Psy makes Gangnam cameo in indie game Crossy Road

Psy -- yes, the Gangnam vogue guy -- can voice his own character in Crossy Road, the triumph portable game from Australian developer meliorist Whale.

The massively well-liked game is obtaining its biggest update nevertheless -- and it\'s a very Korean flavour. meliorist Whale and game publisher Yodo1 have additional ten new characters as well as the Korean rapper.

Psy found fame outside of his native country due to his catchy Gangnam vogue song and music video back in 2012. The video became the foremost vie YouTube video ever, cracking two billion views. At time of writing it\'s presently sitting on two,361,783,436. His followup hits haven\'t established quite as well-liked, however showing in Crossy Road continues to be a major cultural endorsement of mobile games, and a proof of the high esteem during which video games square measure command in Choson.

Crossy Road is misleadingly simple: keep your characters alive as they cross busy roads, rivers and train tracks. It\'s sort of a way-out, vibrant fashionable version of 80s hit Frogger. the sport has tried insanely well-liked. At the sport Developers Conference in port of entry in could, Crossy Road creators Matt Hall and Andy add unconcealed that the sport had been downloaded fifty million times in exactly ninety days.

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Free to transfer, like several mobile games it makes cash from in-app purchases. whereas you\'ll be able to earn new characters, that square measure strictly cosmetic and do not facilitate your score in any approach, if you are impatient you\'ll be able to pay real cash for them. In those ninety days, the sport created $10 million.

Crossy Road presently has around ninety million players, per meliorist Whale, and picked up a sought after Apple style Award at this year\'s Worldwide Developers Conference.

This new Korean update could be a many thanks to the game\'s legion of South Korean fans, per add.

\"Korea is one in every of the countries wherever Crossy Road has been the foremost well-liked,\" he said. \"So we have a tendency to needed to create one thing very special for our fans there, as a many thanks for enjoying our game.\"

The dev team cosmopolitan to South Korea to analysis the culture before coming up with the new content.

Psy, United Nations agency are obtainable as a $2.99 in-app purchase, also will go together with a replacement gameplay mode wherever you would like to follow a lit-up flooring as you traverse the game\'s difficult piece of land.