A yr on from its earlier annual report, Game7 has launched one other complete tome on the State of Web3 Gaming, though with the caveat that its information seize ended thirtieth September 2024, so successfully this can be a report about 3/4 of 2024!
A number of the headlines are already well-known.
Telegram and TON have been the large winners when it comes to being the place the place many blockchain video games launch. Equally – and because it by no means tires of telling us – Immutable noticed essentially the most progress when it comes to sport migrating from different blockchains, notably from Polygon. Arbitrum and Avalanche additionally skilled inflows. Lastly, whereas Steam continues to dam blockchain options, Epic Video games Retailer has been a well-liked platform for the distribution of such video games, even when we haven’t but seen any breakout hits from its differentiation but.
Nonetheless, as an organisation which runs its personal Mantle L2 blockchain, the place Game7 has surfaced extra attention-grabbing info is by trying on the wider state of infrastructure.
It notes that 2022 and 2023’s developments to the announcement and launch of extra L2 and L3 blockchain has accelerated throughout 2024, particularly when it comes to particular gaming L3s akin to Xai, Proof of Play’s Apex and Boss chains, Treasurechain, B3, Aavegotchi’s Geist and many others and many others.
In fact, the overwhelming majority of those chains are Ethereum-compatible, with EVM chains accounting for round 70% of such infrastructure.
You’ll be able to take a look at the whole 59 web page report – which is emailed gated – right here.
Knowledge fiend and editor-at-large Jon Jordan has been writing/talking in regards to the video games business since 1999. He predicts blockchain is the following nice disruption and was the launch editor of BlockchainGamer.biz. Jon is a video games business veteran: ex-Edge, Develop, Gamasutra, Searching for Alpha, PocketGamer.biz. You’ll be able to contact him by way of [email protected]
