News - Celeste has sold over 500,000 copies since January

Celeste has sold over 500,000 copies since January

<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/celeste-has-sold-over-500000-copies-since-january.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Matt Makes Games’ acclaimed platformer <em>Celeste </em>has sold over 500,000 copies since launching back in January.  </p>
<p>Game director and designer Matt Thorson <a href="https://twitter.com/MattThorson/status/1076234222380113920">broke the news on Twitter</a>, and promised to update Celeste with some new “farewell levels” in 2019. </p>
<p>Thorson and programmer Noel Berry initially created a prototype of <em>Celeste</em> for the Pico-8 virtual game console during a four-day game jam. </p>
<p>That early version of the game has since been dubbed ‘<em>Celeste Classic</em>,’ and contained 30 challenging levels designed to test the skills of platforming aficionados and speedrunners. </p>
<p>Eventually, Thorson and Berry decided to turn their prototype into a full-fledged release, and brought the finished product to the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Windows, Linux, and MacOS earlier this year.</p>
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