In brief
- Yield Guild Games is sunsetting its crypto game publishing arm, retiring its website, launchpad, and games like LOL Land and Waifu Sweeper by Aug. 1.
- The firm said the crypto market downturn left the business commercially unsustainable, with 35 jobs to be cut.
- YGG is pivoting to the AI data economy, aiming to supply gaming-derived behavioral datasets for AI training.
Yield Guild Games, a blockchain-based gaming organization, announced Monday that it is shutting down YGG Play, its publishing arm for crypto-infused casual games, citing the crypto market downturn alongside broader video game industry struggles.
The unit’s closure marks a retreat from a strategy the Web3 company had championed as recently as this year: building…
