gm/gn gamers,

Market may be down but we at No Re are still up to our regularly scheduled content and updates. We’re not wizards over here and can’t draw you a TA explaining why [relevant meme of the day] is going to 10000x, but we can guarantee you that we’re still early over here in gaming and that the sentiment is reaching near ATHs.

Enough macro/micro/tokenomics jargon, it’s getting late into Thursday so we’ll just dive straight into it. Here’s what you got going on:

• Insert Coin to Continue: The latest funding rounds in web3 gaming.

• Co-op Campaigns: Who’s teaming up in the gaming world?

• Change Log: Updates, patches, and new features from games we’ve covered.

• Release Radar: Upcoming games, playtests, and drops.

• Other News: The other things that happened in web3 gaming this week.

• Bonus Loot: Cool media we’ve been digesting this week.

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The latest funding rounds in web3 gaming.

• A16z Gaming Fund ($600M Fund). A16z raised a $600M for a new gaming fund as part of a broader $7.2B venture raise focusing on apps, infra, growth and American dynamism.

• Avalon ($10M). Multi-genre MMO Avalon raised $10M in a funding round led by BITKRAFT and HASHED with participation from Spartan Capital, YGG, Mechanism Capital, GuildFi and others.

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Who’s teaming up in the gaming world?

• Avalon x Mon Protocol. Avalon is joining the Mon Protocol ecosystem and incorporating Pixelmon characters into its game.

• Elixer Games x Seedify. Gaming platform and launcher Elixir is teaming up with Seedify to further incubation, funding, and launchpad services to the web3 gaming industry. Wagmi vibes at an ATH.

• Unseen Battlegrounds x Sequence. Strategy-based game UBG will integrate Sequence ahead of its upcoming release and share gameplay alpha on Sequence’s official channels.

• World Player League x SKALE. WLP and SKALE are teaming up to build new platform integrations for the gamer-owned network using SKALE.

• XPLA x Hexlant. Blockchain service provider Hexlant partnered with XPLA and will join the XPLA ecosystem as a validator.

Change Log

Updates, patches, and new features from games we’ve covered.

• Axie Infinity introduced a new daily earning mechanism, the Bounty Board.

• Crypto Unicorns added Berry/Material exchanges, custom Tribe names and other improvements to its game ecosystem.

• Dark Throne added skill enhancements and new event quests in its v2.2.0 update.

• Illuvium opened registration for its Private Beta 4 alongside a $20M P2A campaign.

• Legends of the Mara launched Kodamara Fusion, allowing players to evolve Mara with Catalyst and Sediment Fragments.

• Pirate Nation updated its Quests and Bounties panels, improved Gauntlet Chest stability, and announced its new Jolly Roger program for BOOTY points.

Release Radar

Upcoming games, playtests, and drops.

• 🎮 My Neighbor Alice (Beta S1): Live

• 🎮 ACE Arenas (Beta): Live

• 🎮 MetalCore (Closed Beta): April 23

• 🎮 Forgotten Playlands (Release): April 25

• 🎮 Chain of Alliance (Beta): April 29

• 🪙 Moonveil Studios, $MORE (Airdrop): Ongoing

• 🪙  XBorg, $XBG (Presale): April 25

• 🖼️ Castle (Tarot Mint): April 20

• 🖼️ Destiny of Gods (Free Mint): April 25

Other News

• Animoca Brands’ latest financial disclosure showed the company had $1.8 billion in token reserves for subsidiaries, $1.3 billion in liquid tokens, and $542 million in cash.

• Crypto Unicorn’s RBW will be delisted from exchanges on April 24 to prepare for the launch of its Xai-based CU token.

• Faraway acquired HV-MTL and Legends of the Mara from Yuga Labs.

• Immutable launched its Main Quest reward system for the Immutable zkEVM.

• Spellborne creator Mon Studio announced its pre-season “Prepare the Hunt” event for airdrop points ahead of its beta launch.

Bonus Loot

Cool media we’ve been digesting this week.

• 📘 3 Key Changes to Expect in South Korea's Virtual Asset Market Following the Election, Tiger Research (Read)

• 🎧 Building Sustainable Game Economies: The Three Design Pillars, Edward Castronova (Listen)

• 📺 Game Economy, Timothy Cain (Watch)