‘Uno’ Gets a Global Mobile Freemium Re-Release by NetEase
When it comes to game IPs that get passed around like scabies on a pirate ship, the only game that I can think of that has seen more iterations done by more different developers than Uno would have to be Tetris. If you’re like me and have owned a bunch of different software platforms over the years, chances are you’ve already bought Uno a bunch of different times. (Anyone remember the Xbox Live Arcade one with the web cam feed which seemed to be exclusively used by guys showing off their junk") On the iPhone, the story of Uno actually dates all the way back to late 2008, and was one of the first games that Gameloft brought to the App Store. Believe it or not, we were super stoked to pay eight bucks for it, doubly so when they added online multiplayer. Fast forward a couple years later, and Gameloft’s Uno was dripping with freemium shenanigans and eventually got removed from the App Store entirely.
Well, the mobile Uno torch has since been passed to NetEase who has had a version of the game soft launched for a very long time now which only went global today. It’s been available in the US for about two months now, but if you live in a tiny App Store market like Thailand and somehow managed to make it through your day without having the latest free to play iteration of Uno on your iOS or Android device, you now have one less thing to worry about. The game is now available globally on both the App Store and Google Play. (Although it would seem that...
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