Web3 Gaming Recap: Elon Musk recently tried out the "𝕏" video game streaming system; Gala Games Partners with Award-Winning Film “Common Ground”; Yuga Labs Blocks Mara Trading on Major NFT Marketplaces & More

Welcome to the latest edition of ChainPlay's Newsletter, where we dive into the most exciting and innovative Web3 games of the week.

Reporting on Web3 Gaming industry trends, investments, growth, and more… You can find all of what you need in ChainPlay.gg 

Table of Contents

• Latest Web3 Games of the Week

• Latest VC Deal Flow of the Week

• Weekly’s Top 10 Gainers

• Weekly's Top Web3 Games News Hot Stories

• Upcoming Free Gaming Mint

Reporting on Web3 gaming industry trends, investments, growth, and more…

Latest Web3 Games of the Week

Despite the recent decline in funding, one sector remains markedly strong: Web3 Gaming. 
Don't forget that crypto gaming is still one of crypto's biggest retail adoption verticals.

Latest VC Deal Flow

According to Messari's Q3 report, The gaming sector amassed a handful of early-stage deals that helped it become the third-highest funded sector of Q3 with $249 million raised across 33 deals. When compared to other user-facing applications in the consumer sector, gaming accounted for 67% of capital invested during Q3.

• Paima receives 1.4M USD grant from the Cardano to build Autonomous World infrastructure

• Wodo Network received a $3 million investment from VBT Yazilim

• Yuga Labs, Web3 leader and home of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), Meebits, and 10KTF, announced a new strategic investment in Hadean, the spatial computing company.

• NexGami secured $2M in seed funding, propelling it to a $20M valuation. The round, which included Polygon Ventures, Fundamental Labs, and Ledger Capital

• Qor Gaming, LLC has secured a major investment from TTI Gaming Holdings, LLC as the lead investor for their ongoing funding round

• Pixion Games secured $5.5M funding to accelerate Fableborne development, including a tournament platform and LiveOps features

Weekly’s Top 10 Gainers

Weekly's Top Web3 Games News Hot Stories

• A new Mojo Melee champion NFT is now available for Amazon Prime subscribers, along with non-NFT items in Web3 game My Pet Hooligan.

• Nitro Nation Launches Onto Mobile with Over 100K Downloads

• Elon Musk recently tried out the "𝕏" video game streaming system

• 72% of top game companies have embraced Web3 but only 24% are actively developing

• Dr Disrespect Releases Trailer for "Midnight Ride" in Upcoming NFT Game, Deadrop

• Gala Games Partners with Award-Winning Film “Common Ground”: A Journey to Regenerate and Innovate

• Yuga Labs Blocks Mara Trading on Major NFT Marketplaces

• OpenSea Unveils OpenSea Studio to Help Creators Easily Launch NFT Projects

• ZTXofficial Playtest 2 is live, you can participate in a token airdrop

• Yuga Labs announces US layoffs as part of broader restructuring

• Pudgy Penguins Debuts NFT Toys In Smyths Toys Stores Across The United Kingdom

• PayPal applies for NFT marketplace patent for on- or off-chain asset trading

• Memeland waitlist submission has ended

• Binance-backed NFTb completed its first gaming free mint on SKALE becoming a top NFT marketplace daily by users on Dappradar

• Battle of Kingdoms: Global release gets featured on Google Play & Google Play for PC & is now also available on iOS

• South Korean gaming titan Wemade taps Chainlink for interoperable Web3 gaming ecosystem

• Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA) is calling industry professionals to share perspectives to feed into the 2023 State of the Industry Report

• Metacade, the world's first community-led gaming platform, announces a collaboration with Polygon Labs for 100 new games

• Animoca Brands Japan, partners with Drecom Corporation the Japanese gaming app to expand Japan's web3 gaming sector

• Shrapnel Studio Head Don Norbury discusses the game’s NFTs, team-based gameplay plans, and changes in game maps

• ESE Entertainment (TSXV:ESE) has notched a collaboration agreement with Poznan Game Arena and Metapro to organize the Web3 Game Arena

• Grease Monkey Games has unveiled its latest trailer for Torque Drift 2, the drifting game is set in a fictitious Japanese city

• Several games to look out for in October, including Gods Unchained Season Two, MegaWorld's Express Delivery, Sugartown's NFT sale, and My Pet Hooligan's early access

• TTT, a Web3-powered PvP shooter game is making waves in the gaming landscape with the excitement of GTA-style adventures

Upcoming Free Gaming Mint

- SkyArk Chronicles
SkyArk Chronicles is a decentralized game creation system and developed multiple games set in different timelines as a tribute to Satoshi Nakamoto in his creation of the Sky Realms incubated by Binance.

Number of winners: 5
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- Persona
Persona is a groundbreaking avatar collection at the heart of the next-level gaming ecosystem.

Number of winners: 50
Mint here: https://www.premint.xyz/persona/ 

- Tales of Elleria
Tales of Elleria (TELL) is a GameFi project, a metaverse, a market of rare utility-driven NFTs, and a liquidity pool (LP) opportunity that amalgamates in a three-dimensional world known as Elleria.

Enter Free-mint here: https://app.talesofelleria.com/ 

- Nitro League
Nitro League is a decentralized play-to-earn racing game, that brings together great gameplay, token economies, and the metaverse.

Mint Date: TBA

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