Reddit Co-Founder to Star in Dungeons & Dragons: The Documentary

June 25, 2012

Apparently Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has turned his Brooklyn Heights, New York apartment into a set for an upcoming documentary on Dungeons & Dragons.

While Ohanian hasn't played D&D since high school, the Reddit co-creator tweeted that he will be interviewed for the documentary and will have his Brooklyn Heights apartment temporarily transformed into a D&D themed set.

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Canadian Diablo III Player First in the World to Beat Game on Hardest Difficulty Level

June 20, 2012

After a little fact checking (on the part of Blizzard) and some discussion about if it was a legitimate claim, Canadian Diablo III player Kripparrian (with help from wizard friend Krippi) is officially the first person in the entire world to complete Blizzard's RPG on the Inferno difficulty level. He did this with a Hardcore character to boot, which means that the game ends if you die.

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Gamer Raises $1.5 Million for Save The Children

June 18, 2012

At DreamHack Summer 2012, it was announced that Bachir "Athene" Boumaaza has reached an incredible milestone: he has raised $1,000,000 in the name of Save The Children, a global charity that helps feed and educate children in poor countries around the globe.

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Humble Bundle V Inches Towards $5 Million With Hours to Go

June 14, 2012

With only a few more hours to go, the Humble Indie Bundle V is inching towards $5 million dollars. As of this writing the total number of payments made is at $4,969,788.10 on the sale of 584,349 bundle purchases. The pay-what-you-want DRM free bundle is doing so well because of the games in it and the price people are willing to pay for them: the average price currently stands at $8.50.

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Aisha Tyler to Haters: Go F**K Yourselves

June 13, 2012

Aisha Tyler, the co-star of the popular FX animated series Archer, has a word or two for YouTube and Twitter commenters saying derogatory things about her being a fake gamer and her E3 Ubisoft Press Conference performance: I was a gamer before you were born. In an open letter on her Facebook page Tyler explains in great detail why she's a real gamer.

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Stainless Games’ Carmageddon Reincarnation Gets Fully Funded

May 29, 2012

With 11,638 backers, the Kickstarter for Isle of Wight-based video games developer Stainless Games has successfully funded Carmageddon Reincarnation. The remake of the popular racing game that encourages using your car as a weapon against innocent bystanders has raised $445,895 (as of this writing). The developers were asking for $400,000. The project still has eight days to go before funding closes.

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Happy Memorial Day

May 28, 2012

On behalf of everyone here at GamePolitics we wish our readers a safe and happy holiday. We hope you are enjoying your extended weekend (assuming you had an extended weekend and didn't have to work for the "man" today) and are out having fun on the unofficial start of summer.

I won't rehash it here, but if you want a detailed explanation of what Memorial Day is all about and why it is a very important holiday to a majority of Americans, then you should check out usmemorialday.org.

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The Game Industry Trio in Fast Company's Top 100 Most Creative People

May 25, 2012

Business publication Fast Company has unveiled its list of the Top 100 Most Creative People for 2012, and many familiar names have made the cut this year. The list, which the publication calls an "annual celebration of business innovators who dare to think differently," honors Double Fine's Tim Schafer, EA Sports executive vice president Andrew Wilson, and SuperBetter Labs Director of Design Chelsea Howe.

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Advocacy Groups Launch ‘Privacy is Awesome’ to Fight CISPA and SECURE IT Act

May 25, 2012

Advocacy groups Fight for the Future, Democrats.com, The Liberty Coalition, and the Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA), have banded together to create a new website called Privacy Is Awesome, to fight against CISPA and the Senate version of the bill, SECURE IT Act. The site is designed to teach netizens how to defeat the bills in five easy steps:

National STEM Video Game Challenge Winners Announced

May 23, 2012

The winners of the National STEM Video Game Challenge were announced today at The Atlantic's Technologies in Education Forum in Washington, DC. The competition was designed to motivate youngsters throughout the country to promote the importance of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by making video games.

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Fallout Developers Will Help Fallout Fan Series if They Raise Enough Cash

May 23, 2012

Season two of the ultra popular Fallout-based fan web series, Fallout: Nuka Break, will get the help of Fallout: New Vegas designer Chris Avellone and the original Fallout lead programmer Tim Cain - if they can raise $120,000 in their latest Kickstarter appeal. Both have agreed to sign on to season two as writers and designers and make guest appearances if the creators of the show can raise enough cash.

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Someone Has Already Beaten Diablo III

May 15, 2012

How long does it take to complete the single player campaign in Diablo III on Normal difficulty? I have no idea, but it took Level 32 Barbarian Yoshichan 12 hours and 29 minutes to beat Blizzard's freshly released game. This NeoGAF post (thanks Eurogamer) shows off a final shot of the Barbarian character's stats.

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Prototype 2 Developers Ride for Cancer Research Charity

May 3, 2012

Prototype 2 creators Radical Entertainment is working with the BC Cancer Foundation to raise money for the fight against cancer as part of the Ride to Conquer Cancer event. The team taking part in the Ride to Conquer Cancer, Radical Riders, hopes to raise $50,000 in donations to support the organization and to further research against the disease. Prototype 2 producer Jon Lim and lead animator Gerald Sombilonare are both taking part in the charity ride.

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Super Podcast Action Committee - Episode 0

April 30, 2012

Andrew Eisen, E. Zachary Knight, and I have been toying with the idea of doing a podcast for quite some time, and after much discussion, consternation, and a couple of dry runs with the process of recording and editing one, we've finally come up with our first episode. We're calling it the "Super Podcast Action Committee," mainly because we like the idea of being part of a Super PAC, but without all the red tape and influence peddling.

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Game Developers Offer Aid to Former THQ Employees via Twitter

March 30, 2012

Yesterday we reported that THQ would shift the focus of Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online to an offline game, and as a result, would lay off 118 employees from its Relic and Vigil Games studios. While that was horrible news, developers have reached out to those displaced workers to offer them jobs in every corner of the country via Twitter.

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Raspberry Pi Running a ZX Spectrum Emulator

March 30, 2012

While many of us wait to get our hands on Raspberry Pi - the tiny $25 - $35 computer - one person that got his hands on it has used it to create a ZX Spectrum emulator. Andy Taylor (the guy responsible for the UK Computing Museum) has ported Fuze, an emulator for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, to Raspberry Pi and has put a video of it running on YouTube.

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Jennifer Ann Group's 'Life. Love. Game Design Challenge' Accepting Entries

March 28, 2012

The fifth annual Life. Love. Game Design Challenge is officially underway and entries are now being accepted. The game design contest was created by Jennifer Ann’s Group with the goal of promoting games that deliver awareness on the dangers of teen dating violence. This topic is particularly important to the group's founder, Drew Crecente, who lost his daughter.

Minecraft: 25 Million Downloads, $80 Million in Revenue

March 26, 2012

Mojang's ultra popular sandbox action building game, Minecraft has been downloaded 25 million times. Of those downloads, about 5 million were eventually converted to the full registered game, according to a report in The Financial Times. Through game sales and merchandising developer Mojang has managed to rake in $80 million. That's pretty impressive for a privately held company.

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Brian Fargo: Kick it Forward

March 21, 2012

A fresh update to the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter page from InXile front man Brian Fargo details what can be possible and what the company won't be doing no matter how much money they manage to raise. First the one thing Fargo says that they won't do (or have no plans of doing) is creating console versions of Wasteland 2.

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Activision CEO: American Companies Should Do More for Jobless Veterans

March 21, 2012

In an editorial on Huffington Post, Activision Blizzard CEO (and co-chairmen of the company's charity, The Call of Duty Endowment), says that American corporations are not doing enough to help veterans returning home from two wars only to find a job market that doesn't want to hire them. This new battle at home, as Kotick calls it, puts veterans in a higher bracket of unemployment than the national average.

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Dan Houser Buys Truman Capote's Brooklyn Estate

March 21, 2012

How fitting, then, that the Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser is the proud new owner of the Brooklyn Heights mansion at 70 Willow Street where Truman Capote once laid his weary head after a long night of socializing with New York City's who's who. The house that once belonged to the author of the gritty true crime bestseller In Cold Blood sold for $12.5 million according to city records obtained by The New York Observer. It was also apparently the most expensive real estate purchase in Brooklyn history.

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Wasteland 2 Fully Funded, Hits $1 Million Milestone

March 15, 2012

While I’m not going to make a habit of posting a news story every time the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter hits another milestone, it's important to pass along news that the game has been fully funded, which means it will actually be made and someday you'll be able to play it. InXile had asked via its Kickstarter appeal for $900,000. Just two days after launching the campaign they have managed to raise $1,044,997 from 18,695 backers.

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Homeless Man Crashes GDC Lollipop Chainsaw Press Event

March 8, 2012

A homeless man managed to slip into the Warner Bros. Lollipop Chainsaw press party in a San Francisco night club last night. According to an unnamed source speaking to Computer and Video Games, the homeless man managed to slip into the event with a gaggle of journalists who were there to interview Lollipop Chainsaw and No More Heroes creator Suda 51.

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Markus Persson Shares $3 Million in Minecraft Dividends with Co-Workers

March 2, 2012

Mojang front man and Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson announced via Twitter that he has shared $3 million dollars in dividends with the rest of his team at the company. The money comes from sales of Minecraft in the last fiscal year.

"Before tax, my dividends from Mojang for 2011 was about three million dollars. I chose to distribute that to the other employees," he tweeted.

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Last Call: Nubuwo Debut Bundle Kickstarter Needs You

March 1, 2012

Game audio news web site NUBUWO is making a last minute appeal for help it reach its final funding goal of $12,000 before 2:00 am ET.

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OnLive Offers Free Access to IGF 2012 Nominee Demos

February 28, 2012

OnLive is hosting free demos beginning this week (and running until March 11) that showcase the work of all of the Independent Games Festival nominees via Facebook. The Indie Showcase will run until March 11 and includes 16 games: Atom Zombie Smasher, Be Good, Dear Esther, Dustforce, English Country Tune, Frozen Synapse, FTL, Lume, Nitronic Rush, Once Upon a Spacetime, POP, SpaceChem, To The Moon, Toren, and Way.

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A Reddit Experiment in Crowd-Sourced Legislation

February 22, 2012

The Reddit community has been at the forefront of protesting against laws that seek to undermine a free Internet such as SOPA, PIPA and ACTA. Now a group of Reddit users are drafting legislation. For reals. 

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CCP Rakes in $66 Million in 2011

February 22, 2012

You wouldn't know it at first glance, but EVE Online creator CCP Games is a money making machine. According to an Industry Gamers report, the company managed to rake in $66 million in 2011 - we assume - solely from its space-themed massively multiplayer online game EVE Online. The company, which is based in Iceland and is privately owned and operated, did not disclose details on its earnings.

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The Verge’s Vox Games is Open for Business

February 21, 2012

Vox Games has launched over at The Verge, offering what can best be described as well-crafted and thoughtful long-form journalism. The gaming hub features top talent from such publications as Joystiq, Kotaku, The Escapist, and more.

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D.I.C.E. 2012 Indie Game Challenge Winners Announced

February 13, 2012

The grand prize winner of DICE's 2012 Indie Game Challenge is Closure, a puzzle-platformer developed by Eyebrow Interactive that lets players manipulate light and shadow. The game's developers took home a $100,000 Grand Prize. Puzzle-platformer The Bridge and procedurally-generated musical shooter Symphony won two awards each. Nitronic Rush won the Gamers Choice award, an award chosen by fans.

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ZippyDSMleeSomething I did by hand on my convertiable laptop, http://zippydsmlee.deviantart.com/art/Cotlop-zelda-unfinished-sketch-WIP-finish-373937163 forgot if I posted it befor.06/19/2013 - 7:44pm
ConsterAlso, I guess The War Z changed its name so they can scam some more people?06/19/2013 - 7:44pm
ConsterAE: when even HuffPo makes the same joke, it's not something you want to take credit for. :P06/19/2013 - 7:43pm
Andrew EisenHey look! The War Z changed its name to Infestation: Survivor Stories. http://infestationmmo.com/06/19/2013 - 7:23pm
Andrew EisenYou're going to have a lot of company in prison, RedMage. Most of the internet has stolen MY joke. Bastards!06/19/2013 - 7:06pm
RedMageThe cover art thing points to an industry trend of only wanting to appeal to teen boys despite the talk of "broadening the appealz"06/19/2013 - 6:17pm
RedMageI'd like to turn myself in for unintentional theft of a joke. Ignorance of the law is no excuse :o06/19/2013 - 6:17pm
Andrew EisenRemember the fight to get Last of Us's Ellie on the game cover? Check this out: http://cheezburger.com/758618624006/19/2013 - 6:12pm
Andrew EisenRedMage - Thief! You stole my joke! You're a horrible, loathesome person! Or you simply had the same idea and didn't read my earlier shout!06/19/2013 - 5:35pm
RedMageMaybe they're going to rename it the Xbox 18006/19/2013 - 5:26pm
IanCBet EA are pissed.06/19/2013 - 5:17pm
Andrew EisenAh, James is just a little quicker on the keyboard than I!06/19/2013 - 5:07pm
Craig R.Too little, too late.06/19/2013 - 4:52pm
DorthLousPWAHAHAHAH, the MS spinning sound woke me up :)06/19/2013 - 4:27pm
Andrew EisenMicrosoft's new console shall now be known as the Xbox One-Eighty.06/19/2013 - 4:17pm
Andrew EisenI imagine we were typing our respective shouts at the same time.06/19/2013 - 4:14pm
MaskedPixelanteSo Andrew... is there going to be a new poll now? I mean, the one about the XBO DRM is kinda no longer relevant.06/19/2013 - 4:13pm
Andrew EisenIn light of Xbox One's furious backpeddling on its DRM policies, I'm closing the poll for now. I'll probably write a new one later today or tomorrow.06/19/2013 - 4:11pm
IanCFound three people whining about this so far. Saying that its because of cheapasses and that its going to be horrible online now. W T and indeed F.06/19/2013 - 4:09pm
Andrew EisenTechnogeek - I agree but: "After a one-time system set-up with a new Xbox One, you can play any disc based game without ever connecting online again." Why do I need to connect online to set up a system I'm not going to use online?06/19/2013 - 4:07pm
 

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