BNB Chain gets less press than Solana or Ronin, but its registry cluster tells a two-sided story: a handful of casual, mobile-first games still quietly running — and a silent tail that has grown to fourteen records we can’t call either way. Six of twenty-four have a documented ending, still the lowest confirmed share of…
In 2021, BNB Chain — then Binance Smart Chain — was the densest GameFi habitat ever assembled: low fees, fast blocks, and a retail audience primed by play-to-earn made it the default launchpad for a generation of NFT games. The NFTVideoGames registry now tracks 24 verified BNB records, and the chain’s 2021 cohort is the…
Did the chain decide whether an NFT game lived? Across the registry’s 165 records, the honest answer is: the chain didn’t kill them, but it didn’t save them either — survival tracks who a chain hosted, not the chain itself. Measured by verified status, the spread is real: Polygon carries the deadliest cohort (7 of…
Does the kind of game track with whether an NFT game is still alive? Across the registry’s 165 records, the descriptive answer is yes: the living share by primary genre ranges more than three-to-one in this snapshot — MMO has the highest living share (15 of 19 records, 79%) and sports the second-highest (7 of…
“Dead NFT game” is a label that hides more than it explains. In the NFTVideoGames registry — a curated, evidence-dated set of 165 tracked games — forty-five records sit in a non-living state, and they got there by thirty-five distinct mechanisms. This piece explains what our lifecycle states actually mean, what the evidence behind them…
“Paused” is the politest status a blockchain game can claim — servers off or development frozen, roadmap shelved, but an explicit promise that this is not the end. The NFTVideoGames registry carries ten paused records, and the measured pattern is uncomfortable: the only same-operator return in the set — Axie Classic‘s 2024 revival — is…
“Is this game dead?” usually has a wrong assumption inside it — that dead and alive are the only two states. In the NFTVideoGames registry, 49 of 165 tracked games sit in unknown: neither confirmed running nor confirmed ended. This piece explains what that status actually means, what the middle looks like in practice, and…
Polygon was blockchain gaming’s home chain in the 2021–22 wave — cheap gas, EVM compatibility, the default answer to “where do game assets live.” Its registry cluster tells the other half of that story: eleven tracked games, and not one confirmed living — five shut down, one sunset, one paused, four gone quiet. This is…
Blockchain gaming is eleven years old — older than most people assume, and stranger than the “Axie, then everything died” version. The NFTVideoGames registry now holds dated, evidence-backed records for 165 games whose playable dates span 2017 to this month — asset-tokenization history reaching back to 2015: the games that invented the genre’s mechanics, the…
In 2024, Telegram became the largest game-distribution event blockchain gaming has ever produced: tap-to-earn mini-apps that needed no download, no wallet and no crypto knowledge pulled in claimed audiences of 35, 47, 63 and 300 million players. The NFTVideoGames registry tracks four verified TON records from that wave. Eighteen months on, the measured answer is…