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Guess How Much Google Offered Fortnite to Launch on the Play Store!
In today’s newsletter: Google offered Epic "🤫" to launch Fortnite on Play Store, Hades is coming to Netflix Games, Apple reveals App Store Rewards finalists, and we’re still running a great giveaway with Erabit!
Sune "NimbleThor" Thorsen
November 16, 2023
Mornin’! I’ve got a Mobile Quest riddle for you! Launched in 2015, this game has made more than $10 billion, making it the best-earning mobile game of all time! Can you guess which? (the answer is at the end of the email).
In today’s newsletter:
Google offered Epic $147 million to launch Fortnite on Play Store
Hades is coming to Netflix Games
Apple reveals the “App Store Rewards” finalists
We’re giving out free premium mobile games with Erabit!
A fresh new “memes” section near the end ;)
🎮 Top Story: Google offered Epic $147 million to launch Fortnite on the Google Play Store
In the land of the “Epic vs Google” lawsuit, it’s Christmas EVERY SINGLE DAY🎄
At least that’s how it feels when spicy new gifts details about how both Google and Epic operate are revealed every week.
It turns out Google offered Epic $147m to release (and keep) Fortnite on Google Play. Epic declined, but why did Google even make the offer?
Well, in 2018, Epic released Fortnite Mobile directly through its website. And this got Google fired up. Because what if this created a new standard where game publisher would release their games outside of the Google Play ecosystem?
That wouldn’t be good for Google. And so they offered Epic a big chunk of cash as long as they’d keep Fortnite on Google Play until 2021.
Meanwhile, Epic is now arguing that Google simply tried to maintain their monopoly on app distribution. And that’s the lawsuit summarized.
📢 Mobile Gaming News
The latest mobile gaming news from around the block web.
Frostpunk: Beyond the Ice, a spinoff of their PC town management game, finally secures publishing (I guess you could say they had a… “nice day”)
Apple reveals the finalists for their App Store Rewards, including some actual great games like the indie gem “Afterplace”, and everyone’s favorite “Vampire Survivors”.
Arknights: Endfield, an upcoming 3D RPG drops new trailer
Katana Zero, an action puzzle platformer that has scored a 10/10 on Steam, will launch for mobile via Netflix Games next year
And talking about Netflix, roguelike smash hit Hades will release on mobile via Netflix as well (although exclusively on iOS)
The team behind the mobile shooter Rainbow Six Mobile share their soft-launch plans (which starts with Latin America)
📢 MiniReview x Erabit Giveaway!
We’re celebrating the positive reception of our newsletter “The Mobile Quest” (the one you’re reading right now) with a giveaway from Erabit Studios!
There are 5 keys for each of the great games 20 Minutes Till Dawn Premium, Brotato Premium, and Candy Disaster Premium 🥳
🚀 New releases
Watch out! These games are so fresh they might still be hot!🥵 So just… remember to let them cool off a bit before you eat ‘em.
🏷 Games on sale
What’s better than great premium games? Great premium games that are on sale! So here are some of this week’s most interesting.
$9.99 $0.99 Wreckfest
$7.99 $0.99 Through the Darkest of Times
$4.49 $0.99 Irregular Recruits
$4.99 FREE Data Defense
🤣 Mobile Gaming Memes
Hey, share your favorite mobile gaming meme with us on Twitter to get included next week.
🤔 Community Poll
Which Nintendo game would you LOVE to see on mobile? |
Last week’s poll results
How many of your real-life friends play mobile games?
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ None at all
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 1-2
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 3-5
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 5+
High fives,
Sune “NimbleThor” Thorsen
Founder, MiniReview
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