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Gamified is a panel show (Twitter Space) where experts discuss interesting and topical Web3 Gaming subjects in a lighthearted gameshow format with a unique blend of humor and industry knowledge.
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- 6 days ago1h 39m
Unity 7 is all AI | Gamescom's first sell out | Gamified 169
Unity is building its next-gen engine around AI agents.MindsEye's Meltdown - A GTA legend's comeback studio flops, lays off 400+, blames corporate sabotage, and throws an all-expenses fan party the same day workers protest outsidePalworld borrowed Pokemon's whole playbook, got sued by Nintendo, and made ~$700M anywayGamescom Sells Out for the First Time Ever - is this genuinely bullish for the gaming industy?Watch instead of listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NvO5QsZuZICHAPTERS:2:53 - Mindseye Playtest & Layoffs | What’s the Word?32:50 - Palworld Stealing Mechanics | Buy or Sell?59:42 - Gamescom Sells Out | Bullish or Bullshit?1:20:05 - Unity Bets on Coding Agents | Devil’s AdvocateHOST: Sam Steffanina - https://www.linkedin.com/in/samsteffanina/PANEL:Chris Heatherly — Ex-Disney / Ex-NBCUniversal - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisheatherly/ Joe Ferencz — Gamefam Founder - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeferencz/Oliver Maroney (OpenSea) - https://x.com/OliverMaroneyGnoc (Digital Collectors Club) - https://x.com/itsGnocPayton Kaleiwahea (Wolves Co / Kizuna) - https://x.com/paytkaleiwaheaTony Valcarcel (Makko.ai) - https://x.com/Tvalc
- 1 weeks ago1h 27m
Games Industry CRASHING? | Sony Returns to Physical If...? | Gamified 168
EA put paid progression into College Football 27's single-player modes, then pulls it days later in launch week?What Would It Actually Take for Sony to Walk Back the Disc Shutdown?84% of Game Attention Goes to Games Older Than Two Years - is this a crisis for new games?Tim Sweeney Says Steam's Fees Are Leaving Billions on the TableIs the games industry crashing? What does it look like in 2030?Watch instead of listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx4bzyLOH2oCHAPTERS:2:40 - College Football P2W - What’s the Word?20:00 - Sony Returns to Physical if… | Finish the Sentence33:00 - 84% Attention on Older Games | Advise Me47:54 - Steam Fees Cost them Billions | Board Room1:09:10 - Games Industry Crashing? Bullish or BullshitHost: Sam Steffanina - https://www.linkedin.com/in/samsteffanina/PANEL:Chris Heatherly — Ex-Disney / Ex-NBCUniversal - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisheatherly/ Kohji Nagata (Parallel) - https://x.com/ParallelTCGpodRobin Boyar - thinktank / Ex-EA - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-boyar/Gnoc (Digital Collectors Club) - https://x.com/itsGnocPayton Kaleiwahea (Wolves Co / Kizuna) - https://x.com/paytkaleiwahea
- 2 weeks ago1h 29m
MASSIVE Job cuts from Xbox | Ads come to Console & PC | Gamified 167
Is Asha Sharma's reset actually making Xbox a healthy business?What the **** was Phil Spencer doing, and how did he survive 38 years at Microsoft to walk out with Xbox losing 64 cents on every dollar?On a scale of 0 to 10, how do you feel about ads becoming standard on console and PC?Funds moving from equity to project financing: bullish or bullshit? Is this the death of gaming VC, or a necessary evolution?CHAPTERS:2:22 - Xbox Cuts Jobs & Studios | Buy or Sell21:30 - Xbox loses 64c on Every Dollar | Autopsy48:56 - Ads on Console | Buy or Sell1:09:46 - Equity vs Project Financing | Bullish or BullshitWatch instead of listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYlGzPx45RwHost: Sam Steffanina - https://www.linkedin.com/in/samsteffanina/PANEL:Chris Heatherly — Ex-Disney / Ex-NBCUniversal - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisheatherly/Kohji Nagata (Parallel) - https://x.com/ParallelTCGpodWills Spangler — GameCred - https://www.linkedin.com/in/wills-spangler/Tony Valcarcel (Makko.ai) - https://x.com/TvalcColan Neese — Screen Engine / mindGAME Data - https://www.linkedin.com/in/colanneese/ Matthew Buxton - Warp Chain (ex-Rovio, Jagex) - https://x.com/BuxtonMatthew
- 3 weeks ago1h 28m
PlayStation Cuts Discs | GTA 6's Full Social Network | Gamified 166
PlayStation ends disc production in favor of digital-only in January 2028. GTA 6 is rumored to ship with a TikTok-style social network built into the game. The Steam AI disclosure study showing AI-labeled games get 53% fewer reviews, the ESA report claiming the average gamer is a 37-year-old white man, and Mecha Chameleon, the $6 hide-and-seek game outselling Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam. The Gamified panel breaks down what the end of physical discs means for game ownership, prices, and preservation, whether Rockstar can launch the biggest day-one social platform ever inside Grand Theft Auto 6.Watch instead of listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mQlHgtiNSgCHAPTERS:3:14 - AI Stigma | Pick A Side: Consumer or Creator18:41 - Discs Are Dead | Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal41:44 - Avg Gamer = 37 White Male | What’s the Word?51:14 - GTA VI Social Network | Bullish or Bullshit1:06:27 - Meccha Chameleon | Over/Under 25M SalesIs the market right to torch AI games, or is this punishing the people doing it well?Physical game discs die January 2028. Big deal, little deal, or no deal - for ownership, the used-game market, preservation, and the players who still care?What's the word on the average gamer being 37, not 17 - does the industry's picture of its own audience need to change, and does it actually change what you build or how you sell it?GTA 6 is building a full social network inside the game, and it is more than set dressing - it changes how you find content. Is the in-game social feed a real shift that spreads to Roblox, Fortnite, and the rest, or a gimmick that fades after the novelty?Meccha Chameleon - Over or under 20 million copies before year end - and is this a model studios can actually copy, or lightning in a bottle?Host: Sam Steffanina - / samsteffanina PANEL:Chris Heatherly — Ex-Disney / Ex-NBCUniversal / / chrisheatherly Wills Spangler — GameCred / / wills-spangler Robin Boyar - thinktank / Ex-EA / / robin-boyar Joe Ferencz — Gamefam Founder / / joeferencz Gnoc (Digital Collectors Club) - https://x.com/itsGnocdub (Battletrade) - https://x.com/uhhdub
- Jun 25, 20261h 38m
REDEMPTION for God of War: Laufey? | GTA is $80 | UE6 Destroys Blueprints | Gamified 165
CHAPTERS:2:30 - GoW: Laufey Revisited | Sentiment Score20:41 - Over/Under $2B GTA VI Sales After 72hrs43:56 - Summer Games Fest 95% Sequels | Red / Green Flag57:50 - Console vs Cloud | Bullish or Bullsh1t1:10:47 - Unreal Blueprints Deprecation | Buy or Sell1:20:49 - Immutable = AppLovin Games | What are the OddsWatch instead of listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERGSPAD9XYwTwo weeks ago this room mostly buried Laufey through Bullish or Bullshit. Is the no-Kratos pivot looking like a win, or is the mindshare just negative sentiment piling up?What does GTA 6's release actually mean for the games industry? Is it just one company making money, or will this rising tide actually lift all boats and create another industry boom off the back of it’s success?24 of 25 were Sequels at Summer Games Fest. Red flag or green flag on the industry's reliance on familiar IP: a real problem the industry has to fix, or just how discovery works now? Every console maker is moving on price at the same time, and the one thing that sidesteps a $1,000 box is streaming. Is Cloud gaming bullish or bullsh1t as a result of this hardware spike?Is phasing out Blueprints a self-inflicted wound that guts the accessibility that made Unreal dominant, or a necessary modernization for a unified future?What are the odds Immutable's pivot actually works, that a collapsed Web3 company becomes a real competitor to AppLovin?Host: Sam Steffanina - / samsteffanina PANEL:Payton Kaleiwahea (Wolves Co / Kizuna) - https://x.com/paytkaleiwaheaKohji Nagata (Parallel) - https://x.com/ParallelTCGpoddub (Battletrade) - https://x.com/uhhdubChris Heatherly — Ex-Disney / Ex-NBCUniversal / / chrisheatherly Wills Spangler — GameCred / / wills-spangler Tony (Makko.ai) - https://x.com/Tvalc
- Jun 22, 20261h 35m
Xbox Just Restarted the Console War | Gamified 164
Sharma took over from Spencer last month and is already torching every major decision Xbox made. Employees are surprised. Retailers are confused. Layoffs incoming. Future Halo on PlayStation? Nobody knows.Single-player cinematic games are the new prestige format. The shift already happened — prestige migrated from multiplayer/live-service to authored, story-driven experiences, just like it migrated from film to TV. Live-service is becoming the direct-to-video of gaming: cheap, formulaic, and increasingly abandoned. Change my mind.Sealed Super Mario Bros. just sold for $3 million. A Superman comic fetched $6 million. But whose nostalgia is actually winning? Is there a ceiling? Is it 10 / 20 / 30 years out? Does Gen Z compress the model so hard they break it entirely? Whose nostalgia wins?Change my mind: YouTubers make great movies because filmmaking is adjacent to what they already do. Gamers can't make great games because game development is nothing like playing them. The skill transfer is one-directional. Is this right, or does it oversell how easy filmmaking is and undersell game development? CHAPTERS:3:22 - Asha's Xbox Exclusive Program18:19 - Live Service Games are Dead - Change My Mind45:46 - $3M Sale for Mario Bros in 5 Years?1:06:04 - YouTubers Are Better Than Hollywood?Watch instead of listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMu4oqkffDsHost: Payton Kaleiwahea - https://x.com/paytkaleiwahea(Sam is on his honeymoon)PANEL:Oliver Maroney (OpenSea) - https://x.com/OliverMaroneyKohji Nagata (Parallel) - https://x.com/ParallelTCGpodGnoc (Digital Collectors Club) - https://x.com/itsGnocChris Heatherly — Ex-Disney / Ex-NBCUniversal / / chrisheatherly Wills Spangler — GameCred / / wills-spangler Tony (Makko.ai) - https://x.com/Tvalc
- Jun 4, 20261h 37m
God of War: NO Kratos | Steam Wishlists are BS | Roblox AI | What Killed Destiny? | Gamified 162
Have Steam wishlists become a vanity metric that no longer measures what people think it measures?The market just split on AI, and gaming is the clearest example. Nintendo has no AI features and no AI roadmap - and investors rewarded them for it. Roblox is doing the exact opposite: going all-in, building its own generative foundation models and baking agentic tools into the core of how games get made.The new God of War: Laufey makes you play as Kratos' wife. Is this bullish or bullsh!t?After a ~12-year run, Bungie is ending active development on Destiny 2 with one final content update. There is no Destiny 3. The studio's future is Marathon.Watch instead of listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-m6e8ZHu_YCHAPTERS:0:00 - Intro2:42 - Steam Wishlists = Bullshit | Change My Mind22:41 - Roblox All-In On AI | Sentiment Score47:57 - God-dess of War? | Bullish or Bullshit?1:10:28 - What Killed Destiny? | AutopsyPANEL:Michael Christine (Andrometa) - https://x.com/MichaelSatoshiJerry Singer (ex- Upptic) - https://x.com/JerrySingerJoe Ferencz — Gamefam Founder / / joeferencz Chris Heatherly — Ex-Disney / Ex-NBCUniversal / / chrisheatherly Wills Spangler — GameCred / / wills-spangler Colan Neese — Screen Engine / mindGAME Data linkedin.com/in/colanneeseHost: Sam Steffanina - https://x.com/SamSteffanina
- May 28, 20261h 37m
Forza Leaked and Broke Every Record | Sony Kills PC Ports | $38B Saudi Gaming Bet | Gamified #161
THIS WEEK ON GAMIFIED: Forza Horizon 6 leaked before launch - then broke every franchise record. 172K concurrent on early access alone. 302K by end of week. Nearly 4x FH5's all-time peak.Sony held a staff town hall: single-player first-party games are PS5 exclusive going forward. No more Steam ports. A direct reversal of a six-year trend.Nintendo stock jumped 6.8% in three days. The reason? Investors rotating out of AI stocks into companies that aren't burning money on it.Saudi Arabia deployed $38 billion into gaming through Savvy Gaming Group. The acquisition phase is done. Now what?Amazon cancelled its Lord of the Rings MMO for the second time. Six days later, Warhorse Studios announced an open-world Middle-earth RPG.Xbox hired Matthew Ball as Chief Strategy Officer. The most analytics-driven hire the console space has ever made. But can strategy decks fix Xbox?Also... sorry for no episode last week - I got married!CHAPTERS:0:00 - Intro2:42 - Forza Horizon 6: Did the Leak Actually Help? | Buy or Sell16:26 - Saudi Arabia Spent $38B on Gaming | Sentiment Score34:08 - LOTR Goes to Warhorse | What's the Word49:53 - Can Matthew Ball Save Xbox? | What Are the Odds1:04:27 - Sony Goes Full PS5 Exclusive, Kills PC Ports | Buy or SellWatch instead of listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VswZ5WNNJKoPANEL:Kate Irwin (Veda) - https://x.com/kateirwinPayton Kaleiwahea (Wolves Co / Kizuna) - https://x.com/paytkaleiwaheaMichael Christine (Andrometa) - https://x.com/MichaelSatoshiKohji Nagata (Parallel) - https://x.com/ParallelTCGpodGnoc (Digital Collectors Club) - https://x.com/itsGnocOmar Ghanem (Games.gg) https://x.com/yoitsOGHost: Sam Steffanina - https://x.com/SamSteffanina
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