Sam Barberie is a gaming and Web3 exec based in NY. He was part of the founding team of SuperData Research, which was acquired by Nielsen in 2018; an executive at Animoca Brands; and is the Head of Strategy and Partnerships at Horizon.
It’s hard to say that we’ve reached the tipping point in Web3 gaming: there are still fewer active wallets (and even fewer real human players) than a modest mobile game; no new title has bested the earnings of early play-to-earn (P2E) experiments; and funding is down so dramatically that it looks like a rounding error next to the AI hype train.
And yet I’m more excited than ever. Not gm-frens-wen-moon-excited, but excited in the sense that Web3 gaming is maintaining and even gaining momentum des...
