Enter Gaming's New Phase

AUG 26
Hi friends, today is all about resources, direction and future. Hope you’re doing good.

This week:

Gaming x Crypto quick-links.
Netflix ain’t slowing down.
Whole set of new games and trailers.
Surprise collabs.

But first...
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Made by Franco

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Enter Gaming's Next Phase

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It feels that last week we jumped another mentality wall in terms of crypto.

Players

People who believed in blockchain, NFTs and crypto, but were still a bit scared, got loose and started spending juicy amounts of money.
FOMO folks are having breathing issues right now.
People who had no clue about it, now understand the value of it.
Crypto early-adopters are rich af, buying NFTs from a lounge chair in Bali. Absolute legends.

But let’s focus on gaming x crypto.

We’re not even close to the potential relationship between gaming and blockchain, but we are already moving. Today’s Beer Talk will just be a small gathering of things I thought would be interesting for you to see:

Reads
Infinity Revenue, Infinite Possibilities, by Packy McCormick.
The Metaverse Primer, by Matthew Ball.
Crypto gaming companies raised $476M in the first half of 2021.

Games
Zed Run
Sorare
Axie Infinity
Gods Unchained
Guild of Guardians

Exited About
GOALS

Virtual Worlds
Decentraland
The Sandbox

Music
Royal just came out a few hours ago, get early access. This will help streaming big time.

Streaming Platform
Theta.tv

Esports

FTX strikes a 7-year deal with League of Legends LCS.
FTX signs $210M deal with TSM.
Bybit partners with Virtus.pro, NAVI, Astralis and Alliance.
Coinbase partners with Evil Geniuses, BLAST Premiere and ESL.
OG Esports made almost $1M with three NFT drops.
NiP released NFT esports jerseys, gone in two minutes.

What Not To Do
Facebook was invited to a costume party and they dressed as coworkers. The Metaverse is wide open, exciting, full of opportunities and Facebook creates a fucking meeting room. What a boring approach, it actually hurts to see it.

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💣 New Games & Trailers
HALO INFINITE MULTIPLAYER — Cinematic Intro
BLACK MYTH: WUKONG — Trailer
METROID DREAD — Teaser
TALES OF ARISE — Demo & Spotlight
WARIOWARE — Trailer

🎟️ Red Carpet
The biggest trailers and announcements from Gamescom Opening Night Live.

🕶️ Is the Disrespect for me
Dr Disrespect got banned on Twitch last year and nobody knows why. Honestly, if it didn’t get leaked in the gaming community so far, it’s because that shit had to be severe. Everything gets leaked in gaming. He finally talked a little bit about it, takeaways: he claims to know why he got banned and that he will sue Twitch. Ya never know.

🏆 Esports Highlights

Atlanta FaZe wins the CDL Championship. Fire photos here.
LoL Worlds Championship 2021 moves to Europe.
Team oNe wins Rainbow Six Mexico Major.
Team Alliance wins Wild Rift SEA.
Riot announces LCS Game Changers.
The 20 highest earning Valorant pros of all time.
LEC vs LCS Group Stages viewership comparison.

📖 Read of the Week
A guide to platform fees, by The Verge.

🔫 The Story So Far
Everything you need to know about Halo’s story in an interactive experience.

🚫 Explained: Hate Raids
Raids on Twitch used to be the we made it moment. This is why we can’t have nice things:

When somebody ends a stream but redirects the audience to another streamer, that’s giving a raid.
In early August, viewers on Twitch got organized to raid channels to flame the shit out of streamers, just because. Racism and homophobia was the main way for them to switch raids to hate raids.
Streamers can’t solve this by themselves, Twitch is the only one with the power to do it, and this is why.

👾 Gaming is Inevitable
Mr. Ball did it again, great piece to read during the weekend. The essay covers: Why Netflix wants to enter gaming, the challenges Netflix faces when entering gaming, what Netflix seems to be doing, and where this might be going and when.

🎞️ Gaming x Film