The folks at Exploding Kittens, one of the most popular tabletop games from the past five years, are putting out fires all over the place thanks to the coronavirus.
When the coronavirus hit, retailers and others learned the hard way how their physical and digital businesses were intertwined. It showed how the company, in this case, could benefit from a 40% week-to-week increase in demand, but be left staggering because its factories in China were idled. And it made the need to create a free-to-play version of the game more urgent, as well as a version that people could play with their friends when connected by video calls, said Elan Lee, cofounder of Exploding Kittens, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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