Following PewDiePie’s latest controversy, Firewatch developer Campo Santo began to distance itself from the entertainer by filing a DMCA takedown notice to all of his content regarding the game. The takedown notice resulted in all Firewatch content disappearing from the YouTube star’s channel, which has prompted those against the developer’s …
Read More »PewDiePie issues an apology for racial remark
Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg landed himself in hot water again this week after shouting a racial slur live on stream, prompting action from developers to issue DMCA takedowns in a bid to disassociate themselves. Inevitably, PewDiePie has issued an apology addressing the most recent matter, making no excuse or defence for …
Read More »Firewatch dev plans to DMCA PewDiePie videos following recent racial slur
Sean Vanaman, the lead developer behind Firewatch, has revealed his plans to issue DMCA Takedown notices against PewDiePie's videos following a new controversy surrounding the YouTuber. Going forward, Vanaman says the studio plans to take down any PewDiePie video featuring a Campo Santo game after the video maker blurted out …
Read More »Pewdiepie responds to media criticism, fellow Youtuber support
Felix Kjellberg, most commonly known as the Youtuber, Pewdiepie, has released an even pitched, sober response to the lambasting he received in the media over the past week. In it he airs his side of the story and highlights some of the scare mongering and click-baiting that traditional media sources …
Read More »YouTube cancels PewDiePie’s YouTube Red series, drops preferred advertising status
Earlier this morning we learned that Disney-owned YouTube MCN ‘Maker Studios' had dropped PewDiePie, the biggest channel on the platform due to some recent controversy surrounding some of the humor he has presented in recent videos. Since then, YouTube has given a statement of its own, cancelling the second season of …
Read More »Disney, Maker Studios dropped Pewdiepie over ‘offensive’ jokes
Felix “Pewdiepie” Kjellberg, by far the most subscribed Youtuber in the world, has lost the backing of the Disney owned Maker Studios, over what has been termed offensive jokes in some of his recent videos. In a trial of the service platform, Fiverr, he paid to have a pair of …
Read More »PewDiePie launches game dev, promo firm with other Youtubers
Felix Kjelberg, more famously known as the most popular Youtuber Pewdiepie, is launching a new promotional firm and production company in one, called Revelmode. He's bringing some friends with him too, signing on other big Youtubers like Mark “Markiplier” Fishbach, Sean “JackSepticEye” McLoughlin and Emma Blackery. The idea behind Revelmode …
Read More »Pewdiepie is getting a reality show on Youtube Red
With the launch of Youtube's subscription service, Youtube Red taking place next week, it's no surprise that the streaming firm is pulling out all of the stops to promote it. Indeed, it's even easier to understand why the site's most subscribed content creator, Felix “Pewdiepie” Kjellberg is being pushed front and …
Read More »PewDiePie made £4.8 million last year
We already knew that PewDiePie was a rich man, after all, he did make £2.6 million throughout 2013 by being the biggest channel on YouTube. However, now we have learned that over the past year he has become extra rich, with his earnings nearly doubling throughout 2014. PewDiePie/Felix Kjellberg, has …
Read More »PewDiePie will guest star on South Park tomorrow night
South Park has been tackling gaming a lot this season, we've had an episode on the Oculus Rift, another on free to play mobile games and now the trend is continuing, with a new episode focusing on YouTube game commentary, featuring the most popular gamer on YouTube, PewDiePie. The episode …
Read More »PewDiePie could leave Maker Studios, start own Youtube network
PewDiePie, perhaps the world's most well known and certainly the most well subscribed Youtuber and Let's Player, is currently signed to the Disney owned, Maker Studios, in a deal that's likely worth a lot of money to the Swedish born gamer. However his contract with the promotional company is up …
Read More »PewDiePie closes Youtube comments for good
The world's most subscribed Youtuber, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg, has announced that he will no longer be allowing Youtube comments on any of his videos. He will however be looking to other avenues for back and forth discussion with the “bros,” through Twitter, Facebook and Reddit. The reasoning behind the move is …
Read More »Pewdiepie has an iOS app now
If you didn't think accessing the videos of the world's most subscribed Youtuber Pewdiepie was easy enough before, now you can do so through his official iPhone app, which gives you access to his videos and lets you select your favourites in a pseudo-bro playlist. Developed in conjunction with Maker …
Read More »PewDiePie is earning over $4 million a year
Like him or not boys and girls, Youtube's most subscribed channel, beating out international musicians, tutorials on how to put on makeup and even those Epic Rap Battle guys, PewDiePie, is pulling in over $4 million a year with his let's plays, tutorials and montages. As many fans as PewDiePie …
Read More »Disney to buy PewDiePie network for $500 million
Maker Studios is one of Youtube's biggest networks of collaborators and video makers, featuring names like PewDiePie, Epic Rap Battles of History and Kassem G, but now it could get even larger, as Disney has agreed to purchase it for a whopping $500 (£303) million. That may not be all …
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