14 March 2025 | Weekly news roundup

[0:34] Much anticipated game Wildcard dropped its whitepaper.

[1:09] CEO Paul Bettner worked on Age of Empires, created Words With Friends. Very smart.

[3:00] This was the first time we got insight about how its blockchain works and it's not the game.

[4:08] The blockchain bit is Thousands, an integrated Twitch-like spectator platform.

[4:34] Wildcard is a F2P PC/console game with cosmetic IAPs. No NFTs. No crypto.

[5:40] The WC token is 100% for the community. 20% has already been airdropped.

[6:32] You can stake the token and also use it for prediction markets about the game's esport events.

[7:55] There will also be Wildorgs, which will act as team franchises.

[8:51] It looks like Wildcard will use blockchain for the things it's good for.

[10:36] It's interesting that the developer and the investors aren't getting any tokens.

[12:33] While Wildcard isn't using Apptokens, we see more games using Apptoken-style controls.

[14:31] Pre-registrations for Axie Infinity: Atia's Legacy have passed 2.5 million.

[24:44] For a successful web3 game, you need people spending fiat currency as well.

[26:06] Even in this market, some games are growing - Alien Worlds, Nine Chronicles, Axie etc.

[27:42] What's interesting are games that couldn't exist without using

[35:47] "If EVE Online is Rome, EVE Frontier is the building of New York," says CCP Games' CEO.

[38:46] EVE Frontier: it's like CCP Games building a specific sandbox platform for EVE games.

[40:25] What's really interesting is what new sort of games can we build with blockchain.