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Studios pledge revenues from DLC, ads and even full game sales to charity

UKIE CEO Dr Jo Twist runs through the trade body’s new scheme to help creators fight back against piracy

With nearly 11,000 backers and earnings of over $42k per month, Breeding Season was the highest earning game on Patreon. And now it has been cancelled. Kotaku reports that the title was described as ‘Harvest Moon meets Hentai’ and was, by all accounts, a bit saucy. However, a seemingly unamicable …

Rival Games CEO Jukka Laakso recalls the pitfalls and challenges encountered by the developer as it attempted to keep The Detail alive

Video games charity SpecialEffect is holding its One Special Day initiative today. This sees companies donating all or some of the money they make from game or DLC sales today to the charityfor one day only. SpecialEffect has the support of 30 games firms, including The Chinese Room, First Touch …

Mobile data used to play Pokmon Go will not count against the bills of American T-Mobile consumers. The phone network has announced that it is giving its users who are playing the mobile smash hit free mobile data. This is for a full year. Furthermore, T-Mobile is giving consumers some …

Developer and player clash over statement that ‘pledge amounts applied shall be non-refundable regardless of whether or not RSI is able to complete and deliver the game’

The streaming of gambling sites that use Steam OpenID API has been banned by Twitch. The move follows Valve’s first statement on the subject yesterday, in which it vowed to crack down on the increasingly controversial practise. Valve specifically notes that using ‘the OpenID API and making the same web …

US and Canadian studios with fewer than 16 members and a 2016 release under their belts invited to take part

You think Pokemon Go is big now? You wait until it’s available in every country on the planet. And that might not be that far out. Niantic chief executive John Hanke has told Reuters that his company intends to roll out Pokemon Go to around 200 countries relatively soon”. By …