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[Updated] Nix Hydra’s Egg! mobile game tops 2 million downloads in first two weeks

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nix Hydra is on a roll with its Egg! mobile game. The female-run company launched Egg! on June 2, and it has been downloaded more than 2 million times on the Apple iOS app store, Google Play, and the Amazon Appstore.

The pet-care title is the third game from Los Angeles-based Nix Hydra, which two young women out of college started and now has 35 employees.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.