Developer Directive Games has made a big announcement for their blockchain game The Machines Arena, revealing that the top-down hero shooter is coming soon to Steam and PS5.
The Machines Arena is coming to Steam on January 14th, 2025, while the PS5 version is currently in development and does not yet have a specific release date. A store page however is already up on the PlayStation Store for anyone to add to their wishlist, and the game is of course also listed and available for wishlisting on Valve’s platform as well. Releasing the game on both platforms opens it up to a much wider gaming audience, and you could help it gain more visibility by adding it to your wishlist.
If the free to play title does release this year on Sony’s console, then it could very well also be the first Ronin game to launch on the PlayStation 5, joining the highly successful Avalanche-powered battle royale Off The Grid, which won “Best Shooter Game” at The PlayToEarn Blockchain Game Awards 2024.
It’s great to see another web3 game coming to consoles and the announcement being made this early in 2025. Hopefully this marks the start of many announcements for console launches throughout this year and onwards. Over the past year, we’ve seen Off The Grid launch in early access on PC, PS5, and Xbox in October 2024, a massive launch that saw millions of wallets created and featured popular Twitch streamers such as Shroud and Ninja playing the game to huge followings, making the web3 title the 5th most viewed game on Twitch during the game’s opening weekend. Developer Gunzilla Games raised $30 million in the lead-up to launch, and have recently partnered with Delphi Ventures to launch the GUNZ Foundation in preparation for token launch and mainnet of their Avalanche-built network.
Shortly after the cyberpunk extraction royale was released, the developers of Moonray announced a PlayStation 5 launch for 2025, a third-person fighting game that you can already play for free on the Epic Games Store. That announcement may have helped Moonray secure $10 million in an oversubscribed funding round led by Animoca Brands, Taisu Ventures, Polygon Ventures, and more.
In the meantime, you can already play The Machines Arena in open beta on PC through Epic’s Store, as well as on Android by downloading the title through its official website. A Google Play Store launch has also been revealed to be coming soon, delivering cross-platform gameplay to allow players to easily continue enjoying the fast-paced title across mobile and PC.
In the same press release announcing the new launches, the studio also shared highlights from The Machines Arena P2A Season 2, during which you could play to airdrop a share of 22 million $TMA tokens.
According to the official post, the second play to airdrop season, which launched in November and lasted for about a month, had 10,000 new players jump in the game during the first week, with players spending 104 minutes per session on average. There was also a new 4v4 match every 9 seconds on average, created with skill-based matchmaking and region-based ping, delivering balanced matches amongst players with similar latency.
Putting stats further into perspective, since the game’s launch of its play to airdrop campaign in late August, there has been a 5726% increase in unique wallets, going from 11,500 to an impressive 670,000 wallets, generating more than 5.5 million on-chain transactions to date, and seeing reportedly about 100,000 daily active users enjoying competitive blockchain gaming.
If you missed out on these seasons, you can look forward to Open Beta Season 3, which will feature a new game mode called the Ultimate League. This season however will take place after the TGE for the $TMA token, making it the first season with full play to earn integration. Info on the TGE date and the starting time for the 3rd season have not yet been revealed.
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