4 April 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:[0:30] The Sandbox's Alpha 5 Season is now live with Jurassic World being the lead brand.[3:27] Ultra has raised $12 million, with more expected later in 2025.[3:57] Jon's been talking to the new CEO Gus van Rijckevorsel about his vision for the company. [7:05] How this funding will be used to generate momentum for the future funding.[9:38] Three tokens have launched this week. All of them are performing badly.[12:22] Immortal Rising 2's IMT token is down 74%. It ran a long airdrop campaign but lack utility.[13:09] At present, the only thing a token will do is drop in price, because of bad market sentiment. [14:15] Anyone who gets a free token, the only sensible thing is to sell it straight away.[15:17] GUN token was higher profile and more anticipated but is down 61%.[16:25] A controversy was GUN went live via Binance Launchpad so wasn't distributed to gamers.[18:30] RavenQuest's QUEST token also went live; down 25%.[19:35] How does this compared to February 2024 when the MAVIA token successfully went live?[24:52] 99.99% of blockchain games will fail because they can't get anyone to value their assets.[25:09] One strategy would be to only let people buy your game token from within the game.[25:44] Forgotten Runiverse will be adopting Pixels' PIXEL as its game token.[29:55] We need to educate gamers to spend tokens on in-game assets, not HODL them.[32:30] Jenny's Game of the Week is ONE Fight Arena.