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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Crypto Gaming, Play-to-Earn, Metaverse, Blockchain Gaming, GameFi, And NFT Games: What Are The Differences? By DailyCoin - Investing.com

Video games as a form of entertainment have existed for more than half a century already. The first commercially successful arcade machine, Pong, is celebrating 50 years this year.
Compared to this, crypto gaming is a brand-new field. It started in 2021, with a chain of events: the NFT boom, Axie Infinity’s popularity, the rise of blockchain games, Zuckerberg announcing Meta, and the metaverse boom.
As the field is young yet, there is still a lot of confusion. And one area of differentiation comes with understanding the following: Play-to-Earn, blockchain games, GameFi, NFT games, metaverse, Web3, and Web 3.0.
The “Chicken or the Egg” Dilemma: What Are NFT Games?
According to some sources, including Wikipedia, the first widely known crypto game was CryptoKitties. Its main purpose was to collect NFT cats and breed them in order to get more and more unique and rare species. I know, it’s not enough gameplay to be exciting, especially knowing good examples of the collecting...



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