The Yogscast gives a whale-sized donation to WDC

Breaching whale at sunset

We are so thrilled to start off the New Year with some great news for whales and dolphins, thanks to Bristol-based gaming content creators and long-term WDC supporters, The Yogscast. A whopping £264,000 was raised for WDC through Yogscast’s Jingle Jam, an annual charity live-streaming event that takes place in December on the streaming platform Twitch. Throughout…

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WDC handed ‘life raft’ donation

Raft game screenshot of a raft and two raft towers.

Axolot Games and Redbeet Interactive have made an incredible donation to WDC of $100,000 from their Steam weekend sale featuring ocean survival game RAFT. The Steam Weekend Deal saw 15% of the net developer profits going directly to WDC, supporting our work across the globe to protect whales and dolphins from the many threats they…

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UPDATE – A (virtual) dolphin experience like no other

Whale artwork

Last year, we announced our exciting collaboration with media production company Cyan Planet, on the development and production of an upcoming immersive Virtual Reality (VR) experience – How is the Water. How is the Water is a Virtual Reality video game and the ultimate ocean experience. It tells the story of the ocean through the eyes of a…

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The Yogscast help WDC ‘save a species’

Wildlife Conservation Society

We are delighted to start off the new year with some great news for whales and dolphins – our urgent project to save the Atlantic humpback dolphin from extinction has been funded! And it’s all thanks to Bristol-based gaming content creators and long-term WDC supporters, The Yogscast. An amazing £200k was raised through Yogscast’s Jingle Jam, an annual charity…

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How the games industry helped save the whales

LG and LW in bay week 1 the SLT Beluga Whale Sanctuary

2020 saw a huge milestone for WDC and our partners, The SEA LIFE Trust, when beluga whales Little White and Little Grey were able to feel the salt water of their new ocean home for the first time. WDC’s partners in the games industry rallied to help make this project a reality, and to ensure that SEA LIFE TRUST…

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A (virtual) dolphin experience like no other

Breaching dolphin

We are pleased to announce a collaboration with media production company, Cyan Planet to produce a fin-tastic new Virtual Reality (VR) experience called How is the Water. How is the Water is a virtual reality adventure game where you become the dolphin. A story of the ocean, told intimately through a dolphin’s eyes, which takes players…

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Build a better future for whales and dolphins with this new Humble Bundle

Orcas were seen swimming freely in Vancouver during the city's lockdown earlier this year. Photo by Cetacea Lab

WDC is delighted to announce that we’ll be joining forces with charities Action Against Hunger (AAH) and World Land Trust (WLT) with Humble Bundle’s Better Futures game bundle. The global pandemic and lockdown has brought together individuals, families and communities.  Alongside the challenges, people have experienced an upside too, with cleaner air, wildlife reappearing in our towns and waterways and…

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