Minecraft has become a video game phenomenon. Now it seems that the game was one of the most searched terms on YouTube last year. In 2014, Minecraft was the second-most searched term on YouTube in 2014. The game beat out Disney’s hit movie Frozen, and singer-songwriter Beyoncé. In a post on Think With Google titled “Think Gaming Content is Niche? ...
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Youtube offline video viewing now live
Youtube offline video viewing was a feature we’ve been hoping for for a long time now, and it’s finally starting to roll out. Even though it’s only available in a few countries like India, the Philippines and Indonesia. There’s no word on when Youtube offline video viewing will be available across the world, but we’re happy to see the fulfillment ...
Read More »The Last of Us DLC Detailed
The Last of Us is back. Even though Naughty Dog stated that they were done with DLC in May, The Last of Us is receiving new DLC. While the official annoucnement won’t be here until tomorrow, YouTuber SanchoWest has released videos of him playing the game. The Last of Us’ new DLC’s name is yet to be known, but we ...
Read More »The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ‘Downgrade’ Explained
The Witcher 3 has been one of the game causing quite a stir this weekend. With a new trailer now out and about, The Witcher 3 has also been delayed. Its latest trailer has caused quite an uproar, as fans are complain over what appears to be a downgrade in the game. Many PC Gamers are disappointed at what appears ...
Read More »Steam Broadcasting: Competition for Twitch
Steam Broadcasting, now in beta, was announced by Valve today. It is Valve’s hope that the ability to watch friends through the expansive Steam community and game store will claim a large stake of the online game streaming market and provide real competition for Twitch and YouTube. Steam users have been able to watch each other play for a while ...
Read More »YouTube Briefly Suspends Blizzard’s Channel
YouTube shut down one of Blizzard’s YouTube channels for a shocking 40 minute period of time today as the result of alleged copyright violations. Yep, you read that right. The Irvine California based gaming company’s World Championship Series StarCraft YouTube channel was suspended for violating their own copyright by posting content that they actually created. It seems that DCMA takedowns ...
Read More »Activision Removing Call of Duty Exploit Videos
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare players beware, if you upload videos of your gameplay to YouTube you could be subject to a DCMA takedown courtesy of Activision. Activision is targeting YouTube uploads that they deem to be promoting unsavory gaming practices in their Call of Duty franchise. Activision explains their stance in their statement to Eurogamer where they said, “We’re excited ...
Read More »Youtube will allow those with a subscription to watch videos without ads
Unless you’re using some type of third party software to block them, Youtube ads can be very annoying. Youtube is certainly well aware of that and is finally offering us a way of watching videos without the said ads. However, this benefit will not be available for free as interested users must opt in for a paid subscription first. Plans regarding the ...
Read More »Facebook and co will have to automatically send extremists’ data to authorities
I’m sure you’ve heard about James Comey, FBI director, is concerned about how encryption form Apple and Google jeopardize their investigations and how companies like those shouldn’t encrypt data so that government agencies can’t get their hands on them. Apple and Google have responded by saying that data will indeed be available to government agencies, but only if they have ...
Read More »Star Wars Battlefront 3 leaked gameplay shows up on YouTube
This is not the Battlefront you’re looking for At this point, I think we’re all aware developer DICE and publisher Electronic Arts are currently hard-at-work on the next entry in the Battlefront franchise, which will simply be called Star Wars: Battlefront. But before these two, developer Free Radical (now known as Crytek UK) was working on its own sequel to ...
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