Week That Was
Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days
The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news and discuss unexpected returns, making millions and losing them too…
Accolades
Articles featuring Sky Mavis
Moving To Mobile
Axie Infinity: Origins is available on the Apple App Store right now…in select countries
The NFT/Web3/blockchain hit is set to rise again as Sky Mavis works towards cross-platform feature parity
Plans For Progress
Sky Mavis has "more aggressive" plans for Axie Infinity this year
Following a difficult 2022, during which $625 million was stolen from its Ronin Network
Interview
Aleksander Larson: A 100 percent player-owned, real-money economy is the way forward for the games industry
We spoke to the Sky Mavis co-founder and COO about the future of monetisation in the game space
Player Power
Sky Mavis reveals player-generated games using Axie Infinity IP
Selected games from the Builders Program granted a minimum of $10,000 in AXS
Hacked Off
US sanctions Blender.io and identifies North Korean Lazarus Group for Axie Infinity hack
The US is sanctioning cryptocurrency mixing platform Blender.io and North Korea's Lazarus Group for their role in the theft of $625 million from Axie Infinity
Crypto Curves
Axie Infinity’s utility currency devalued to $0.004
Value has fluctuated since reaching $0.004 on May 12
Reaching For The Sky
Sky Mavis raises $150 million, gears up for launch of Axie Infinity: Origin
Funds will be used to reimburse users that suffered from recent Ronin network hack
Axie Attacked
Axie Infinity dev Sky Mavis has $625 million cryptocurrency stolen from Ronin network
Working with law enforcement to recover the funds
PokÉ To Axie
Philip La on moving from Pokémon GO to Axie Infinity
Player ownership, the strength of the Pokémon IP, and Axie Infinity's economy sustainability
Appointment At Axie
Sky Mavis appoints former Pokémon Go product manager as Axie Infinity game product lead
Phillip La brings over 10 years of product management experience
A Time Of Reflection
PocketGamer.biz’s top five biggest news stories of 2021
Our most-viewed news items
Boom Times
Axie Infinity developer Sky Mavis raises $152 million on a $3 billion valuation
Andreessen Horowitz leads the round
Best Of 2021
The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2021
The movers, the shakers, and all those funky moneymakers
Rocket Ship
Axie Infinity breaks one million DAUs and approaches $1 billion lifetime trading volume
Blockchain game expanding fast
Apex Axie
Axie Infinity hits 350,000 DAUs and over $170 million monthly trading volume
Mobile-first blockchain game is tearing it up