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🚀 Team Forge has landed at GDC! 🚀 We’re at GDC 2025 showcasing Forge Direct—the ultimate go-to-market strategy for games. Want to turn your community into your biggest growth engine? We’ve got you covered. 📢 Special GDC Offer: Use code GDC2025 for 3 months FREE of Forge Starter! Find us at GDC or scan the QR code to learn more. Let’s forge the future of game growth together! 🔥 🔗 https://forge.gg/gdc

Forge Direct is live! 🚀 We’ve rolled out major updates to help game devs take control of growth—new UI with custom domain hosting, upgraded Quest management, raffle tools, Xsolla-powered web shop integrations, and more. Plus, analytics tracking and a points redemption system coming soon! Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gxFshkxa

Big news, we’re making Forge’s community building tools available to all game developers, for free! Since launching in October 2023, Forge has been pioneering innovative tools to help games build engaged, thriving communities. Now, we’re putting these powerful tools directly into your hands. With Forge Direct, you can create fully customizable, interactive community hubs and pages hosted right on your own domain. No more static websites—Forge Direct helps you drive real player engagement, grow your audience, and boost monetization on your terms. Why Forge Direct? • Fully Customizable: Easily build a dynamic community HQ that can complement or even replace your static website—without writing a single line of code. Oh, and it’s all hosted on your own domain. • Reward Your Fans: Your players already want to support your game—Forge Direct helps you close that loop, allowing you to directly incentivize and reward fans for promoting and playing. • Deeper Insights: Get detailed analytics on player behavior that you won’t find anywhere else to optimize your marketing and monetization strategies. 🚀 Announcing Web Shop Integrations 🚀 Alongside today’s update, we’re introducing new features for our game developer partners, including Xsolla-powered webshop integrations. Now, you can sell in-game items directly to players, avoiding the platform tax from Steam, iOS, and Android. Plus, direct player purchases can be rewarded with Loyalty Points, driving even more engagement. To date, our 75+ game partners have driven over 25 million quests completed on Forge. Learn more or sign up now and start building your own Forge Direct page—for free—at build.forge.gg

Team Forge is heading to #GDC2025! Game discovery is broken, and we’re here to fix it. Let’s chat about how Forge can help you own your audience, boost engagement, and drive revenue—directly. 🫡 See you all next week 🙌

We’re hyped to be part of the #SuiGamingSummit! Join us on March 18 in San Francisco to explore the future of gaming. Don’t miss out—register now! https://lnkd.in/gi4DsXwh

We’re heading to #DICE2025! Let’s connect, talk games, and how Forge can help you grow your community! Drop us an email hello@forge.gg or reach out to Gabriel Perez + Ben Goldhaber 🔜 DICE, GDC to get in touch!

Game devs - let's talk!

Steam Next Fest is a critical moment for your game. It's a one of the best places to drive awareness, sales, and grow your community. But if you go into Next Fest without a plan, you're not likely to see a major lift. Luckily, our team of industry veterans at Forge are here to help with some tips and tricks to considering going into #NextFest later this month. Plus, we're giving away 3 months of Forge for FREE to indie devs who want to take advantage of Forge's tools to improve discovery. Let's talk!

Our CEO, Kun Gao, recently joined the Naavik Podcast to discuss his incredible journey from co-founding Crunchyroll—now the world’s largest anime streaming platform—to pioneering AI-based in-game moderation at GGWP and, of course, building Forge! During the episode, Kun dives into: • Growing Crunchyroll to over 120 million users • Leveraging AI to improve online experiences at GGWP • Creating Forge, with a vision to game makers to manage and take ownerships over their direct-to-player relationships in a deeper and more meaningful way. Give it a listen if you’re eager to learn about scaling startups, fostering vibrant communities, and of course, our vision and mission at Forge.

We’re thrilled to share some exciting updates and milestones from the Forge team 🎉 First, we’ve reached over 1 million registered users! This is a testament to your enthusiasm and support, and gives us confidence we’re building something valuable for game developers and gamers alike. 🚀 Second, we’re welcoming a series of new investors to the Forge team, including leading gaming protocols Ava Labs and Sui Foundation, plus gaming and crypto insiders Chris Wang of ThunderCore protocol, Dingaling, James Zhang of Crypto Art House, Shan of Project Godjira and advisory firm AP Collective. 🙏 Third, in less than 1 year, we can proudly say that we’ve partnered with more than 60 games to support them in their community development and growth strategy. 🎮 We are incredibly grateful to our partners, investors, and community, and promise to double down on providing value to you and the games industry as a whole. Onwards! #web3gaming #token2049 #web3investing All this and more covered by Dean Takahashi and GamesBeat! https://lnkd.in/gXBbYS38