With a tip of the hat to Independence Day, Korean publisher Gamevil has announced its franchise honouring America's favourite sport Baseball Superstars has just topped 40 million downloads.
Said number has been amassed across both smartphones and feature phones, with the last 10 million downloads having piled up during a six month stretch between November 2011 and May 2012.
Big hitter
"We knew how many people loved baseball, the all-American pastime, so we took the basic gameplay and combined with a Gamevil RPG spin," the firm said in an emailed statement.
"We've come a long way - from the initial Baseball franchise game created in 2002 to the most current, Baseball Superstars 2012 - with each new game improving upon its predecessors."
Since the franchise hit 7 million downloads in September 2008 two months after the launch of the App Store a total of 33 million Baseball Superstars games have been downloaded across formats, signalling an overall surge in the franchise's fanbase post smartphone.
[source: Gamevil]
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