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    Mobile games

    Oct 21, 2019 4 minutes
    [ JAMES PINNELL ]

    Mario Kart Tour

    PEAK MONETISATION.

    Free with IAP

    THIS MONTH I had planned to dedicate all these reviews to some of my favourites from the recently launched Apple Arcade, a subscription game service that offers 100+ titles without any ads or in-app purchases. But as it would happen, on the day of its launch, Mario Kart Tour, Nintendo’s latest and most high-profile mobile effort since Super Mario Run, hit the app stores. Unfortunately for me, it was a perfect demonstration as to why Apple Arcade exists in the first place.

    Everything fun is hidden behind a paywall or subscription – handing over your hard-earned cash (or hard in-game grind) gives you a 1% chance of randomly selecting a

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