Yield Guild Games is featured in Play-to-Earn, a documentary set in the Philippines.
Yield Guild Games is featured in Play-to-Earn, a documentary set in the Philippines.
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How play-to-earn gaming brings rewards to players

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

Play-to-earn is a new phrase that has a lot of people excited about a new opportunity in gaming. And in this case, the biggest party that could benefit is the players themselves.

We had a panel to discuss this phenomenon at our GamesBeat Summit Next event, moderated by Amy Wu, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Speaking on the session were Piers Kicks of Bitkraft and Delphi Digital; Miko Matsumura, general partner at Gumi Cryptos Capital; and Gabby Dizon, CEO of Yield Guild Games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.