Posts by Karolina
WDC gaming partners celebrate World Oceans Day with a whale of a Steam sale
To celebrate World Oceans Day this year we are thrilled to announce our biggest ever charity Steam sale. With an amazing collection of over 40 exciting games including ABZU, I Am Fish, Frostpunk, Sunless Sea, In Other Waters and many more, our fantastic games partners are joining forces with us to stand up for the…
Read MoreThe Yogscast gives a whale-sized donation to WDC
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…
Read MoreWDC handed ‘life raft’ donation
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…
Read MoreUPDATE – A (virtual) dolphin experience like no other
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…
Read MoreCurve Digital and Humble Bundle make a ‘supply drop’ in the form of a new camera for OrcaLab
We’d like to say a huge thank you to video games publisher, and WDC partner, Curve Digital and the incredible Humble Bundle community for supporting us with their latest ‘Supply Drop’ games bundle. The special sale on Humble Bundle raised over $3,700 for WDC which has now been matched by amazing WDC supporters. With the…
Read MoreThe Yogscast help WDC ‘save a species’
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…
Read MoreHow the games industry helped save the whales
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…
Read MoreA (virtual) dolphin experience like no other
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…
Read MoreBuild a better future for whales and dolphins with this new Humble Bundle
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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