28 March 2025 | Weekly news roundup

[0:25] Ultra has appointed a new COO, on top of the new CEO added in December 2024.

[2:00] Ultra is a Steam-on-blockchain distro platform. It's suffering from the cold start problem.

[3:00] Ashes of Mankind is its first party shooter, going into early access in Q2.

[4:30] The role of the CEO in modern business and why Ultra's co-CEO structure didn't work.

[6:40] But the new CEO and COO don't have any previous game industry experience.

[8:04] Gunzilla's GUN token is going live on Binance on 31st March.

[10:50] Once the mainnet is live, we'll finally get an idea how many people are playing Off The Grid.

[13:32] Gunzilla has also bought Game Informer for reasons no-one can understand.

[16:10] The Sandbox Alpha Season 5 goes live on 31st March with dinosaurs.[20:43] There are moves to shut down Arbitrum's Gaming Catalyst Program - DAOs a mess!

[27:56] Boomland has taken over MultiversX mobile shooter Cantina Royale.

[34:09] Jon's been playing Immutable MMORPG RavenQuest and enjoying it -- it's our GotW.

[36:00] RavenQuest's QUEST token is going live today in-game, with a proper TGE coming "soon".

[41:28] Immortal Rising 2's IMT token is live, and Jon has staked his $3-worth of the airdrop.