Gabe Leydon’s Limit Break has $200M to make a new kind of blockchain game

Gabe Leydon was a pioneer of free-to-play mobile games at Machine Zone, which was sold for $300 million in 2020 to AppLovin. Now he’s back with Limit Break, a blockchain game company with $200 million in funding.

Leydon left Game of War maker Machine Zone in 2018 to explore cryptocurrencies. His initial attempts didn’t work out, but in August 2021 he teamed up with his Machine Zone cofounder Halbert Nakagawa to create a game with a new kind of blockchain-based business model dubbed “free to own.”