Evening digest: earning 8 Ball Pool, fitness and Take-Two, video from the author of Threes!
Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 14.
Money
8 Ball Pool earned $400 million
Since its release in 2013, Miniclip’s PvP billiards has generated $400 million. Of these, $20 million was earned in the last quarter. The number of downloads of the game has now exceeded 80 million.
8 Ball Pool
Funny
CEO of Take-Two Interactive has written a book about fitness and proper nutrition
Cool people sometimes do unexpected things. After his 60th birthday, Strauss Zelnick wrote a book about how he manages to be in great shape. Zelnik really looks great for a man who has been heading Take-Two Interactive for eleven years. The latter, we recall, owns 2K Games and Rockstar Games. Prior to that, he managed BMG, Crystal Dynamics and 20th Century Fox.
Strauss Zelnik
Announcements
Nintendo has announced a line of releases for Switch
The main gaming B2C news of the morning is a line of announcements from Nintendo. A week before the Tokyo Game Show 2018, the company told and shared news about 30 future console projects. Many were known in advance. But it was not without surprises. For example, the company announced new parts of Animal Crossing and Luigi’s Mansion.
Video
Author of Threes! about how to be an indie developer, having just received a higher education
A cute and fascinating video from Asher Vollmer, the author of Threes!, and two other indie developers who share their experience of independent development.
Published publications
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