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Sega's Crazy Taxi: City Rush rolls over its mobile game rivals in August downloads

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sega’s Crazy Taxi: City Rush, a reimagining of an old console game, reached the No. 1 worldwide rank on top iOS game downloads for the month of August, according to market analyst firm App Annie. The results from the rankings show there are still many different strategies that game companies can pursue as they make their way to the top of the mobile charts.

Sega tapped the original Crazy Taxi creator Kenji Kanno and Sega mobile developer Hardlight Studios to recreate Crazy Taxi, where you drive like a crazy person to rake in the fares and get to your destinations on time. Introduced on July 31, the polished app introduced a 15-year-old franchise to a new generation of mobile gamers across a bunch of countries.

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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.