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UK Games Industry To Finally Restrict Loot Box Access
We all hate lootboxes and all wish the predatory micro-transactions would go away and leave gaming for good. Today those wishes have gotten closer to being answered with the UK Games Industry revealing it’s plans to restrict access to loot boxes for children. New Loot Box Restrictions in The UK…
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Discord Introduces More Monetization Options For Creators
Discord is introducing several tools to help creators earn money through their servers building upon the Server Subscriptions introduced back in December. Server Subscriptions Media Channels In a Blog Post from Derek Yang, Discord revealed more additions to its server subscription feature, allowing fans to subscribe to their favourite content…
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Diablo Immortal Review Bombed on Metacritic – Blizzard’s Lowest Rating Ever!
Released last week on both PC and mobile devices, on the surface of things, Diablo Immortal is a surprisingly decent game. It looks good, plays well, and seems to represent itself as a surprisingly decent addition to the franchise. – Below the surface, however, things get significantly problematic. It’s no…
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Nintendo Issues YouTube Guidelines To Help Content Creators
Nintendo Issues YouTube Guidelines To Help Content Creators There have been very long-standing difficulties between YouTube content creators and Nintendo. In a nutshell, Nintendo is exceptionally protective of their IP’s on the video hosting site. As such they regularly issue DMCA notifications to people who sometimes simply want to play and/or…
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Demonetisation Day Lands On YouTube With Protests
Demonetisation Day Lands on YouTube Back in January, YouTube, again, announced major changes to how monetization works on their website. Applying some quite significant changes, the result meant that thousands of low-profile YouTubers would lose what little income they did receive. Allowing for a 30 day warning period, the demonetisation day…
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YouTube Look To Work With Low-End YouTube Channels To Boost Revenue
YouTube Attempts To Appease Low-End Channels If you’re trying to make a living at YouTube, unless you are already established, it can be difficult work. For those that did make, it should point out that it didn’t (at least for the majority) happen overnight, but now they’re there, as long…
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YouTube Change Monetization Guidelines Again
YouTube Monetization Guidelines It’s a move that was bound to annoy the community, but YouTube has decided again to shift the goalposts again in regards to the monetization process of videos. The new changes, however, may see a significant number of low-level YouTube content creators completely expunged from all potential…
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Star Citizen Players Can Buy Virtual Plots of Land for £96
Star Citizen is an extremely ambitious game and as such, it does a lot of things which other games do not. Unlike other titles which make money off lootboxes, Star Citizen offers players the ability to buy space ships. Depending on the size it can range from a few hundred…
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CD Projekt Red: “No Bullshit…We Leave Greed to Others”
With the gaming climate like it is today, fans were a bit rattled when CD Projekt Red CEO Adam Kicinski said they are “interested in Cyberpunk (2077) being commercially more significant” in an interview with Strefa Inwestorow. Some fans took this to mean they are going to be much more…
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Gearbox CEO Denounces “Predatory Monetization” Schemes in Games
Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford is not shy about expressing his feelings, especially on Twitter. This time however, he treads a fine line between criticizing the current lootbox debate and defending DLCs. Pitchford tweeted out 12 separate threads, taking advantage of Twitter’s recent 280 character expansion, to talk about “predatory monetization…
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Facebook Considering Monetization of Posts Using “Tip Jars”
A Facebook user survey distributed this week has shown the social media giant is looking at ways for users to be able to profit from their posts according to The Verge. Some of the features being considered that would allow for the monetization of posts or the ability to promote…
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YouTube Launching Streaming Music Service, Ad-free Video Subscription a Possibility
Are you ready for YouTube’s music streaming service? The cats been let out of the bag by YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki during a recent interview. Wojcicki told re/code that the company had been working on the music streaming service for quite some time, but the launch of the platform won’t be ready…
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Android Devices Get Support For Amazon Coins
The Amazon Coins payment option was introduced in May last year, but ever since it remained somewhat a currency used on Kindle Fire tablets. The virtual currency was designed as a simple method of paying for your goods and better monetization for developers. If you liked the payment method, them…
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