mobile card game Marvel Brooch returns to app stores, starting with Google Play. This is according to Developer Second Dinner, which <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/seconddinner/status/1882957014898454727″>announced yesterday was starting the game restore process on Google's Android App Store at 6 pm PT / 3 pm ET that day. the developer <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/seconddinner/status/1882905320001089938″>said in another post
Marvel Brooch was caught up in TikTok's outage last weekend because its original publisher, Nuverse, is owned by TikTok's parent company, ByteDance. The game was back online for players on Monday and <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/seconddinner/status/1881535498709266691″>Second Supper said it planned to “bring more services in-house and partner with a new publisher.” From now on, Marvel Brooch is still “provided, operated and administered by Nuverse,” according to the Privacy Policy on the game website.
An administrator of the Marvel Brooch discord server It also announced a series of compensation packages for players affected by the outage. As seen in the screenshots posted on Redditincluding in-game credits, tokens, and special variants for accounts that were created in the US or showed activity in the US in the 30 days prior to the outage. Non-US players will also receive a “Global Gratitude Package” with similar, albeit smaller, benefits.
Other apps that stopped working last weekend, such as CapCut and Lemon8, have returned online but are not yet listed in the iOS and Android app stores. Although President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Attorney General not to enforce the TikTok ban in the United States, it is unclear whether he can protect Apple or Google from legal liability if they host the apps in defiance of the law.
