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YouTube specialists Yogscast will manage and produce Xbox’s official UK channel – Xbox On. Xbox On was previously produced by Attention Seekers and boasts 143,000 subscribers. It will relaunch later this month, headed up by Official Xbox Magazine’s Matt Castle, current presenter BennyCentral and Yogscast’s head of production Adrian Ruiz-Langan. …
Read More »Yogscast teams up with toys-to-life Kickstarter Fabulous Beasts
YouTube sensation The Yogscast and indie studio Sensible Object have partnered up for a special edition of its toys-to-life title Fabulous Beasts. This version of the Kickstarter title comes with an exclusive ‘LalanaLion Artefect’, described as a proud lion with the familiar face of [Yogscast’s] Duncan Jones”. Want to know …
Read More »Lights, camera, action: IGN, GameSpot, Eurogamer, Yogscast and Videogamer on their approaches to video
Every major games media firm is investing serious money in video as the YouTube generation takes over. What has your approach to video content been? Chris Beaumont, GameSpot UK: Our approach is for the video team to lead video.That sounds glib, but a lot of sites have tried to integrate …
Read More »LGC 14: We are not the games media, says Yogscast
Yogscast says comparing it to the games media is a ‘category error’. Rich Keith, GM of the hit video network and speaking today at London Games Conference, says Yogscast and other video stars – such as PewDiePie – are not the games media. They are far more powerful than that …
Read More »COUNTDOWN TO LGC: Speaker FAQ – Rich Keith, Yogscast
This year’s London Games Conference on November 19th will have a number of high profile speakers from around the games industry sharing their knowledge. Today Yogscast boss Rich Keith tells MCV about the firm’s audience and how the shift from written words to video has affected the game media. For …
Read More »Next week’s London Games Conference: Final schedule adds Facebook, Google and Yogscast
Three online giants have been added to the London Games Conference schedule. Next week’s central London day-long conference on games marketing has added Facebook, Google and Yogscast to an already-impressive line-up that includes Buzzfeed, IGN, Curse, Gamer Network, PlayStation, Parker Consulting, Respondez and Green Man Gaming. The full schedule can …
Read More »Humble Bundle teams up with YogsCast for curated storefront
Hot on the heels of curated lists on the Steam store, Humble Bundle has followed suit with a venture of its own. It is debuting the feature with a list from YouTube network YogsCast. The media organisation chooses which games appear on its storefront and in turn receives a five …
Read More »Yogscast launches official iOS app
Maker Studios has launched a new iOS app dedicated to the Yogscast network. It follows the release of an app dedicated to Maker’s YouTube poster boy PewDiePie earlier this month. This new app is built in much the same way, offering quick access to the channel’s content as well as …
Read More »Yogscast not ready to account for alleged $150k Winterkewl payment
An alleged payment of $150k from Yogventures developer Winterkewl to Yogscast remains unaccounted for. Developer Kris Vale said in a Kickstarter update post that his studio prior to the game’s cancellation agreed that $150,000 would be transferred to the Yogscast with the understanding that they would use that money exclusively …
Read More »Winterkewl details Yogventures’ demise
Lead developer at Winterkewl Kris Vale has attempted to explain the chain of events that led to last week’s termination of Yogventures. The Yogscast-themed adventure title was successfully Kickstarted to the tune of $570k in 2012 but was last week abandoned, with the vague promise that backers will be compensated …
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