The DeanBeat: Blockchain gaming companies raised $476M in the first half of 2021 Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 6, 2021 7 min We knew that gaming grew during the pandemic, and game investments and acquisitions have seen a boom as well. If you combine games with... Continue Reading 7 min
Yield Guild Games raises $4 million for the play-to-earn era of games Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 16, 2021 5 min Yield Guild Games has raised $4 million in funding, and that’s a big validation of the company’s belief that players should be able to... Continue Reading 5 min
How a rural Filipino community is earning a living playing an NFT game Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 13, 2021 3 min Yes, it is possible to make a living playing games. A rural community in the Philippines has figured that out, as chronicled in a... Continue Reading 3 min
Yield Guild Games will let players earn income from NFT games Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 3, 2021 7 min The time has come to make money from playing games, according to Yield Guild Games, which has raised $1.325 million to enable this to... Continue Reading 7 min
The DeanBeat: How non-fungible tokens (NFTs) will change games Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 26, 2021 8 min I was searching on Clubhouse again this week for the social zeitgeist about games. On the social audio app, I listened to a session... Continue Reading 8 min