Evening Digest: Lords Mobile Earnings, Fallout 2 birthday, Final Fantasy 15 analysis
Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for October 1.
Transactions
The authors of games about Kuzya purchased 5th Planet Games for $ 737 thousand
Let’s start the digest with a deal. Hugo Games posted by mobile standards not the largest amount of $ 737 thousand for the 5th Planet Games. It’s funny, but the latter earns about the same amount per year.
In addition to this amount, Hugo Games has committed to invest $ 160 thousand in the development of the sequel Dawn of the Dragons. The original was released in 2013 and, according to a press release, earned $27 million.
Hugo Games is a small company from Copenhagen that specializes in the release of mobile projects, some of which are dedicated to a character named Hugo. The latter is known in Russia as Kuzya.
5th Planet is a 15—person studio located in Sacramento. The studio specializes in battlers in the spirit of Heroes Charge.
Hugo Troll Race Classic
Money
For Lords Mobile already $825 million
In two years, the Lords Mobile Mobile strategy has managed to earn a decent amount. The revenue of the project, created by the Singapore company IGG, reached $825 million. 21% of the amount was earned in the USA, another 20% — in China.
Lords Mobile
Events
September 30 Fallout 2 turned twenty years old
One of the best games in the Fallout series turned twenty on the last day of September. Chris Avellone, one of the designers of the project, reminded the gaming community about this yesterday.
Happy 20th to #Fallout2, I can’t tell you how grateful I had the chance to work on it. Many thanks to Tim, Leonard, Jason, and the whole Fallout 1 team who made the 1st game so special (no pun intended) and paved the way for many more Fallouts to come. <3 #Fallout pic.twitter.com/sPu7tBOxQC
— Chris Avellone (@ChrisAvellone) September 30, 2018
Video
Analysis of the shortcomings of Final Fantasy 15
On the Super Eyepatch Wolf channel, a detailed story appeared about why Final Fantasy 15 cannot be called a successful game from the point of view of world building, plot and implementation of game mechanics.
