After giving players several weeks to cast their votes across a variety of categories, The Gam3r’s Choice Awards have announced their winners. With an in-person awards show in Miami, physical trophies, and a livestream of the event, Web Gam3r upped the ante in regards to web3 gaming awards!

Big Time was the big winner at these awards, taking no less than three categories, including Game of the Year!

Gam3r’s Awards Winners List

Here is the full list of winners.

• Best Game Trailer – Shrapnel
• Best Action / Adventure – Big Time
• Best Casual Game – Blankos Block Party
• Best eSports Game – ev.io
• Best Mobile Game – Guild of Guardians
• Best RPG Game – Big Time
• Best Game Lore – Illuvium
• Best Strategy Game – Gods Unchained
• Best Sports Game – SoRare
• Best FPS Game – ev.io
• Creator of the Year 2022 – Brycent
• Most Engaged Community – Star Atlas
• Gaming Blockchain of the Year – Polygon
• Metaverse of the Year – The Sandbox
• Organization of the Year – Animoca Brands
• Studio of the Year – Gala Games
• Most Anticipated Game – Shrapnel
• Game of the Year – Big Time

Many of these winners are not especially surprising. Animoca Brands seems to have their hand in half of web3 gaming currently in development, and Gala Games has done nothing buy stay in the news recently with their acquisitions, releases, and other updates.

And with The Sandbox migrating to the Polygon chain, as well as well-known NFTs projects DeGods and y00ts, Polygon seems to be here to stay. Even with competition from Immutable X and other layer 2 or sidechain solutions.

But some of these winners are more obviously just game communities bombarding the system with votes, whether deserved or not. With a number of mobile, web3 games that you can actually play, Guild of Guardians, which has only shown us a couple of very limited (both in time and scope) alphas, doesn’t deserve this particular award, in my opinion Now don’t get me wrong! I’m looking forward to playing some GoG, and own several Founder NFTs myself. And I’m sure that they will earn many awards in the future. But with their current status, I wouldn’t have put them up for this particular award to begin with.

The Future of Gaming

It’s interesting that we still don’t have anything in the way of action-based sports game in web3 yet. All we have are the hybrid fantasy football / collectible card games such as SoRare. This seems like an opportunity for some bold developer. I expect that we’ll see someone coming to fill that void within the next year.

But these awards do show us the direction web3 gaming is heading. For the most part, we see active, high-quality games on the winner’s list. Browser based games are going to need to offer something special to compete with the detail and graphics offered by the more traditional game downloads.!

And the actual awards ceremony seemed to be enjoyed by the participants. I can see these awards becoming a bigger and bigger event as the web3 ecosystem grows and develops.

I’m looking forward to 2023, the year of blockchain gaming!

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Among the 15 new clubs are the surprising runner-up of the current standings, Hatayspor. Other clubs like Alanyaspor, Antalyaspor and Adana Demirspor also joined. Check out the marketplace and scout for new player cards to use in the fantasy football game.

Earlier this month the first Danish team joined the game. Details about this are still lacking a bit, but Sorare also recently announced a new collectible NFT. They named it Sorare Moments, and these cards feature memorable moments. These collectibles will launch with Sorare Bundesliga Moments in 2022, and they will share more details about their utility ahead of the release next year.

How to play Sorare

You can play Sorare for free, but that takes away lots of the excitement to be fair. You need to purchase collectible player cards, and the players on these cards will become your team. Each game week you select the players, each represented by an NFT card, of which you think they will perform best.

For every game week managers will need to select a team from the player card collection. They will need one goalkeeper, one defender, one midfielder, one attacker and an extra field player. Players earn points based on the real-life performance of those players. Therefore players that play regularly, are active in winning team, hardly make mistakes, and score a lot of goals, are generally valuable. Each card can only be used once during a game week, but if you have enough cards you can join in multiple leagues.

If you make enough points, you will earn 0.01 or 0.02 ETH. Are you among the best? Then you will receive a free card, which are much more valuable. Learn more on how to play and earn in Sorare here, or sign up for the game here.

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Users active in Sorare, collecting player cards and using them in the bi-weekly matches, can now buy cards from both Aalborg and Strasbourg on the marketplace. New players are being auctioned all the time, and only the highest bidder wins the card. On the secondary market traders can find cards for sale by others.

With Aalborg joining Sorare, it will only be a matter of time before other Danish clubs join the game. FC Kopenhagen, Brondby, FC Midtjylland and Randers FC come to mind. Sorare has the ambition to sign all clubs for the biggest competitions from across the globe. Recently they added the German Bundesliga to their line-up,

Coming next year: Sorare Moments

Details about this are still lacking a bit, but Sorare also announced a new collectible NFT. They named it Sorare Moments, and these cards feature memorable moments. These collectibles will launch with Sorare Bundesliga Moments in 2022, and they will share more details about their utility ahead of the release next year.

How to play Sorare

You can play Sorare for free, but that takes away lots of the excitement to be fair. You need to purchase collectible player cards, and the players on these cards will become your team. Each game week you select the players, each represented by an NFT card, of which you think they will perform best.

For every game week managers will need to select a team from the player card collection. They will need one goalkeeper, one defender, one midfielder, one attacker and an extra field player. Players earn points based on the real-life performance of those players. Therefore players that play regularly, are active in winning team, hardly make mistakes, and score a lot of goals, are generally valuable. Each card can only be used once during a game week, but if you have enough cards you can join in multiple leagues.

If you make enough points, you will earn 0.01 or 0.02 ETH. Are you among the best? Then you will receive a free card, which are much more valuable. Learn more on how to play and earn in Sorare here, or sign up for the game here.

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Sorare will only sell clubs from the first Bundesliga, but in addition announced support for the second Bundesliga. As a result players from Schalke 04, which relegated last year, can now join in the fantasy football game once more.

For those who are not familiar with Sorare, it’s a NFT-powered fantasy football game. You buy cards based on your favorite players. Then you make a team using a keeper, defender, midfielder, attacker and one extra field player. Twice per week there’s a game round. Your selected players will earn points based on their actual performance on the pitch. Score enough points, and you will win money or new cards.

Coming next year: Sorare Moments

Details about this are still lacking a bit, but Sorare also announced a new collectible NFT. They named it Sorare Moments, and these cards feature memorable moments. These collectibles will launch with Sorare Bundesliga Moments in 2022, and they will share more details about their utility ahead of the release next year.

If you’re interested in catching a glimpse of an early version of these Sorare Moments, check the video in the tweet below and scroll to 00:40.

How to play Sorare

You can play Sorare for free, but that takes away lots of the excitement to be fair. You need to purchase collectible player cards, and the players on these cards will become your team. Each game week you select the players, each represented by an NFT card, of which you think they will perform best.

For every game week managers will need to select a team from the player card collection. They will need one goalkeeper, one defender, one midfielder, one attacker and an extra field player. Players earn points based on the real-life performance of those players. Therefore players that play regularly, are active in winning team, hardly make mistakes, and score a lot of goals, are generally valuable. Each card can only be used once during a game week, but if you have enough cards you can join in multiple leagues.

If you make enough points, you will earn 0.01 or 0.02 ETH. Are you among the best? Then you will receive a free card, which are much more valuable. Learn more on how to play and earn in Sorare here, or sign up for the game here.

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Despite the announcement, the NFTs from the Bundesliga aren’t available yet. Sorare expects to launch these by the end of October. Clubs like Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig, Wolfsburg and Union Berlin will now become part of the fantasy football game. This means that fan favorites like Erling Haaland, Leroy Sané and Wout Weghorst will now enter the game.

Despite the agreement, Sorare will not release cards based on the second Bundesliga. However, cards of players now active in the lower league will now be tracked as well.

Introducing Sorare Moments

Details about this are still lacking a bit, but Sorare also announced a new collectible NFT. They named it Sorare Moments, and these cards feature memorable moments. These collectibles will launch with Sorare Bundesliga Moments in 2022, and they will share more details about their utility ahead of the release next year.

If you’re interested in catching a glimpse of an early version of these Sorare Moments, check the video in the tweet below and scroll to 00:40.

How to play Sorare

You can play Sorare for free, but that takes away lots of the excitement to be fair. You need to purchase collectible player cards, and the players on these cards will become your team. Each game week you select the players, each represented by an NFT card, of which you think they will perform best.

For every game week managers will need to select a team from the player card collection. They will need one goalkeeper, one defender, one midfielder, one attacker and an extra field player. Players earn points based on the real-life performance of those players. Therefore players that play regularly, are active in winning team, hardly make mistakes, and score a lot of goals, are generally valuable. Each card can only be used once during a game week, but if you have enough cards you can join in multiple leagues.

If you make enough points, you will earn 0.01 or 0.02 ETH. Are you among the best? Then you will receive a free card, which are much more valuable. Learn more on how to play and earn in Sorare here, or sign up for the game here.

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A Legend card takes the place of the highest scoring player of their club in their position. So Ronaldo Nazario de Lima’s PSV card will earn the highest scoring card out of all of PSV’s attacking players. Yes, this means that a Legend card basically gives you multiple options in a clubs line-up: defense, midfield and attack.

Sorare will introduce Legends Special Weekly tournaments once per month, allowing users to use their cards in special tournaments with special prizes. However, these special cards can’t be used in the regular Global All-Star or regional tournaments.

Every week day Sorare will drop a new legend card on the market, starting on Friday with the first one: Ronaldo. The entire line-up of the first Legends XI are the following players: Iker Casillas, Fabio Cannavaro, Franz Beckenbauer, Javier Zanetti, Steven Gerrard, Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini, Diego Maradona, Andriy Schevchenko, Marco van Basten, and Ronaldo Nazário.

Sorare extends free-to-play mode

Instead of having just 8 rounds to play Sorare for free, the Rookie League can now be played without restrictions. This will give the game more options for those not able to put money in, while still enjoying the fun of a fantasy football game. Giving players more options is something they’ve been doing for some time, for example with the introduction of the yellow Limited cards.

Until recently Sorare offered four types of cards with each a different rarity. The light grey common cards aren’t stored on the blockchain, and serve as a free-to-play option for the game. However, the red, blue and brown ones are all NFTs. Each season there are a maximum of 100 red cards per player, 10 blue cards and 1 brown card. The addition of the 1,000 yellow Limited cards, means that players have a cheaper alternative.

In Division 5 players will need 5 Limited cards. Sorare doesn’t allow the common grey ones and the rare red ones in Division 5. In Division 5 gamers can win more Limited Cards and ETH prizes for when they reach the podium. For now Limited cards can’t be used in Division 4.

How to play Sorare

You can play Sorare for free, but that takes away lots of the excitement to be fair. You need to purchase collectible player cards, and the players on these cards will become your team. Each game week you select the players, each represented by an NFT card, of which you think they will perform best.

For every game week managers will need to select a team from the player card collection. They will need one goalkeeper, one defender, one midfielder, one attacker and an extra field player. Players earn points based on the real-life performance of those players. Therefore players that play regularly, are active in winning team, hardly make mistakes, and score a lot of goals, are generally valuable. Each card can only be used once during a game week, but if you have enough cards you can join in multiple leagues.

If you make enough points, you will earn 0.01 or 0.02 ETH. Are you among the best? Then you will receive a free card, which are much more valuable. Learn more on how to play and earn in Sorare here, or sign up for the game here.

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The funds will help Sorare, in their own words, ‘to create the next world champion in sports entertainment by leveraging NFTs’. To achieve this, they will expand their team, sign new partnerships with leagues and national teams, and accelerate the development of their mobile app. However, the thing that stands out the most is the promise to ‘roll out new sports in 2022’. This could mean we will see Sorare move into for example baseball and American football.

The $680 million in funding gives the French tech start-up a multi-billion dollar valuation. As a matter of fact, it’s the biggest fundraising round ever for a French tech company and the largest in Europe for a Series B. The funding round was led by SoftBank, and backed by angel investors like Alexis Ohanian and football players like Gerard Pique, Rio Ferdinand, Antoine Griezmann and Cesar Azpilicueta.

Sorare is a sleeping giant, I already touched upon this in a recent blog post. The new funding should boost their marketing efforts, of which there have currently hardly been anything. Furthermore, Sorare wants to fund small businesses in developing communities, and support the female representation in sports. Yes, that could mean we will soon have the NWSL from the States and the biggest female players from European clubs in Sorare as well. Even though that’s just speculation from my side.

Explain Sorare to me please

Sorare is a fantasy football game powered by blockchain technology. Blockchain technology introduces actual scarcity to digital cards, so these cards have a limited supply. Players can use the cards they’ve bought to create a fantasy team. Each card represents a real player. Based on the performance of that player on the actual pitch, the card holders will earn points. Every week the teams with the most points will earn new cards as a reward. The cheapest cards generally sell for a couple of dollars, while the most wanted ones go for well over a thousand dollars a piece. Join the game!

Ultimately, Sorare’s attraction is twofold. On the one hand you want to have the superstars, purely as a collectible. However, from a gameplay point of view you’d want the cards of players that do important work for their team. For example players with a high pass completion, or strikers that score lots of goals, and defenders that make lots of tackles.

How to play Sorare

You can play Sorare for free, but that takes away lots of the excitement to be fair. You need to purchase collectible player cards, and the players on these cards will become your team. Each game week you select the players, each represented by an NFT card, of which you think they will perform best.

For every game week managers will need to select a team from the player card collection. They will need one goalkeeper, one defender, one midfielder, one attacker and an extra field player. Players earn points based on the real-life performance of those players. Therefore players that play regularly, are active in winning team, hardly make mistakes, and score a lot of goals, are generally valuable. Each card can only be used once during a game week, but if you have enough cards you can join in multiple leagues.

If you make enough points, you will earn 0.01 or 0.02 ETH. Are you among the best? Then you will receive a free card, which are much more valuable. Learn more on how to play and earn in Sorare here, or sign up for the game here.

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Despite the Limited card selling for well over 11 thousand dollars, it’s important to note that this is indeed a Limited card. These yellow-colored cards have been newly introduced, and have a supply of a maximum of 1000 cards per football player per season. Currently Rare cards are also listed for auction, the first one of these sold later today for more than $24.000.

Paris Saint Germain is just one of the latest additions to Sorare. The fantasy football game keeps expanding its footprint. Last week the first club from Peru joined the game, while the week before the game welcomed La Liga.

Sorare has recently moved its ecosystem to a layer-2 solution, allowing users to trade NFTs without having the deal with gas fees. Not only can users see their transferred and earned NFTs much faster, but Sorare also doesn’t need to cover all the gas fees. It’s really a win-win situation that’s saving the tech startup millions of dollars per year.

Explain Sorare to me please

Sorare is a fantasy football game powered by blockchain technology. Blockchain technology introduces actual scarcity to digital cards, so these cards have a limited supply. Players can use the cards they’ve bought to create a fantasy team. Each card represents a real player. Based on the performance of that player on the actual pitch, the card holders will earn points. Every week the teams with the most points will earn new cards as a reward. The cheapest cards generally sell for a couple of dollars, while the most wanted ones go for well over a thousand dollars a piece. Join the game!

Ultimately, Sorare’s attraction is twofold. On the one hand you want to have the superstars, purely as a collectible. However, from a gameplay point of view you’d want the cards of players that do important work for their team. For example players with a high pass completion, or strikers that score lots of goals, and defenders that make lots of tackles.

How to play Sorare

You can play Sorare for free, but that takes away lots of the excitement to be fair. You need to purchase collectible player cards, and the players on these cards will become your team. Each game week you select the players, each represented by an NFT card, of which you think they will perform best.

For every game week managers will need to select a team from the player card collection. They will need one goalkeeper, one defender, one midfielder, one attacker and an extra field player. Players earn points based on the real-life performance of those players. Therefore players that play regularly, are active in winning team, hardly make mistakes, and score a lot of goals, are generally valuable. Each card can only be used once during a game week, but if you have enough cards you can join in multiple leagues.

If you make enough points, you will earn 0.01 or 0.02 ETH. Are you among the best? Then you will receive a free card, which are much more valuable. Learn more on how to play and earn in Sorare here, or sign up for the game here.

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With Club Universitario de Deportes the Sorare ecosystem adds one of the biggest clubs of Peru. They have won 26 first division titles and were the first club to ever reach the finals of the Copa Libertadores. After clubs from Argentina, Mexico and Brazil joined the fantasy football game, Peru is the fourth country to have an official presence.

Sorare has the ambition to embrace as many national leagues as possible. They have signed agreements with entire football competitions, like recently the Spanish La Liga or the Dutch Eredivisie. On the other hand they also work with individual clubs, as they recently signed the Swiss club Sion FC.

Explain Sorare to me please

Sorare is a fantasy football game powered by blockchain technology. Blockchain technology introduces actual scarcity to digital cards, so these cards have a limited supply. Players can use the cards they’ve bought to create a fantasy team. Each card represents a real player. Based on the performance of that player on the actual pitch, the card holders will earn points. Every week the teams with the most points will earn new cards as a reward. The cheapest cards generally sell for a couple of dollars, while the most wanted ones go for well over a thousand dollars a piece. Join the game!

Ultimately, Sorare’s attraction is twofold. On the one hand you want to have the superstars, purely as a collectible. However, from a gameplay point of view you’d want the cards of players that do important work for their team. For example players with a high pass completion, or strikers that score lots of goals, and defenders that make lots of tackles.

How to play Sorare

You can play Sorare for free, but that takes away lots of the excitement to be fair. You need to purchase collectible player cards, and the players on these cards will become your team. Each game week you select the players, each represented by an NFT card, of which you think they will perform best.

For every game week managers will need to select a team from the player card collection. They will need one goalkeeper, one defender, one midfielder, one attacker and an extra field player. Players earn points based on the real-life performance of those players. Therefore players that play regularly, are active in winning team, hardly make mistakes, and score a lot of goals, are generally valuable. Each card can only be used once during a game week, but if you have enough cards you can join in multiple leagues.

If you make enough points, you will earn 0.01 or 0.02 ETH. Are you among the best? Then you will receive a free card, which are much more valuable. Learn more on how to play and earn in Sorare here, or sign up for the game here.

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Sorare already offered cards for Atletico Madrid, Valencia and Real Madrid. However, by signing an agreement with the La Liga organization all clubs join the game for the 2021-2022 season. This means that FC Barcelona, without Lionel Messi, will make its long awaited debut in Sorare. Maybe Ansu Fati, the new number 10 of the club, will become a success on Sorare.

Ultimately, Sorare’s attraction is twofold. On the one hand you want to have the superstars, purely as a collectible. However, from a gameplay point of view you’d want the cards of players that do important work for their team. For example players with a high pass completion, or strikers that score lots of goals, and defenders that make lots of tackles.

It’s important to note that the partnership between La Liga and Sorare is seemingly for multiple years. In the press release they say: “Through Sorare cards, SO5, pitch-side ads, tickets for fans, and by offering unique football experiences that money can’t buy, LaLiga and Sorare are opening the world of NFTs to millions of fans for years to come”.

Today’s NFT card sales on Sorare

More stuff coming

Starting from next week Sorare will sell limited starter pack bundles consisting of a goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, attacker and an extra player, all from the same club. In addition Sorare will celebrate its 200th game week this weekend. The 200 best players of the Special Weekly competition of that round will a El Clasico NFT card, and those who own that NFT will get a trip (details to follow) to a match between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.

How to play Sorare

You can play Sorare for free, but that takes away lots of the excitement to be fair. You need to purchase collectible player cards, and the players on these cards will become your team. Each game week you select the players, each represented by an NFT card, of which you think they will perform best.

For every game week managers will need to select a team from the player card collection. They will need one goalkeeper, one defender, one midfielder, one attacker and an extra field player. Players earn points based on the real-life performance of those players. Therefore players that play regularly, are active in winning team, hardly make mistakes, and score a lot of goals, are generally valuable. Each card can only be used once during a game week, but if you have enough cards you can join in multiple leagues.

If you make enough points, you will earn 0.01 or 0.02 ETH. Are you among the best? Then you will receive a free card, which are much more valuable. Learn more on how to play and earn in Sorare here, or sign up for the game here.

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