• What’s the word for one of the most viral indie dev sensations on Roblox ever?

• Steel man - new game mode where you have to steel man an argument for it. This week: Play to earn is the future.

• Hot or Not Take - vote whether it’s a hot take or not and explain why: New live service games are dead on arrival.

• Final Boss - new final topic game mode. This week you choose one of the following topics and give a hot take on it. You have to pick one, no fence sitting:

1. Fornite back on the app store
2. Battlefront 2 just broke its ATH concurrent player record on Steam. The game is 8 years old, no updates for 5 years.
3. The Activision Blizzard merger finally closed

This week's panelists include:

- Wills Spangler from Avalanche / AVAX

- Vidar from Mure App and Yurei

- Gnoc from Magic Eden

- Jerry Singer from WolvesDAO

- Kohji Nagata the founder of Parallel

- Kevin Lambert from Koin Games at Project O

- Tony Valcarcel from Glitter Cloud Solutions

- Jon Radoff from Beamable

- Michael Christine from Andrometa

...and as always my co-host Lemz from the ETH Lizards!

• New Game mode: Zombies - Illuvium, Big Time, The Beacon

• Ember Sword and Nyan Heroes; two games that both raised A LOT of money AND were pretty hyped shut down last week…what’s going on here?

• Virtual Genesis tokens - who’s paying for this?

• What does LOLland have to do to be considered a “success”?

• Game Closures - Over/Under we’ve seen 25% of the shutdowns for 2025

• What’s the word for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's success?

• Quickfire - Will FIFA Rivals flip NFT Rivals?

• What’s the solution to reward structures in web3 games? - Maplestory players complaining about earning potential and changes to drop rates from testnet. Cambria players unhappy about rewards from hyped event due to heavy distribution to mindless farming.

• What’s the Word for Marathon / Bungie seemingly stealing the aesthetic of Marathon, and how would you deal with it from the C Suite?