Kim Kardashian Video Game Pulls in $700,000 Daily Average After `Colbert Report’ Announces Competition

Kim Kardashian's video game, Kim Kardashian Hollywood, is breaking all sorts of video game records as it now pulls in about $700,000 a day. Not even Stephen Colbert can stop it.

On Monday's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert said that while he may be clueless as to what Kim Kardashian does, and who among us isn't, that Colbert wants a piece.

Colbert is mainly talking about the millions the reality star is adding to her already unwieldy wealth with her new game app, "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood," which will add about $85 million to Kanye West's wife's riches, because of in-app purchases, but a piece of that famous Kim Kardashian ass.

Colbert introduced his own video game called "Stephen Colbert: I'd Tap That."

Glu meanwhile, which put out the game, is already thrilled to have some Kardashian on tap.

 "Kim's been great to work with," Glu CEO Niccolo De Masi said in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal. "She and I probably exchanged three emails a day and chat weekly. She's approved every item of clothing [used in the game], we discuss features, we discuss events, updates, etcetera. She's reviewed all the [production] milestones, from alpha to beta, final gold master. It was something she caught on quite quickly - the power of her brand and social following would probably be a really good fit with this type of game."

What you got to do in "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood" is move, virtually, to L.A. and go from E-list, which I guess means you host something on the E! Network, to A-List. The best way to get there is sleep with celebrity guests

Kim was reportedly very hands on in the making of the game, even recording her own voice. "We recorded [her] in a studio" De Masi told WSJ. "No one has ever done that."

"Kim Kardashian: Hollywood" is free, but you have buy things in-app to run it, like "Energy," which isn't the same as a double espresso and it takes 90 minutes to get juiced.

San Francisco-based Glu Mobile said "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood" earned $1.6 million in its first five days. It is hanging high at number five on the Apple's App Store.

Glu Mobile will use that money to buy Cie Games, who makes the racing game franchise Racing Rivals, for $100 million. CEO Niccolo de Masi told investors that it will be the largest acquisition in the company's history.

"The Colbert Report" airs Monday to Thursday at 11:30 p.m. ET on Comedy Central. 

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