YGG Play and Delabs Games Launch Baseball Game for Degens, GIGACHADBAT

[18 SEPTEMBER 2025, 8:00AM EST / 8:00PM SGT] YGG Play has announced a publishing partnership with Delabs Games, the Web3 arm of 4:33 Creative Lab, to launch its newest title, GIGACHADBAT, on Abstract Chain. Designed as a bite-sized and easy-to-pick-up baseball game, GIGACHADBAT lets players swing and score points that can be redeemed for YGG tokens and Abstract XP.

The partnership represents a major step for YGG Play, as its publishing expertise and track record with LOL Land — which has surpassed US$2.5 million in lifetime revenue since its launch in May 2025 — positions it as the ideal publisher to bring GIGACHADBAT to the global Casual Degen audience, players who value light and accessible gaming experiences.

“We’re thrilled to partner with YGG Play on GIGACHADBAT,” said James Joonmo Kwon, aka JMK, founder and co-CEO of Delabs Games. “This is more than publishing — it’s about creating a fun, snackable experience with a fast core loop, simple mechanics anyone can pick up instantly, and the added thrill of redeeming points for YGG tokens.”

Delabs Games is a South Korean Web3 game development studio led by co-CEOs JMK and JC Kim, and backed by investors including Hashed, Spartan Group, and TON Ventures. Yield Guild Games (YGG) also invested in Delabs Games in a strategic funding round and Series A in June and August 2024, respectively, marking YGG’s early commitment and alignment with the studio’s long-term vision for Web3 gaming. Since its launch in 2023, the Delabs ecosystem has grown to over 25 million users, with a gaming portfolio that includes Rumble Racing Star, Boxing Star X, and Ragnarok Libre.

JMK is a 25-year veteran of the gaming industry and the former CEO of Nexon, one of the world’s leading video game developers and publishers. During his tenure at Nexon, Kwon significantly expanded the company’s portfolio, bringing globally celebrated titles such as Crazyracing KartRider, MapleStory, Dungeon Fighter Online, and Mabinogi to millions of players worldwide. After leaving Nexon, he founded 4:33 Creative Lab, the parent company of Delabs Games, which rose to prominence with the success of Blade, the first mobile game to win the prestigious Korea Game Awards. JMK is widely recognized as a pioneer in mobile gaming, having led the development of the first Unreal Engine-powered MMORPG for mobile, delivering console-quality graphics to handheld devices. He also introduced innovative gyroscope-based controls for real-time player-versus-player (PVP) battles, a feature that has become a standard in competitive mobile gaming.

Kim brings deep technical expertise and a strong background in Web3 game development. In 2017, he was named among Forbes Asia’s top 30 young innovators in enterprise technology. He also serves as the CEO of Planetarium Labs, where he led the launch of the Web3 game Immortal Rising 2, which was deployed on Immutable zkEVM powered by Polygon. He also created Verse8, a next-generation AI game maker and playground leveraging a WebGL game engine, LLM, and MCP integration.

“I really respect James, JC, and the Delabs team. They’ve built some of the world’s most successful games and bring decades of credibility and expertise to Web3,” said Gabby Dizon, co-founder of Yield Guild Games (YGG). “Their vision of accessible Web3 games matches our goals for the Casual Degen audience, and we’re going to make sure GIGACHADBAT reaches its real potential.”

GIGACHADBAT currently has nearly 26,000 followers on X. The game will launch on September 18, 2025, alongside an exclusive GIGACHADBAT-themed map for LOL Land. The game will also have a launch event on September 22, 2025, during Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) 2025.