gm Web3 explorers,

This newsletter is all about gaming, and comes with our latest report, trending games and a list of games to keep your eyes on this month.

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Gaming became the biggest market segment once again

DappRadar Games Report for May 2025, powered by the Blockchain Game Alliance

While there's lots of talk about innovation in DeFi, and of course the rise of SocialFi and InfoFi, gaming has been taking hits. In May 2025 we saw projects closing down after failing to generate enough excitement or to launch a successful game. But, amidst all this negativity there are still chains and dapps thriving. As a matter of fact, gaming is the most dominant product category in the dapp industry.

👉 User activity has been pretty stable over the past month, as May saw a small increase in active wallets, reaching over 4.9 million UAW per day.

🥇 Gaming has become the new market leader, but dominance dropped for a second month in a row, from 21% to the current 19.4%.

🎉 Aptos, Sei Network and Core were the biggest winners of the month, increasing their number of daily active wallets by 22%, 27% and 15% respectively.

This and more in our latest report about the Web3 games industry...

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✨ Gaming highlights of the week

WorldShards
This upcoming sandbox MMO is currently still in development, and it attracted over 413,000 unique wallets since launching on May 28.

My Neighbor Alice
Activity for the colorful online world of My Neighbor Alice has shot up, reaching over 70,000 active wallets in the past week. That's +4,538%.

MatchQuest
Play-to-earn mini-game platform MatchQuest has seen 200% increased activity. The dapp is built on Matchain, and runs on Telegram.

MapleStory U
The classic MMORPG reimagined for Web3, is stealing the hearts of gamers in Asia. MapleStory attracted 130% more wallets in the past week, reaching 96,390 active wallets.

Idle Glory
With 170,000 active wallets, Idle Glory is one of the leading games on Sei Network. The idle action RPG grew its audience by 2496% in the past 7 days.

Top 10 Best Play-to-Earn Web3 Games: June 2025

FIFA Rivals, EVE Frontier, and Gods Unchained are just a selection of the games we listed as the ones to watch this June.

Discover the 10 games for this month

An update about the XAI Games ecosystem

In this XAI Games Chain Update we take a look at recent ecosystem developments surrounding XAI, the L3 network for gaming built on top of Arbitrum Orbit. Right now, trading card game The Lost Glitches is the leading game on XAI, but various upcoming releases could give the card game and run for its money.