Author: NFT Video Games Editorial Team

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: thirty-six tracked games, with seven confirmed living — twelve shut down, one sunset, one paused, nine gone quiet, four pivoted away,…

Does the kind of game track with whether an NFT game is still alive? Across the registry’s 363 records, the descriptive answer is yes: the living share by primary genre ranges more than two-to-one in this snapshot — MMO has the highest living share among the substantial genres (21 of 37, 57%), followed by shooter…

“Is this game dead?” usually has a wrong assumption inside it — that dead and alive are the only two states. In the NFTVideoGames registry, 67 of 276 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…

When a blockchain game ends, the token in your wallet usually still exists — the question is whether it still does anything. Our lifecycle article asks what happened to the game; this one asks what happened to the player’s assets. Using the ninety documented endings in our verified registry, the honest answer is: it depends…

“Dead NFT game” is a label that hides more than it explains. In the NFTVideoGames registry — a curated, evidence-dated set of 442 tracked games — one-hundred-and-ninety records sit in a non-living state, and they got there by forty distinct mechanisms. This piece explains what our lifecycle states actually mean, what the evidence behind them…

DeFi Kingdoms is one of the longest-lived blockchain games — an RPG/economy hybrid that’s survived its own chain migration once and is mid-way through a second. The important part for starting now: the game’s dedicated chain just sunsetting is infrastructure news, not a shutdown. Here’s the current path in. The one thing to know first…