Swedish YouTube phenom Felix Kjellberg, better known to gamers as PewDiePie, has 27 million subscribers and pulls in around $4 million in ad sales per year. Most of this is straight profit, according to a profile of Kjellberg published in The Wall Street Journal. Kjellberg, 24, created PewDiePie five years ago. In December of 2012, […]
As if the goat phenomenon could get any more unbelievable, now it is being used to help fight world hunger. Goat Simulator developer Coffee Stain Studios has teamed up with Escape Goat 2 creator MagicalTimeBean and charity organization Heifer International to bring animals to poverty-stricken areas of the world. To incentivize donations to Heifer, the […]
A common criticism of certain games in The Legend of Zelda series–Skyward Sword, in particular–is that there are too many things, like tutorials, that get in your way of playing. Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma is aware of this concern and is consciously trying to avoid having it come up again in the future. “When we […]
The official Microsoft Store on eBay (via Slickdeals) is currently selling the Xbox 360 version of acclaimed open-world action game Grand Theft Auto V for $20. Shipping is free. There’s no word on when this deal will expire, so you may want to act quickly. The markdown comes a week after Rockstar Games announced that […]
Microsoft’s director of Xbox Live programming, Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, will speak this week at his high school’s graduation ceremony in Connecticut, he Many high schools in Connecticut get out this week. Prior to joining Microsoft, Hryb spent more than a decade working as the director of promotions at Clear Channel for WKSS in Hartford […]
Following this year’s E3, we’ve compiled a list of all the Xbox One games that will be available by the end of 2014. If a game has an announced release date, it is written next to the game title. Keep in mind that the release dates for upcoming games is subject to change. But with […]
Following this year’s E3, we’ve compiled a list of all the PlayStation 4 games that will be available by the end of 2014. If a game has an announced release date, it is written next to the game title. Keep in mind that the release dates for upcoming games is subject to change. But with […]
There are undoubtedly similarities between The Destiny alpha test wrapped up yesterday, and while it’s prompted numerous jokes and critiques about Peter Dinklage’s voice acting, the consensus is that it’s an absolutely beautiful game. We’ve only seen it running on the PlayStation 4, but considering this is a game that will be released on last-generation […]
Michael Thomasson The auction for the world’s biggest video game collection has ended, with a mystery bidder taking the 11,000-title lot for three quarters of a million dollars. The winning bid, after 56 offers, was $750,250 by a GameGavel bidder going by the username “peeps_10091970.” Auction holder Michael Thomasson launched the auction earlier this month […]
When Microsoft finally unveiled last week that a new Crackdown is in the works, you may have noticed it was never referred to as Crackdown 3. That’s due in part to Microsoft Studios boss Ken Lobb disliking that naming convention, and partially because of what the new Crackdown is. “You can blame me for 20 […]
