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Gamified

Gamified

By: Samuel j Steffanina
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Gamified is a panel show (Twitter Space) where experts discuss interesting and topical Web3 Gaming subjects in a lighthearted gameshow format with a unique blend of humor and industry knowledge.Samuel j Steffanina Science Fiction
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  • REDEMPTION for God of War: Laufey? | GTA is $80 | UE6 Destroys Blueprints | Gamified 165

    REDEMPTION for God of War: Laufey? | GTA is $80 | UE6 Destroys Blueprints | Gamified 165
    Jun 25 2026
    CHAPTERS:2:30 - GoW: Laufey Revisited | Sentiment Score20:41 - Over/Under $2B GTA VI Sales After 72hrs43:56 - Summer Games Fest 95% Sequels | Red / Green Flag57:50 - Console vs Cloud | Bullish or Bullsh1t1:10:47 - Unreal Blueprints Deprecation | Buy or Sell1:20:49 - Immutable = AppLovin Games | What are the OddsWatch instead of listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERGSPAD9XYwTwo weeks ago this room mostly buried Laufey through Bullish or Bullshit. Is the no-Kratos pivot looking like a win, or is the mindshare just negative sentiment piling up?What does GTA 6's release actually mean for the games industry? Is it just one company making money, or will this rising tide actually lift all boats and create another industry boom off the back of it’s success?24 of 25 were Sequels at Summer Games Fest. Red flag or green flag on the industry's reliance on familiar IP: a real problem the industry has to fix, or just how discovery works now? Every console maker is moving on price at the same time, and the one thing that sidesteps a $1,000 box is streaming. Is Cloud gaming bullish or bullsh1t as a result of this hardware spike?Is phasing out Blueprints a self-inflicted wound that guts the accessibility that made Unreal dominant, or a necessary modernization for a unified future?What are the odds Immutable's pivot actually works, that a collapsed Web3 company becomes a real competitor to AppLovin?Host: Sam Steffanina - / samsteffanina PANEL:Payton Kaleiwahea (Wolves Co / Kizuna) - https://x.com/paytkaleiwaheaKohji Nagata (Parallel) - https://x.com/ParallelTCGpoddub (Battletrade) - https://x.com/uhhdubChris Heatherly — Ex-Disney / Ex-NBCUniversal / / chrisheatherly Wills Spangler — GameCred / / wills-spangler Tony (Makko.ai) - https://x.com/Tvalc
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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • Xbox Just Restarted the Console War | Gamified 164

    Xbox Just Restarted the Console War | Gamified 164
    Jun 22 2026

    Sharma took over from Spencer last month and is already torching every major decision Xbox made. Employees are surprised. Retailers are confused. Layoffs incoming. Future Halo on PlayStation? Nobody knows.


    Single-player cinematic games are the new prestige format. The shift already happened — prestige migrated from multiplayer/live-service to authored, story-driven experiences, just like it migrated from film to TV. Live-service is becoming the direct-to-video of gaming: cheap, formulaic, and increasingly abandoned. Change my mind.


    Sealed Super Mario Bros. just sold for $3 million. A Superman comic fetched $6 million. But whose nostalgia is actually winning? Is there a ceiling? Is it 10 / 20 / 30 years out? Does Gen Z compress the model so hard they break it entirely? Whose nostalgia wins?


    Change my mind: YouTubers make great movies because filmmaking is adjacent to what they already do. Gamers can't make great games because game development is nothing like playing them. The skill transfer is one-directional. Is this right, or does it oversell how easy filmmaking is and undersell game development?



    CHAPTERS:

    3:22 - Asha's Xbox Exclusive Program

    18:19 - Live Service Games are Dead - Change My Mind

    45:46 - $3M Sale for Mario Bros in 5 Years?

    1:06:04 - YouTubers Are Better Than Hollywood?


    Watch instead of listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMu4oqkffDs


    Host: Payton Kaleiwahea - https://x.com/paytkaleiwahea

    (Sam is on his honeymoon)


    PANEL:

    Oliver Maroney (OpenSea) - https://x.com/OliverMaroney

    Kohji Nagata (Parallel) - https://x.com/ParallelTCGpod

    Gnoc (Digital Collectors Club) - https://x.com/itsGnoc

    Chris Heatherly — Ex-Disney / Ex-NBCUniversal / / chrisheatherly

    Wills Spangler — GameCred / / wills-spangler

    Tony (Makko.ai) - https://x.com/Tvalc
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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • God of War: NO Kratos | Steam Wishlists are BS | Roblox AI | What Killed Destiny? | Gamified 162

    God of War: NO Kratos | Steam Wishlists are BS | Roblox AI | What Killed Destiny? | Gamified 162
    Jun 4 2026

    Have Steam wishlists become a vanity metric that no longer measures what people think it measures?


    The market just split on AI, and gaming is the clearest example. Nintendo has no AI features and no AI roadmap - and investors rewarded them for it. Roblox is doing the exact opposite: going all-in, building its own generative foundation models and baking agentic tools into the core of how games get made.


    The new God of War: Laufey makes you play as Kratos' wife. Is this bullish or bullsh!t?


    After a ~12-year run, Bungie is ending active development on Destiny 2 with one final content update. There is no Destiny 3. The studio's future is Marathon.


    Watch instead of listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-m6e8ZHu_Y


    CHAPTERS:

    0:00 - Intro

    2:42 - Steam Wishlists = Bullshit | Change My Mind

    22:41 - Roblox All-In On AI | Sentiment Score

    47:57 - God-dess of War? | Bullish or Bullshit?

    1:10:28 - What Killed Destiny? | Autopsy


    PANEL:

    Michael Christine (Andrometa) - https://x.com/MichaelSatoshi

    Jerry Singer (ex- Upptic) - https://x.com/JerrySinger

    Joe Ferencz — Gamefam Founder / / joeferencz

    Chris Heatherly — Ex-Disney / Ex-NBCUniversal / / chrisheatherly

    Wills Spangler — GameCred / / wills-spangler

    Colan Neese — Screen Engine / mindGAME Data linkedin.com/in/colanneese


    Host: Sam Steffanina - https://x.com/SamSteffanina
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    1 hr and 38 mins
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