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PewDiePie says ad blockers are partly to blame for the creation of YouTube Red
Felix Kjellberg, the YouTube mega-celebrity better known as PewDiePie, has proven that it still possible to succeed in web video without being a multinational media corporation, but the Swedish 26-year-old said that making a living off of YouTube is not easy, even for YouTube itself. According to Kjellberg, that is why YouTube launched its recently announced YouTube ...
IndieCade co-chair John Sharp steps down, says the conference doesn’t really help indie devs
John Sharp has announced that he is stepping down from his role as co-chair of the annual indie game conference IndieCade, explaining that he no longer believes that conferences are the way to help independent game developers succeed. “Implicit in my work with IndieCade was a belief that conferences—the talks, the panels and the interstitial ...
EA is betting heavily on the success of Star Wars Battlefront, raises 2016 outlook
Simply having the Star Wars name is already enough to guarantee at least a few sales for a game, especially this year with the first new Star Wars film in more than a decade releasing in December, but Electronic Arts Inc. is betting that its upcoming team shooter, Star Wars Battlefront, will do more than bank on a ...
IBM’s Weather Company purchase lets it do more than predict the weather | #IBMinsight
IBM recently announced that it had acquired The Weather Company’s business-to-business, mobile and cloud-based web properties, and the data gained in this acquisition will allow the company to do more than tell you if you need an umbrella today. Inhi Cho Suh, VP of strategy and business development of IBM Analytics, said that the weather has ...
The Steam Halloween sale is here with deals on dozens of spooky games
Some of the Steam Store’s smaller seasonal sales may not get users as excited as the gigantic Summer and Winter sales, but this year’s Steam Halloween Sale might change that by offering great deals on dozens of popular titles. The Halloween sale will run until November 2 at 10am PST. As is the usual case with the ...
Twitch kicks off new Creative category with Bob Ross ‘The Joy of Painting’ marathon
While video games helped Twitch become the livestreaming giant that it is today, the Amazon-owned service is slowly trying to expand beyond gaming, and this week it launched a dedicated Creative category for streamers who want to show off their artistic talents. “All along, the Twitch community has included a determined community of artists, crafters ...
Paradox Interactive acquires ‘Vampire: The Masquerade’ publisher White Wolf
Stockholm-based game publisher Paradox Interactive AB has announced that it has purchased White Wolf Publishing, the tabletop role-playing game publisher behind the popular World of Darkness franchise, which includes Vampire: The Masquerade and several other urban fantasy series set in the same universe. Eve Online maker CCP Games was the previous owner of White Wolf, which it had ...
Nintendo’s first smartphone title ‘Miitomo’ is more social app than game
Over half a year has passed since Nintendo Co Ltd first announced that it would begin developing its own smartphone games through a partnership with fellow Japanese game studio DeNA Co LTD, and now Nintendo has finally revealed a few details about its first ever mobile title, which is says will be available in March 2016. ...
Infrastructure goes through ‘biggest change in 25 years’ | #oow15
It may be cliche to say that technology advances quickly, but that is the only way to describe the innovations in infrastructure today, according to Dave Donatelli, executive VP of converged infrastructure at Oracle. “All that type of speed is having a huge impact on infrastructure,” Donatelli told John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, ...
Warner Bros’ play to appease Arkham Knight PC players is to give them games they probably already own
Gamers who purchased the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight have been waiting for over four months for the extremely buggy game to be fixed and re-released, and today that wait is finally over. Some angry Arkham fans have been demanding that publisher Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment offer some kind of bonus or freebie as an apology ...
