Felix Kjellberg, better known by his online alias PewDiePie, earned 63 million SEK (around $7.5 million) in 2014, according to financial documents.
According to Swedish newspaper .
He currently has 37 million subscribers and generates over $4 million in ad sales per year.
In 2014, Kjellberg said his videos, in some ways, are designed to encourage developers to create games that are not only fun to play, but to also fun for others to watch.
"It's cool to have this kind of influence, but at the same time it's kind of scary," Kjellberg said.
According to Kjellberg, the original name for his YouTube account was PewDie ("pew" for the sound of a laser gun and "die" for death), but after he lost his account password he had to come up with a new name, so he added "Pie" to it.
He also said his popularity on YouTube is somewhat unsettling: "I'm so central to YouTube now, and that puts me in the spotlight and raises a lot of questions like 'Why is he so big?'" Kjellberg said. "I'd much rather prefer to have something like 5 million subscribers."
Acclaimed visual novel series Zero Escape is set for a third entry, publisher Aksys Games has announced.
Revealed during the Aksys Games Panel at Anime Expo in LA, Zero Escape 3 will be released in 2016, and takes place on Mars. More specifically, the game is set on a test facility designed on Mars designed to evaluate the viability of establishing a colony on the planet.
At the centre of it all is a group of people, whose mental state and their personal dynamics, will be one of the driving forces behind the narrative.
Zero Escape 3, which does not have a subtitle yet, will once again be developed by Chunsoft, with writer and director Kotaro Uchikoshi returning for the project.
The game is scheduled for release on we said "there aren't many [games] that leave you contemplating and debating their story and worldviews long after the final set of credits has rolled ... Virtue's Last Reward takes its place proudly among this crop of games."
Sega of America has registered domains for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 3, sparking speculation that a sequel to its acclaimed real-time strategy series may be on the way.
Minecon 2015 happened, and we got the reveal of Telltale Games' episodic adventure game: Minecraft: Story Mode, and the announcement of Minecraft for Windows 10!
This week Europe gets F1 2015, Xbox One owners get SMITE while PS4 owners get Pneuma and Skullgirls 2nd Encore. The Red Solstice comes out of early access and Rocket League explodes its way into our hearts.
Bungie has published a list of everything included in that "we plan to prove that The Taken King is more than DLC--it’s a game."
A list of content included in the DLC, as written by Bungie, is pasted below.
New story missions and an array of sidequests that conspire to tell the story of our battle to defend our Solar System against Oryx and his Taken army
New narrative driven by cinematic cutscenes starring an engaging cast of characters
New Exotic Weapons, Exotic Armor, and Exotic Questlines
The Dreadnaught, a full new destination, with unique secrets, rituals, and treasures to uncover
A new breed of enemy combatants, The Taken, armed with new abilities and weapons
An increased Level Cap, and new ways for your Guardian to grow more powerful
The most substantial injection of new, unique, and redesigned weapons, armor, and talents to date
New subclasses with all new Supers and abilities
New cooperative Strikes with unique and dynamic new Boss battles
Redesigned and reimagined Strikes – Dust Palace, Undying Mind, and Cerberus Vae III – are now overrun by the Taken
New Crucible multiplayer maps with new Crucible modes, including the previously revealed Rift and Mayhem
And, of course, last but not least, our biggest six-player Raid yet.
While these promises regarding content have been made now, Bungie says in the weeks ahead it will also discus "a range of topics that we know are important to you, including weapon rebalancing, economy improvements, an overhauled quest experience, bounty enhancements, faction allegiances, end game content, and more."
"for months", however these claims--purportedly from internal QA employees--are not proven.
Set prior to the events in the first game in Rocksteady's Batman trilogy, this add-on will place Batgirl in a new location with multiple missions, side quests, and secrets. Featured within the game is a new hacking feature, as well as Dual Play functionality with Robin.
The sudden and unexplained dismissal of a popular Reddit employee has prompted a blackout across the sprawling discussion board website.
Popular subreddit pages, such as r/Gaming, r/IAmA, r/funny, r/books, r/science, r/music, and r/history, have all been taken private by their moderators in a deliberate message of solidarity to the site's management.
Most of Reddit's biggest message boards have been taken private, effectively shutting them down
Game-specific subreddits, such as those for on Reddit, the chain of blackouts began with the one that Victoria moderated, r/IAmA. Other moderators of the famous Q&A page, which has been used by the likes of Barack Obama and Sean Bean, said that Victoria's dismissal was not communicated properly.
A notice on the site explains: "The mods of /r/IAmA had just found out that without prior warning, /u/chooter, or Victoria, had been released from her position at Reddit. They felt that they, along with the other subreddits that host AMAs, should have been warned beforehand, if only so that they could have someone or something in place to handle the transition. /u/karmanaut went on to say that many of the mods affected by this do not believe that the admins understand how heavily /u/chooter was relied upon to allow AMAs to go smoothly."
As of June, Reddit was said to have amassed 36 million user accounts.
An extraordinarily rare prototype of the SNES-CD console, which was created as part of a failed partnership between Nintendo and Sony some 25 years ago, has been discovered.
Never-before-seen images offer the first ever close-ups of the machine, now yellowed with age, which combines the form factor of the SNES along with the branding of PlayStation.
The console is so rare that its specific design features, such as a horizontal volume slider at the front and an assortment of outputs at the back, were not public knowledge. There are several other known prototypes of the SNES-CD, each with different variations on its design, which likely means that the version pictured below is the only in existence.
Click on the thumbnails below to view the images in full-screen. He says that he will try to find the power supply for the prototype and boot the system up for the first time.
Danny has a problem with Destiny. He doesn't think it's a bad game, but it's development surfaces some troubling ethical questions about the role of game design in keeping players addicted. Especially when expensive DLC is involved.
Mad Catz, the prominent peripherals company that has been designing arcade sticks and other esoteric accessories since 1989, could soon face the prospect of closure if its income does not increase significantly.
In late June, the corporation offered a warning to investors, explaining that it had failed to meet a monthly target that had been implemented as a failsafe by its credit lender, Wells Fargo.
Because Mad Catz was unable to generate as much money as Wells Fargo had asked, the bank was given the option to call in its loan. Had this occurred, Mad Catz may not have been able to continue as a going concern.
However, on June 23, Well Fargo waived Mad Catz' violation, and entered into a new agreement with the corporation that will carry on until July 31, 2016.
But Mad Catz, which has been losing money for three years straight since 2011, said it requires "significant contributions from anticipated sales of products related to the Rock Band 4 video game."
Mad Catz is co-publishing the Harmonix-developed title. The company also manufactures arcade boards for , Mad Catz claims that it has overcome a major hurdle by securing a new line of credit. Initially the company will be loaned $20 million, which could increase to $35 million from September in order to ship Rock Band 4.
Karen McGinnis, chief financial officer at the company, claimed that part of the reason it needed to issue a credit warning was because of the necessity to use unequivocal language in financial documents. She claims that the reality of the situation is far more nuanced and positive.
For the financial year that ended in March 2015, Mad Catz posted a net income of $4.7 million. Representatives for the corporation were unavailable at the time of going to press.
Electronic Arts is removing a swarm of online videos revealing key gameplay details of its biggest game of the year, with GameSpot, DICE general manager Patrick Bach discussed the pressure of fan expectations placed on the studio.
"You want Battlefront to be as good as the films, which means that if we don't do that, players will be very upset. They will be very clear about that fact," he said.
Minecon 2015 happened, and we got the reveal of Telltale Games' episodic adventure game: Minecraft: Story Mode, and the announcement of Minecraft for Windows 10!
This week Europe gets F1 2015, Xbox One owners get SMITE while PS4 owners get Pneuma and Skullgirls 2nd Encore. The Red Solstice comes out of early access and Rocket League explodes its way into our hearts.
GameSpot hooks up with Games Done Quick and Speedrunner Vulajin attempts to beat Ori and the Blind Forest in under 50 minutes.
Jake and Mary create an explosive spectacle in Fireworks Simulator to celebrate the Fourth of July!
Danny has a problem with Destiny. He doesn't think it's a bad game, but it's development surfaces some troubling ethical questions about the role of game design in keeping players addicted. Especially when expensive DLC is involved.
