Pocket Gamer.Biz

Philip La on moving from Pokémon GO to Axie Infinity

Following his recent move from Pokémon GO product manager at Niantic to Sky Mavis, serving as game product lead for Axie Infinity, Philip La spoke with PocketGamer.biz about moving from one of the ...
MarketWatch

Crypto from a Pokémon Go-like game has nearly doubled in 4 days. Here’s why Axie Infinity and its NFTs are all the rage.

Play-to-earn NFT platform Axie Infinity’s AXS token has almost doubled in four days, pushing its price to an all-time high of about $155 on Monday. The platform on Thursday, Sept. 30 enabled staking, ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz

Sky Mavis appoints former Pokémon Go product manager as Axie Infinity game product lead

Blockchain games outfit Sky Mavis has appointed former Niantic product lead Philip La as its game product lead for Axie Infinity. Whilst at Niantic, La served as product manager for Pokémon Go and was ...
Kotaku

Crypto Gaming ‘Landlords’ Upset They Can’t Keep Exploiting All The Players Quitting

Axie Infinity is the crypto-backed Pokémon clone in which cute little creatures that double as NFTs battle for fun and profit. It’s also a pyramid scheme that relies on cheap labor from countries like ...
Kotaku

Report: $540 Million Crypto Gaming Hack Made Possible By Elaborate Phishing Scheme

NFT Pokémon clone Axie Infinity went from being famous for players profiting off its “play-to-earn” gaming scam to infamous for getting hacked out of $540 million in cryptocurrency. Now according to a ...