David Hanson, CEO of Ultra Games, just debuted the new gaming platform to help bridge the gap between web2 and web3. Ultra Games is described as a comprehensive video gaming entertainment platform. They just announced the launch of “a next-generation PC games store that offers a unique, blockchain-enabled experience for both players and developers”.
The team says they are hoping to reduce fees and create new revenue streams for developers and offer “genuine ownership for players”. The platform includes a storefront, a curated library, and a powerful launcher. It features an extensive catalog of games, encompassing both web3 titles and popular PC games.
Nicolas Gilot and David Hanson are Co-CEOs at Ultra.

With the integration of BNB Chain, top BNB Chain NFTs like Goodfellas and PixelSweeper will now be available on OpenSea. The BNB Chain support also shows OpenSea efforts in its multi-chain expansion as the marketplace recently added support for Avalanche and Arbitrum.
The marketplace announced on Twitter that every BNB Chain NFT collection with a transaction that took place after Jan 1st, 2022, will be available on OpenSea. OpenSea’s integration of the BNB Chain hopes to enhance the NFT trading experience for over 1 million existing users and onboard new users.
The program, known as the Growth Incentive Program, will initially support 10 projects in the fourth quarter, with gas incentives of up to 800 BNB tokens a month in total. In addition, individual projects can receive $1 million a month to cover fees spent on gas, the transaction fee paid to blockchain network validators for their services.
Qualification criteria for the program require that projects achieve a baseline target of daily active users every month that is consistent with proof of growing user adoption. Only projects already deployed on the chain are eligible, but they can be at any stage of their journey as long as they have shown consistent user growth.
Gwendolyn Regina, investment director at BNB Chain, stated: “Through the Growth Incentive Program, BNB Chain aims to support projects at various stages of growth and provide direct support for user acquisition.” 
Over a period of two weeks, around one hundred and fifty teams joined the program. After a rigorous selection process, nine teams were selected as winners. These nine teams cover mainly gaming, infrastructure, lifestyle, and DeFi sectors.
Ancient8 is building a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and infrastructure layer for GameFi with a focus on community and software platforms. As one of Vietnam’s largest blockchain gaming guilds, Ancient8 enables individuals to build and play in the Metaverse through scholarship, education, community, institutional-grade research, and blockchain software products.

Projects based on BNB Chain can now access Google Cloud infrastructure including the ability to analyze on-chain data and encrypt information through Google Cloud. About 150 projects under a BNB-focused accelerator program will also get “accelerated access” to Google Cloud’s startup support program.
This latest cooperation with BNB Chain follows Google’s accelerating step into the web3 world. Earlier this year, Google Cloud added crypto mining malware threat detection service and launched its new dedicated Digital Assets Team.

The new NFT dashboards will provide insights into market-related data including top collections traded, profit leaderboards, latest minting activity, and minting leaderboards.
The dashboards will also include NFT God Mode, which enables users to zoom into specific collections to gain insights on when a contract was deployed and number of NFTs in circulation, average price & volume and distribution of individual transactions.
The NFT Wallet Provider NFT gives users the ability to look up the trading portfolios and the profits of any collection. Additional market data will also be provided, including breakdowns of contracts, holders, and trades.
Paul Harwood, Product Manager at Nansen, stated: “Given the current macro conditions along with the fact that NFT investing/trading can be highly speculative, we believe that the availability of NFT-related on-chain data can assist users in carrying out due diligence and making informed decisions.”

Polkastarter is a leading decentralized fundraising platform for web3 games. Their goal is to help enable innovative crypto gaming projects to kick-start their journey and organically grow their communities. Polkastarter apparently already has a community of over 70,000 plus players, as well as 30,000 plus twitter followers. All claimed to be organically grown.
Polkastarter describes itself as a multi-chain platform where users can participate in IDOs and NFT sales on Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, Celo, and Avalanche.
