Apart from NFT's and tokenomics, there are other possibilities like gaming you mentioned in the Hive ecosystem and technological infrastructure Hive already has.
Gaming and web3 be also coordinated to make the games more lively, vibrant, attracting and beneficial for blockchain users.
I am waiting for the newer annexation, if it does - more people will be there to grab the chances to join and engage.
Hope those projects come soon.
The blockchain complications makes it hard. It is not as easy as playing a web2 game. The game might look like it but if they want to earn, they have understand web 3 concepts which is definitely not easy to understand.