If you hang out on Twitter, you must have seen the yellow and green squares of wordle. The buzzword game works so well that the New York Times decided to take it over.
The game will initially stay free and the creator will make sure players can keep their progress.
New York Times x Motus
Definitely, January will have been rich until the end in terms of surprise buyouts on the video game side. After Microsoft which offers Activision Blizzard and Sony which retaliates with Bungie, here comes… wordle retrieved by The New York Times. Admittedly, this latest acquisition is not really comparable to the other two, both in terms of importance for the industry and the amount paid, but the element of surprise remains.
In a post, Josh Wardle, the creator of the word-based puzzle game to discover, which takes up the concept of Motus (and which has inspired a lot of clones and adaptations in French in recent weeks) declares that his game will remain free for players, new and old, once it is offered within the other games of the New York Times. The newspaper, however, specifies that wordle will stay “ initially free “, which augurs a potential pay wall future…
Finally, if the exact redemption amount is not known, note that it is a question of a seven-digit number.
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Source: The Verge
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