaming specific stablecoin

• Sentiment Score - Coinbase being exclusive game for Riot Games. Could this signal Riot being open to blockchain integration in games in future?

• Bullish or Bullshit - Epic Games vs Apple ruling. Wi...