Consensus Magazine

Why Blockbuster Games Will Soon Be Built on Modular Appchains

The AAA gaming space is absolutely massive (“AAA” refers to the biggest games produced by the biggest developers). To put it into context, it is bigger than the movie and music industry combined �...

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How Digital Collectibles Are Shaping Athlete Legacies

Since the dawn of sport, athletes have built their legacy out on the playing field. We look up to their accomplishments; we hold on to their records, their milestones, and the countless moments that m...

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From Coin-Operated Machines to Token-Operated Gaming

In 2021, streaming giant Twitch suffered a massive data leak when an anonymous hacker got access to the company’s server and private data, including the platform's source code and payout reports for...

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Why We’re (Still) Investing in Web3 Gaming

With game tokens down 37% overall in 2024, there’s been some trash talk saying Web3 gaming is dead. But crypto is cyclical, and the current downturn is nothing we haven’t seen before. As angel inv...

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Move Over Hollywood: Why Gaming Is the New King of Entertainment

The global entertainment and media industry is expected to hit a market size of approximately $2.9 trillion by 2027, and it’s gaming, not Hollywood, that’s driving this surge. With an expected rev...

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Play-to-Earn Is Dead. Why Tap-to-Earn Marks a Big Shift

Play-to-earn (P2E) games quickly came on the scene, but they failed. Why? P2E games tried to bring gamers into crypto, which we’ve all learned is not the key to trust nor mass adoption.

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Catizen’s Tim Wong: ‘We Are Here to Build a Business Ecosystem’

Mobile gaming is big in China. It has been for years. Much of the country plays so-called “mini-games” on their phones, often via WeChat messenger. The games are simple and fun and addictive. “I...

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How Memes and Gamification Are Changing Finance As We Know It

Make money with your friends while laughing at an inside joke? What could be better than that?

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What Hamster Kombat Did: How Telegram Built a Web3 Gaming Juggernaut

Two months ago the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, was killed in a helicopter crash. Iran held an election to replace him, but there was a hitch: According to a senior official in Iran’s military,...

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Before Meme Stocks, WallStreetBets Traders Mainlined Options

The crypto boom in the final months of 2017 woke up millions of people to the idea that you could get rich from your phone. In December alone, three million people downloaded the app for Coinbase, the...

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