All the main news of the day in one publication. Today’s release: There’s hope for a new Earthworm Jim, Hiro Kojima and Tom Schiffer are killing zombies and a lot of Nintendo.
Sacrifice and Earthworm Jim may have a new owner
Such iconic titles as Descent, Freespace, Kingpin, Giants, MDK, Sacrifice and Earthworm Jim will go under the hammer. Interplay sells the rights to its titles. In total, there are about 70 franchises in the company’s portfolio. No one believed in the resurrection of one of the brightest publishers of the 90s anyway, but now it has finally become clear: there is nothing to wait for. On the other hand, maybe we will finally see remakes and sequels of our favorite series.
Cult game developers will be able to kill zombies
Indie team Underdog Studios is developing a platformer Dawn of the Devs, in which Hiro Kojima, Biff Klozinsky and Tom Schiffer fight zombies. According to the trailer, the game resembles a variation on the theme of The Lost Vikings. Kojima’s ability, for example, to hide in a cardboard box. Now the game is raising money on Kickstarter. By default, we are already waiting and loving.
World of Warcraft is still loved
This November, the Blizzard online game will be 12 years old. This does not prevent updates to it from diverging at the speed of grandma’s hot pies. The last of them – Legion – was sold out in the amount of 3.3 million on the first day of sales (August 30). This is according to the full price, if anything (in Russia, you have to pay 1999 rubles for it).
Nintendo has become more expensive, but its shares are cheaper than 9 years ago
Yesterday’s announcement of the new part of Super Mario for mobile devices at the presentation of the iPhone 7 gave a temporary 29% increase in Nintendo shares – up to $36.32. Today, the price has dropped, but not much – to $33.51. Before the Apple presentation, the paper was given $30.11. To understand the situation: after the start of the hype around Pokemon in July, $37.37 was given for a share at the peak. Do you think a lot? In November 2007, when it became known that sales of the Nintendo Wii were higher in the United States than those of the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 together, $76.80 was given for one share.
Super Mario Run is made by the authors of the original Super Mario (literally, the same people)
Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda and many other titles, told about this in an interview with Time. He himself leads Super Mario Run as a producer, and Takashi Tezuka, designer and producer of Super Mario Bros., Mario Kart: Double Dash! and Animal Crossing: New Leaf, is one of the team members. DeNA also helps a little.
Pokémon Go earned $500 million in 60 days
App Annie, who calculated this, assures that there will be a billion by the end of the year. And he mentions the high retention. We mean that, of course, the popularity of the game may fall, the outflow of users may be rapid, but $ 500 million in 60 days! No one has ever earned so much at the games!