GameStop NFT’s first day, Limewire trends and game dev attacks!

GameStop’s new NFT marketplace took home roughly $44,500 from transaction fees in the first 24 hours after it launched via a public beta on Monday.

GameStop NFT reportedly generated around $1.98 million worth of NFT sales on its first full day of business. As the platform charges a 2.25% fee on NFT sales, this equates to roughly $44,500 worth of fees.

While that sum may seem underwhelming, considering it would represent just 0.27% of GameStop’s daily revenue for 2021, it depends on your perspective. According to gaming news outlet Kotaku, GameStop had 4,816 stores across the U.S. at the start of 2021, which on average accounted for $3,426 worth of daily net sales for the company.

To provide further contrast, despite much anticipation in the lead-up to its launch in May, Coinbase NFT generated just $75,000 worth of NFT sales on its first day, and took roughly a month to generate $1 million worth of sales volume. Coinbase NFT also offered zero fees to attract new users that month.

GameStop NFT, which is based on Ethereum Layer 2 Loopring, is currently home to a long list of new and unknown NFT projects. However, it will soon be home to several projects from Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution, Immutable X such as Gods Unchained, and Guild of Guardians. The duo partnered back in February to develop NFT games together.

At this stage, the MetaBoy NFT project depicting animated GameBoy-like console avatars is the marketplace’s top-selling collection so far, and has generated 989.597 ETH worth of volume, or $1.1 million at current prices.

When game devs attack: ‘Why NFTs are a nightmare’

Video game developer Mark Venturelli launched a surprise attack on NFTs during Brazil’s International Games Festival on Friday. The event was sponsored by multiple NFT/blockchain companies such as Lakea and Ripio.

Venturelli, known for his work on Chroma Squad was penciled in to provide a virtual presentation on the future of gaming, however after introducing himself he promptly switched gears by launching into a tirade about “why NFTs are a nightmare.”

Venturelli’s presentation, which also has an English version, essentially argues that the introduction of speculative economic activity via NFTs will end up ruining the experience for people who just want to play games for fun.

During an interview with PC Gamer on July 11, Venturelli said:

“What’s actually going to happen is that organized groups are going to operate and scale…