All focus was on TikTok within the final week, as the corporate ready to — and ultimately did — shut down its video-sharing app to stick to a nationwide safety legislation explicitly aimed on the ByteDance-owned firm. However the the U.S. motion has resulted in a broader ripple impact. Marvel Snap gamers found on Saturday evening that the cardboard battle recreation had additionally gone darkish, and had been faraway from Apple and Google app shops similtaneously TikTok. The sport stays offline, together with a number of different apps with connections to ByteDance.
Second Dinner, the U.S.-based developer of Marvel Snap, mentioned in a press release that it was a “shock” that the sport had gotten caught within the web of the TikTok shutdown. However for the reason that recreation is printed by Nuverse, a subsidiary of ByteDance, the app was held to the identical sophisticated requirements as TikTok. Second Dinner was fast to vow that Marvel Snap “isn’t going anyplace.”
The transfer additionally got here as a shock to Marvel Snap gamers, who had obtained no advance warning that the sport would shut down in compliance with the brand new legislation. However at the very least they made some good posts about it.
In keeping with customers who’re additionally hitting a wall and unable to entry or obtain video games, the TikTok ban has affected different Nuverse titles like Land of Empires: Immortal, Land of Empires: Cube Hero, and Mission EVO. Video games from the ByteDance-owned Moonton had been additionally affected by the legislation, together with Cellular Legends: Bang Bang, Cellular Legends: Journey, Watcher of Realms, and One Punch Man: The Strongest.
