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Kickstarter troll ruins indie dev’s campaign at the last moment
Kickstarter has been a great way for indie developers to fund their games without having to sell their soul to one of the larger publishers, but the platform is not without its flaws. Netherlands-based 2Awesome Studio saw the dark underside of crowdfunding Wednesday when a fraudulent backer pledged thousands of dollars to the dev’s campaign for Dimension Drive, ...
Blizzard cleans house in World of Warcraft by banning thousand of bot users
Cheating will always be a problem with online games, but Blizzard Entertainment dealt a huge blow to dishonest World of Warcraft players this week by handing out half-year bans to thousands of accounts. “We’ve recently taken action against a large number of World of Warcraft accounts that were found to be using third-party programs that automate gameplay, ...
Yooka-Laylee Kickstarter hits $2.4M, DLC will be free for backers
Yooka-Laylee, the spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie, has continued to plow through every funding goal it sets, and the “buddy duo platformer” has recently broken $2.4 million in contributions with over a month still left in the campaign. As a result, all backers will now receive future DLC for the game free of charge. Kickstarter continues to ...
How to get the most out of a Steam sale
Valve Corp.’s Steam store is well known for some amazing sales on video games, especially the summer and winter sales, which have become the equivalent of Black Friday for gamers. With prices slashed by as much as 75 percent or higher and many games selling for only a few dollars, Steam sales are an excellent time to ...
BitTorrent launches an encrypted P2P chat app called Bleep
Filesharing pioneer BitTorrent, Inc. has entered the private communication space with a new secure messenger called Bleep. The service has been in testing for nearly a year, and it is now publicly available on iOS, Android, Windows and Mac. “We’ve been listening,” Farid Fadaie, senior director of product development at BitTorrent, wrote on the company’s blog. “Listening ...
Lily is a flying robot camera that follows you around
If wearing a helmet-mounted GoPro or carrying around a camera on a stick seems like too much of a hassle, then Lily may be the robot for you. Lily is a self-flying camera that is capable of following and recording you wherever you go. While users might be tempted to use the word “drone,” Lily Robotics ...
Konami’s profits more than double despite Kojima controversy
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. has lost a lot of goodwill from fans over their mishandling of the departure of Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima, as well as the cancellation of Kojima’s much-anticipated partnership with horror film legend Guillermo del Toro for Silent Hills. Somehow, despite all of its troubles, Konami managed to increase its ...
Meerkat hires former Tumblr and Twitter media heads to build new partnerships
Live streaming app Meerkat has been generating buzz ever since its well received debut at SXSW Interactive 2015, and now the company behind it is hiring media experts to spearhead an initiative to make some high profile partnerships with Hollywood. Sima Sistani, former head of media and partnerships for Tumblr, has joined Meerkat as its ...
Etsy stock drops 10% due to worries about counterfeit goods
Popular community-driven craft marketplace Etsy took a stock hit today after Wall Street analysts estimated that 5 percent of all of the goods sold through the storefront could violate other companies’ copyrights and trademarks. “Our research indicates as many as 2 million items on Etsy (>5% of all merchandise) may potentially be either counterfeit or constitute trademark ...
Nintendo’s future ‘NX’ console could be region-free
Nintendo Co Ltd has not said much about the in-development console that will replace the Wii U, other than revealing its codename, “NX.” While details on NX have been scarce so far, company president Satoru Iwata has suggested that the console may do away with region locking, allowing it to play any game regardless of its ...