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BlockchainGamer.biz's hottest tales of 2025
It was a difficult 12 months for blockchain video games, however volatility generates information, so no less than there have been loads of sizzling tales for us to write down about in 2025.
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10. First Pudgy Occasion NFTs are dwell on Mythos
One of many huge recreation launches of the 12 months, Pudgy Occasion mixed the gameplay of Fall Guys with the crypto-centric Pudgy Penguins IP, all held collectively inside Legendary Video games’ mass market-focused Mythos blockchain ecosystem. The sport launch was strong with over a million downloads, however individuals had been extra focused on the truth that Pudgy Occasion’s NFTs went dwell on the Legendary Market previous to the sport itself going dwell.
9. Professionals: What’s been essentially the most distinguished shift in web3 gaming in 2025?
Throughout 2025, our month-to-month Professionals group has gone from power to power, with an rising variety of the sector’s thought leaders discussing how you can deal with the large challenges and alternatives going through blockchain video games. All of them are value studying should you haven’t already, however the one that basically captured everybody’s consideration was October’s article masking essentially the most vital tendencies to-date.
8. MapleStory Universe concludes genesis check because it preps for NXPC token launch
One other recreation with a robust declare to have been one among 2025’s most vital launches was Nexpace’s MapleStory N, the PC-based MMORPG which underpins the broader MapleStory Universe ecosystem. Launched on fifteenth Might, MapleStory N threw up loads of tales, particularly post-launch, however the one which was learn essentially the most was the information in regards to the finish of its testnet program, previous to the primary launch of its NXPC token.
7. Pixels isn’t worthwhile … but
Ronin social farming RPG Pixels skilled a difficult 12 months wherein it turned clear what wasn’t working however the journey to scaling an expertise that was working by way of constructing an ecosystem and capturing that worth within the value of its PIXEL token was complicated and irregular. Nonetheless, CEO Luke Barwikowski stays dedicated to each the method and the objective of constructing a recreation and a wider ecosystem of video games and apps the place the Return of Reward Spend hits and maintains a constructive degree that’s larger than 1.
6. Goat Gaming unveils its money-making Telegram AI brokers, AlphaGOATs
One other challenge that iterated quick and ended 2025 someplace very completely different from the place it began the 12 months was Mighty Bear Recreation’s Goat Gaming. Initially it deliberate to launch a group of AlphaGoat NFTs, every of which was an AI agent who would generate tokens for its homeowners. That particular imaginative and prescient was hit by the collapse in sentiment round gaming tokens. Nonetheless, the broader imaginative and prescient nonetheless lives on within the form of gacha rewards platform Seize Enjoyable, which the now rebranded firm Wearemighty efficiently launched in October.
5. Clearing the decks for a attainable IPO, Animoca lastly will get its 2021 accounts audited
As one would anticipate from one thing that may very well be considered as a holding firm with dozens of its personal tasks and a whole bunch of minority investments, a lot of 2025 was taken up with Animoca Manufacturers’ positioning round its deliberate trade itemizing. This was lastly introduced in November with the information of a $2.4 billion reverse-listing on the US Nasdaq, however a key precursor was cleansing up the long-standing accounting points surrounding the corporate’s 2021 monetary audit.
4. First 30 video games coming to Line Messenger’s dapp portal in January
One other story highlighting early 12 months positively was the launch technique for Line Messenger’s web3 initiative, which leveraged its HTML5-based dapp portal, permitting hundreds of thousands of gamers to entry experiences working on the Kaia blockchain with none complicated crypto options. Not all of those video games discovered success in fact, however Delabs Video games’ Ragnarok Libre and Kaia Basis’s personal Slime Miner demonstrated that top high quality experiences might discover largescale audiences, with Slime Miner, particularly, attracting extra 13 million gamers.
3. FIFA Rivals, Pudgy Occasion and extra: How Legendary Video games hits 100 million wallets
There’s nothing like ambition to drive curiosity and Legendary Video games’ CEO John Linden was glad to deploy his high weapons when it got here to speaking up the corporate’s plans for 2025 and past. Specifically, with the World Cup in the summertime of 2026 anticipated to strongly enhance uptake for its FIFA Rivals recreation, the objective stays large – 100 million gamers throughout its complete portfolio.
2. Why CCP Video games isn’t constructing EVE Frontier however the instruments to construct EVE Frontier
As 2025 progressed so Icelandic developer CCP Video games upped its recreation, notably its totally onchain recreation EVE Frontier, which continues to iterate via progressive improvement cycles. Nonetheless CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson is eager to level out that the studio isn’t attempting to construct a recreation, it’s attempting to construct the instruments to permit different individuals to construct varied video games and experiences throughout the EVE universe.
1. Craft World’s play-to-airdrop Venture Voyager now dwell
The one huge launch on the Ronin blockchain in 2025, Voya Video games’ idle resourcer Craft World garnered loads of launch vitality because of its pre-launch Venture Voyager occasion, which noticed gamers competing on the leaderboard for an allocation of its utility COIN token.