Sky Mavis' market strategy, Night Crows launch, & CCP's web3 vision
Blockchain gaming roundup, 15th March
What’s caught our attention this pre-GDC week?
Well, while we had planned to mainly focus on the global launch of Wemade’s MMORPG Night Crows, the news was overshadowed by a more recent announcement from Sky Mavis’ co-founder and COO Alexander Larsen, that the company is immediately parting ways with two developers – ACT Games and Bowled.io. Although not too surprising in itself, the rather sharp statement on X sparked a discussion about Sky Mavis’ web3 market strategy and increasing confidence as leading gaming blockchain.
In other weekly Ronin news:
Moving on, we do go into some depth about Night Crows, particularly looking at its ambitious tokenomics and progressively challenging gameplay. Naturally, it’s also our Game of the Week.
We were also excited to get more details this week of CCP Games’ EVE Online blockchain game Project Awakening. Described as a single-shard survival game, Project Awakening is set for a playtest in May 2024, which will allow players to engage with programmable game systems and build their own features within the world. More than that, it’s built on Lattice’s MUD framework, which is designed for fully onchain games on Ethereum and EVM blockchains, and aims to become an open source project as part of CCP’s broader web3 vision.
On the investment front:
Apeiron raised $660,000 in its first round token sale, followed by $1.98 million in its second round,
Pangu announced a $10 million funding round for MetaCene,
Studio 369 raised $5 million for MetalCore,
9 Lives Interactive announced a $3 million funding round for Nyan Heroes, and
Carbonated has raised $13 million for MadWorld.
Additional news
Nexon’s MapleStory Universe migrates from Polygon to Avalanche
Studio 369 CTO Dan Nikolaides on building mech combined arms shooter MetalCore
Animoca Brands and KACST join forces to bolster web3 gaming in Saudi Arabia
Ambrus Studio teams up with Layer 1 blockchain Sui for its latest E4C titles
Heading to GDC next week? Grab your last minute tickets to PG Connects 18-19th March and come say hi!