Web3 gaming is perfect for mobile, but challenges remain

In a Web3 gaming panel hosted by Polygon Studios, Forte President Andy Yang connected with a number of other leaders in the Web3 gaming community to discuss the future of the industry. One key theme was mobile gaming, particularly the need for Web3 game studios to address such a critical segment of the market and some of […]

Reporting roundup: Gaming media takes on GDC 2023

This year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) provided an expansive view of the challenges, opportunities, and innovations that will shape the future of the game industry. As always, the event was a peek behind the curtains to see what studios and developers are really focused on—and what they’re most concerned about. Forte was on the ground […]

Game asset ownership – Part 1: Evolution of ownership

As video games have become more popular and more interwoven into our life, the systems by which they’ve been distributed have evolved — and with that evolution, their basic business model. In particular, the move from distribution of games via physical media — e.g., cartridges, chips and disks — to distribution on digital channels has […]

Game asset ownership – Part 2: The path to true ownership

Whereas traditional games effectively license digital assets to players, a blockchain game economy allows for the true ownership of a digital good, since that digital good is an asset whose link to its owner is written onto an immutable blockchain. When players — and the developer — have true ownership of assets, what that ownership confers is property rights. […]

Game asset ownership – Part 3: Better economic models

The standard unidirectional sale of goods from developers to players is, in essence, a misaligned command economy, which has been shown across economic history to be very difficult to properly manage; keeping up with demand, and supplying the right goods to meet changing needs, is challenging without the robust signals that marketplaces can provide. By […]