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• Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - McDonald's announces Doodles partnership

• True or False - are the days of 10x mints over? Overworld minted at 0.15E and opened trading at 1.5E. Will we see that again?

• What’s the Word? - Bandai Namco puts 200 employees in “expulsion rooms” to try to get them to resign?

• Agree or disagree - Riftstorm is the next big web3 game? Can the performance of their recent mint impact the perceived chances of game success?

• How much does balance matter in a game that isn’t necessarily geared towards esports or competitive style?

• What’s the “web3 game of the year” focusing purely on the way web3 was implemented in the best/unique/most interesting way?

• Is “pay to airdrop” going to be a thing?

• Does FDV token = real value?

• Are Memecoins killing Games?

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• Sandbox is giving out “The Sandie” awards to their best creators - does anyone care though?

• Agree or Disagree? Co-op is the key to indie games success. Lethal company, Palworld and Helldivers sell millions of copies due to social aspects and co-op play with friends

• Have InfiniGods cracked the code to P2A? Barrier of spending money or playing the game for a few months before P2A was introduced

• Are webstores inevitable for mobile games?

• Pokémon TCG Pocket players are convinced they know how to find packs with rare cards. Do you believe it?

• What’s the word for COD’s biggest opening weekend EVER and selling 500m+ copies? Now a best selling franchise alongside Tetris and Pokémon.

• The pro crypto president won, what does this mean for Web3 gaming?

• Genre, chain, team, funding, roadmap, time in development, hype on socials: What are you looking at when choosing which games to invest in for this bull run?

• Choose 1-3 coins you’re looking at

• WoW and COD release insane monetization, which one’s worse? ($90 mount or $20 “enhanced audio”)

• Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - Immutable gets a Wells Notice

• DRM to stop piracy, is it worth the cost of performance for paying users?

• Are new entrants to the shooter genre 'chads' for taking on this goliath or are they 'chumps' for fighting an impossible battle?

• OTG’s new political content pack (trump and kamala)

• Companies like Xsolla, Nexon, Zk, doubling down on web3 - bullish?

• How do you make AI Agent bots that aren’t net-negative on the experience for users?

• DEX first/only launches, explain the value prop on both sides/what's expected

• 288 days of P2A from Nifty Island - what are your expectations?

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• What’s the word for Netflix shutting down its AAA studio before they even launch a single game?

• OTG ups its anti-cheat and adds a bounty program - What are the odds this works?

• Crack the Code - Pokemon Pocket launching today - Breaking down some potential approaches that could work.

• Parallel are hosting a 250k esports tournament in Vegas - Bullish or Bullshit?

• GAM3S.GG awards! Who exceeded your expectations in 2024?

• Moonray lands PS5 release

• Indie vs AAA - going into 2025 which web3 assets do you expect to perform the best and which games do you expect to obtain the most players?

• TOKENOMICS RED FLAGS

• Who’s on your shortlist for content creator of the year in 2024?

We gathered the best of telegram gaming to discuss whether this platform is actually sustainable for games or if it's a dying fad

• Bigger Deal? - Jauwn finally gives a positive Web3 game review for OTG, or Riftstorm hits #1 trending free game on Steam

• Bullish or Bullshit - Poker platforms in Web3 - what’s the USP here?

• Animoca CEO, Robby Yung, says every blockchain project will “have a Telegram Complement” - Agree or Disagree?

• What's the Word for Sonium’s incubator program - 32 projects, 10 are games - is it a Big Deal, Little Deal or No Deal?

• Faraway announces Fchain on AVAX for their 9 games including Yuga IP

• Who do you think might be able to knock the current top 5 gaming coins off the podium whether it’s a pre-existing or future token?

• What other web3 games do you expect to follow in the footsteps of OTG?

• Give another game a shoutout who you think has been crushing it in the last few weeks or months

• What's the Word for an 89 minute version of Hamlet being filmed in GTA 5?

• Gabe Leydon says the OFF THE GRID moment is already bigger than the Axie moment - do you agree?

• Azra Games raises 42.7m series A funding - bullish or bullshit?

• MAYG launches $UNCHI meme token

• Off The Grid - 5.5 million wallets, 50+ million transactions, almost 150k concurrent viewers on twitch at one point. What does this actually mean?

• Off The Grid nodes - are they over or under valued?

• Contrasting Off The Grid with MAYG

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• What’s the word for Blizzard and Netflix fumbling Overwatch, Diablo and WoW tv series?

• Grok says web3 gaming broke through with Off the Grid, do you agree?

• Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - cloud gaming keeps getting better and Nvidia GeForce Now let’s you play without a gaming pc for $10-$20 a month

• Market Wars’ WoW spinoff - Bullish or Bullshit?

• Meta Quest 3 now $299 - is the reduced pricing the answer to VR adoption?

• Immutable Passport hits 3 million downloads

• Off the Grid Launches on Xbox

• Tier Lists in Web3

• MAYG Launches with 800k FDV

• 77-bit announces a cyberpunk MMO battle royale all in browser

• Big Deal / Little Deal / No Deal? - Pudgy Penguin Arcade machines

• Fact or Fiction - You should not TGE in the current market

• Storytime - Paul Bettner’s new big announcement

• Avalanche launches $40m builder grants program

• Simplifying User Acquisition in web3

• Are you still looking at games based on ecosystem/chain or are you strictly looking for good games?

• Dr Disrespect claims “he has a feeling he will be back” at Midnight Society soon

• Hamster Kombat down 30% after launch, currently around $500m market cap - What does this tell you about Telegram games and the future of their coins being listed?

• Bullish or Bullshit - Dookie Dash Unclogged

• Parallel unveils new 3d shooter using Avatar assets

• What would move you to purchase a gaming NFT or token in the current market?

• Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - Ronin incubates 7 new games

• Dookie Dash is coming with another $1m tournament, what do you expect?

• Parallel’s new 3d shooter, will it affect $PRIME price?

• 7 new games coming to Ronin

• Forgotten Runiverse open beta - What’s the word for another Ronin game doing great numbers early on, and where do you expect it to go from here?

• Catizen is dominating - is this the peak or is there promise of much more in Telegram gaming?

• Are we closer or further away from mass adoption? What side are you on?

• What’s the word for the hostage feature with proximity chat in Black Ops 6?

• Bullish or Bearish on Telegram games TGEs?

• What’s the word for AI agents creating civilization in Minecraft?

• Retro GameStops - Doomed or Destined?

• Gam3sgg article states 4.2 million daily unique active wallets...at what point do you get genuinely excited?

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• Grapes has been sold - Bullish or Bullshit on their future?

• Crypto Kitties is now back with a telegram game - do you care?

• Binance listings for TON games - do we expect more telegram games to follow or will this open the doorway for more games in general to start getting listed again?

• CCP / Eve Frontiers is coming - do we think established web2 projects will play the speculative game at all, or is this going to be a more sustainable product?

• Flappy Bird is now a TG game - there have been countless clones of Flappy Bird but now there’s an official release as a TG game that will have web3 features - what can make this stand out from all the clones?

• Why do we love Pixel games in Web3?

• What’s the word - Crypto Unicorns major pivot

• Project Awakening - Predictions & Expectations - is it possible that Eve Online is the perfect fit for Web3?

• How to handle rival releases - should Spectre Divide rush to market before Deadlock or wait until some of the hype fades away?

• Storytime with Kohji - Parallel vs Hearthstone

• Gaming toxicity up from 68% to 74% - is it possible to reverse this trend, how would you attempt to do it?

• Top 5 games of August - dump one, add one

• Friend.tech shuts down after generating 90 million dollars in protocol fees, 44 million of which went to the protocol

• Do you think the SuiPlay handheld gaming device can be a success and what are your expectations of its quality?

• You can only pick one play to airdrop campaign, which one do you pick and why?

• 0-10k challenge being done by gamers who are looking to airdrop farm

• What’s the word for Zynga divesting from Sugartown?

• Big brain or big lame - MapleStory releases tokenomics as a “token-comic”

• Illuvium is currently on fire, and not in a good way - does this inferno mark the beginning of the end of their story or can they rise like a phoenix from the ashes?

• Bullish or Bullshit - Soneium seems to be jumping head first into Web3 as the title sponsor of Token 2049

• New PlayStation game Concord is so bad it’s taken offline 2 weeks after release and Sony is offering full refunds

• Are projects that are “building the next Steam” delusional?

• Sugartown gets bought out, Zynga and Take-Two leave Web3

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• Gamescom debrief - what games won?

• OpenSea receives a Wells notice from the SEC claiming that the NFTs on their platform are securities

• SOULBOUND is doing a Gamified SBT and the art is adorable - all you have to do to get one of these collectables is:

1. Go to souldbound.gg
2. Click on the custom link: https://soulbound.gg/quests/code_quest/463
3. Create an account and click "join my community"
4. Enter code: gamified#82

• Xterio's game pivots direction

• Big Deal / Little Deal / No Deal - Sony makes its new blockchain

• What's the Word? 'Kingmakers' secures a movie deal, 'Black Myth: Wukong' breaks records, 'Deadlock' has 90k players during early access

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• Simplifying the future of TON gaming - Telegram games suck now, but what does this mean for the long term?

• Sony announces Soneium, their new L1 blockchain - why would Sony launch their own chain instead of going with an established one like Skale or Avalanche?

• Ex-Riot alumni have raised $450m for 25 different projects - is there any validity in the belief that previous success at a new studio = future success?

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• For or Against - Crypto Startup Acquires a Popular 'Roblox' Stock Trading Game

• What’s the Word for ‘The Bornless’ asking everyone to avoid any mention of Web3, blockchain or crypto on IGN and game trailers on socials?

• 'Dimensionals' officially rugged Web3 - final thoughts?

• What’s the Word for ‘Monopoly Go’ surpassing 3B in revenue in under 18 months since launch?

• Would you rather choose a game with 10/10 gameplay and a 5/10 story OR a game with a 10/10 story and 5/10 gameplay?

This entire episode covered 'Dimensionals' leaving Web3 gaming. This was a heavy piece of news that dropped and we hope that getting to listen to the differing perspectives from our panelists helps to offer a diverse educational standpoint on the topic.

We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week, enjoy!

• Big Deal / Little Deal / No Deal - Off The Grid Hits Playstation 5

• The numbers are in, what’s your reaction to the first half of the Esports World Cup?

• What are the odds that Deadrop can pull off a launch by November sans Dr Disrespect?

• Fake Ads - Chad or Chump?

• What's the Word for everyone launching their own chain and it “being as easy as memecoins”?

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• Everyone is saying Off the Grid is 10/10 - does this or does this not mean it'll be a Web3 success?

• Which team are you taking a bet on - A project sitting at 100m+ market cap with less upside but more established OR a project sitting at 5-30m market cap with significantly more risk but significantly more upside?

• Digidaigaku update has arrived - Gabe has been building all along. What does this mean for the game itself?

• Crypto Gorilla says insider information doesn’t exist, just “information” and that it’s your job to find it. Do you agree with this, and where do you go to find information?

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• What’s the word for Project Dragon from Yuga/Otherside?

• Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - Microsoft/Blizzard are opening a studio with the purpose of creating AA franchise spin offs

• Game Informer (from Gamestop) is shutting down after 30+ years

• Projects selling tokens from their treasury on the open market

• Top 5 games of July from GAM3S.GG. Dump one and add one

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• Otherside’s “Project Dragon”, what is impressive about having this many concurrent users?

• With the market down bad, how does this look through the lens of Web3 gaming?

• NFTs vs COINS in the same game - why do you invest in which, especially during times when the market is down?

• What's the word? Walmart and IKEA making real world jobs in Roblox?

• A staggering 56% of Gen Z gamers say they prioritize styling their virtual selves over their physical in real life appearance - Over / Under 75% by 2030?

• Chad or Chump? Stardew Valley CEO says "I will never charge money for a DLC or update for as long as I live."

• Crack the code - What is the best way to reward your player and holder base when it comes to airdrops?

• Change my mind - has the death of royalties from secondary trading killed gaming NFTs?

• Is the Tier 1 CEX effect over?

• Over HALF the current market cap of $PIRATE is staked. Why would a team want this?

• How do questing platforms differentiate themselves and really make an impact on the market?

• Helika releases top performing gaming collections by volume over the last 30 days

• 2.2 million people willing to pay $100 to play College Football ‘25, 3 days early

• What’s the word for MAYG airdropping 40% of their token supply to gamers?

• Fact or Fiction - will we see a blockchain from Epic Games before 2030?

• Bullish or Bullshit - pay to play to earn

• What game would you love to see as a 90's style remake?

• Deadrop update - are we seeing what we need to see from them in order to be excited?

• Otherside is introducing betting

• Heroes of Mavia hits 5 million downloads - what's happening here?

• Is there a common thread between winning NFTs?

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• Castaways launching another game that’s web2

• What’s the Word? - surge in “massage gun” sales as people use them to super charge their in-game tapping of TON games

• Bullish or Bullshit - NFTs as token vouchers. What’s an alternative utility you would actually pay for?

• RAID BOSS - Option 1: Mid-level gaming experience, web3 native team. Option 2: Highly experienced gaming team, inexperienced in web3 but web3 curious

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• $MOCA launch reactions

• Shatterline integrates HV-MTL

• Digi Daigoneku - what's the potential investment thesis?

• Should we invest in games launching into the current market?

• MAYG moving to XAI and Forgotten Runiverse moving to Ronin - is this a big deal?

• What's the word for The Finals losing all hype and traction?

• NFTs aren't dead - according to Dapp Radar

• China vs USA monthly gamer spend

• Are co-op games king?

• Prediction reviews from previous episodes

• Voodoo is being sued for supposedly fixing in-game outcomes in their wagering games

• GAM3S.GG's top 5 games of June - Wanderers, The Beacon, Moonfrost, Shardbound and Pirate Nation

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• Beginning or ending - is crowd funding via NFTs something that should be shamed or accepted?

• Games with potential but no major web3 elements - should Sparkball be something people look to allocate investment in based on the merit of the gameplay?

• Open Campus - the gamified learning grant

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• What's the Word? - Steam Users have spent $19 billion on games they’ve never played

• What’s next - Play to airdrop has gone from being a novel new concept to feeling overdone. Is it dead? What’s the next meta?

• Expanding onto multiple chains as a game, Doomed or Destined?

• What does it take to become a beloved IP in gaming? What makes Mario and Zelda truly special?

• Notcoin aims for “Fresh Start” and to become the “Netflix of Gaming” - What are the odds they do it?

• GOATs vs WOATs - web3 game genres

• The Beacon mints out, simplify what this means for the greater web3 market

• Trailers that look like garbage - does that instantly disqualify a game?

• Tech in a minute - explaining 404 NFTs and if they have any use cases for gaming

• BLAST - what are your curiosities post TGE?

• Gaming valuations - what are you looking at and why?

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• Bullish or Bullsh*t - tournaments for web2 games using USDC for payouts

• Quickfire - is Blast going to last?

• What’s the BIGGEST deal for web3? - Konami launching a chain, Maplestory building a web3 game or Off the Grid as one of the best web3 games?

• Tokens - launch now or later?

• War of the Wolves - The Beacon Mint

• Which is the King of Gaming Chains?

• Beacon's Mint Price

• Dr. Disrespect Fired?

• What’s the Word for Champions Tactics / Ubisoft’s mint?

• What’s the word for the game “Banana” game almost breaking CCU records on Steam?

• Over/Under - Nintendo Switch 2 selling more than Switch 1 (33m units)

• Big Deal? 29 of 40 major gaming studios are using block chain to some degree

• The Fallout Show - Quickfire + Over/Under $65m in additional sales and revenue by way of people going back to games in the franchise

• Irrelevant or Inevitable? - AAA gaming on mobile. Assassin’s Creed launches on iPhone 15.

• What is a “FTUE” or First Time User Experience?

• Infinigods hits 500k downloads with King of Destiny

• Pirate Nation TGE wildly celebrated as a “for the gamers” airdrop with a massive (30%? of tokens) allocation for community participants

• AI arena sits at the intersection of two of the hottest narratives in crypto; AI + Gaming

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• What's the bigger deal? MetaMask is now a game launcher or Animoca's Realm ID system is a universal login for all of their games
• Quick Fire: In 30 seconds or less each, is Web3 gaming dead?
• Rug or Recovery? $BLOCK Games continues to flounder 2 months after TGE. What advice would you give to an organization in this situation?
• Educate Me: Do Web3 games actually need 3+ projects?
• Over/Under: Sandbox raises another $20M at a $1B valuation
• Follow-Up: Do we think a mobile version, enhanced creator tools, etc., will be enough to justify this additional $20M?
• Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal: Hamster Kombat has 100M users
• Gamified Panelist of the Week

• The fall of GALA and web3 game studios

• Foundations in Web3 Gaming - what are they, and should we care?

• Simplify and explain Nodes in 15 seconds

• NFTs are dead - Tokens are dead - Nodes are printing. What’s the move on this?

• Do Web3 gaming founders need to have previous experience to be successful in Web3?

We've got a lineup of exciting topics that you're sure to love. Here's what's on the agenda:

• Quick Fire: Web3 Gaming Presence at Consensus?
• Empathize or Condemn? Gala
• Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal? Two Famous PFP Projects Announcing a Game in the Same Week. Pudgy’s Game Claims to Be a Mobile Party Game Set to Launch in 2025, and Sappy Seals Looks to Be a Creature Collector but Still TBD.
• When Can a Founder Sell?
• Gamified Panelist of the Week

Tune in and join the fun!