Apple's first iOS game in nearly 11 years is Warren Buffett's Paper Wizard

Apple'southward showtime iOS game in almost xi years is Warren Buffett's Paper Wizard

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Warren Buffett Paper Wizard

Apple doesn't always release iPhone games, but when it does, it prefers to work with multi-billionaires.

The Cupertino, California-based tech giant has partnered up with Warren Buffett — business mogul and i of the wealthiest people on the planet — to launch a new free-to-play iOS game chosen Warren Buffett's Newspaper Wizard.

In the game, players must commitment newspapers to nearby houses by using the touchscreen to control trajectory and ability.

While Los Angeles-based media company Wild animals Designs is credited with developing Paper Wizard, Apple holds all of the rights to the game, making it Apple's offset App Shop title in nearly 11 years. The simply other iOS championship Apple has released is Texas Hold'em, a premium-priced poker game that debuted with the App Store in 2008.

In addition to beingness gratis to play,Paper Sorcererdoesn't actually feature whatsoever in-game purchases. Instead, the officialPaper Wizard website says the game has been made complimentary "so yous can invest your money elsewhere."

To that point, the whole existence of the game stems from the fact that Buffett has invested in Apple tree. For that reason, Apple CEO Tim Melt made a surprise appearance in a video with Buffett at holding company Berkshire Hathaway's annual coming together this by weekend in Omaha, Nebraska.

In the video, Buffett visits a tiptop-secret Apple lab to begin ideas for new inventions, including a time machine that Buffett jokingly says he would use to tell his childhood self to purchase Apple stock. Cook and so suggests Buffett make a newspaper-tossing mobile game inspired by Buffett's childhood newspaper delivery job and subsequent paper-tossing contests at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meetings.

"Warren Buffett used to participate in a paper-toss contest during the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting. Due to the popularity of the event, Warren couldn't toss against everyone. And then he institute another mode for all of his fans to challenge him," Apple and Wildlife Designs explicate as the reason for making the game in an FAQ page.

While nosotros have no shot at topping Buffett's roughly $85 billion USD (virtually $114 billion CAD) net worth, we at present at least accept a take a chance of beating him at newspaper tossing, correct?

The game tin can be downloaded from the App Store here.

Via: MacRumors