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Evening Digest: CryptoKitties have become richer, Zynga and Homescapes clone, 1300 games have been released for Switch

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About the main thing for November 1: CryptoKitties developers raised $15 million; Zynga released a clone of Homescapes, which is visually a copy of Candy Crush; the Switch library has gained a base of 1300 projects in a year and a half.

Investments and BlockchainCryptoKitties Developers Have Raised $15 million


The hype around the crypt and the blockchain has come to naught. However, global majors are still ready to invest in such projects.

GV (aka Google Ventures) and Samsung Next participated in the financing of the Canadian Dapper Labs. The latter is the author of the cryptogame about cats CryptoKitties.

The developer received $15 million. The money will be used to launch an American division, hire employees from Unity, Disney, Ubisoft, Amazon, and other companies, as well as build an infrastructure to attract an audience.


The look of the cat that attracted $15 millionClones and brands

Zynga has released a clone of Homescapes, which is visually a copy of Candy Crush

Zynga decided to contribute to the development of three-in-a-row. The company, which still earns its main money from social casinos, has launched Willy Wonka’s Sweet Adventure.

The game was released under the brand of the painting “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” from 1971. This is a good step for two reasons.

The first is the setting of the film resembles the setting of Candy Crush.

The second is that Zynga already has one successful project in this universe. Willy Wonka Slots Free Casino earns more than $1 million a month. The new three-in-a-row can be a great source of traffic for these slots.

The meta of the novelty is borrowed from the latest Playrix games. The mechanics of the core, as far as can be judged from the first missions, are also taken from there.


Here, as in Candy Crush, — crazy graphicsPlatforms

The Switch library has gained a base of 1300 projects in a year and a half


Since the release of the Nintendo Switch in March 2017, more than 1,300 games have been released for the console in its digital store.

This is a big number. For comparison, a little more than 2000 games have been released for the Xbox 360 for all time. If we talk about the current generation of consoles, then about 1800 projects have been released for the PlayStation 4.

By the way, the number of publishers who today publish games for (including) a portable console has exceeded 500.


There are a lot of games, but the quality of some, as well as their optimization, leaves much to be desiredPublished publications

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