Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 7.
Money
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp scored $50 million in 289 days
The mobile interpretation of Animal Crossing is slower than all the mobile releases of Nintendo is gaining cash. It took 289 days for the game to earn $50 million. This is 67 days longer than it took Super Mario Run, which the Japanese company does not consider a great commercial success.
Days to set $50 million from users in the world
Recall that the main mobile hit for Nintendo is Fire Emblem Heroes.
The project overcame the specified bar in just 20 days. As a result of one and a half years of operation, the game managed to gain $ 417 million.
Announcements
For the first time in ten years, the Civilization series will appear on consoles
2K Games has announced that Civilization VI will be another game to be released on the Nintendo Switch. Apart from the appearance of Civilization Revolution on the seventh generation of consoles in 2008, this is the first full-fledged phenomenon of the series on set-top boxes.
Civilization VI
The game will be released on November 16.
The novelty will include all the released updates to the desktop version of the game, as well as four additional content sets — with new nations, scenarios and leaders.
Releases
Spider-Man has been released, an exclusive for PlayStation 4 from Insomniac Games
A blockbuster about Spider-Man from the authors of the Spyro and Resistance series has been released on PlayStation 4. The project has already managed to get an average score of 87 points on Metacritic based on a total of 93 reviews. User reaction is also very high — 8.5 out of 10 points.
Spider-Man is a third—person action game in an open world where the user plays as Spider-Man. The closest analogue of the project is Batman: Arkham Knight from Rocksteady Studios.
Spider-Man
Reviewers especially highlight the mechanics of movement in the game, which in itself, according to them, brings great pleasure.
They also note the high-quality story and the perfectly written main character.
The release of Insomniac Games officially launches “hot autumn”. This year from September to November will be released: Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Red Dead Redemption 2, Fallout 76, Battlefield V.
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