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Extra Life 2014 - 5 Ways To Show Us Your Support

T-4 days until Extra Life, the annual 24 hour gaming marathon for charity. We at Alchemic Dream want to do our part to support this nobel cause. Our team goal is to raise as much as we can for our local children's hospitals and the Children's Miracle Network, whilst doing the thing that we love: gaming!

Sounds like fun? Join us before October 25th!

If you can't participate in the marathon, there are other ways to be involved:

Watch the livestreams of our participants

Participate in their online chats

Donate to your participant of choice

Share this post about the marathon

Tell your friends and family

Our team member Sam - from Spain - will thank you for your donation in his very own way:

For $1, Sam will salute you in his livestream

For $5, he will salute you and let you choose the next path or item

For $10, you decide what game he will play for the next hour

For $20, you'll get all that plus a copy of his last music track

For $50, Sam will wear a #YOLO hat during the entire day

We are very glad to have the following gamers on board as well:

Sophie from Canada, aka EaderBreca

Madeleine from Canada

Catherine from Canada

Anthony from Canada

Please be sure you take the time to raise awareness about this marathon, so that we as the gaming community can actually help save lives, and be real heroes.

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Kicking off Customer Service Week, October 6 - 10, 2014

We honor the people who support customers with the highest degree of care and who are maniacally devoted to solving customer issues at all times.

We truly appreciate the individuals answering phone calls, replying to tickets and emails, staying available in chat rooms, discussing in forums and on social networks, compiling and answering FAQs and writing down tips and "How To" articles in any language of the world.

But this week we want to explicitely share with the world that we love what you do! You are a tireless bunch, and we couldn't do it without you!

Curious what Alchemic Dream's Customer Care Agents do in an average week?

Alchemic Dream's "Rule Book":

Happy Customer Service Week!

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Happy International Translation Day! THANK YOU to all translators and proof-readers who help to create awesome gaming experiences each day!

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What will you find in the Black Desert? Find out now!

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We had the opportunity to get a demonstration of Shadowrun Online, a strategic and tactical game that has a lot of potential. Check it out!

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Amazon—not Google—reportedly buying Twitch for $1 billion

3 months after Google/Twitch rumors, another suitor supposedly comes calling.

Do you livestream? Who do you think would be a better partner?

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Fearless Fantasy, a tablet RPG game, has an impressive art style! Adventure on the go! 

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We were so excited to be able to attend Gamescom this year. What was so impressive about the event was the diversity of talent and the sheer number of countries represented. Take a look for yourself!

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We spoke with a member of the Techland team whose working on Dying Light to find out what we can expect from the upcoming 1st person Zombie survival game. Whether it's the single player or the cooperative mode, this game is terrifying!

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We are at Gamescom 2014 in Cologne, Germany for the largest video games convention in Europe. Over 340,000 people are in attendance this year. We had the opportunity to talk to a member of the Hazard Ops team, Lee Dale, about  the impressive variety of options, the enemies you'll see in the game and when we can expect to play Hazard Ops.

Check back on our channel with more interviews, news and previews from one of the biggest gaming conventions of the year!

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It’s a wrap! Looking back on gamescom 2014

The largest trade fair and event highlight for interactive games has come to an end Sunday night – time to look back on four spectacular days with you. And once again gamescom, with this year’s guiding theme “Ready to play - discover new worlds”, proved to be much more than just a simple trade show: it was an incredible event featuring interactive entertainment. And the community was so ...

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We are at Gamescom 2014 in Cologne, Germany for the largest video games convention in Europe. Over 340,000 people are in attendance this year. We had the opportunity to talk to a member of  the Ubisoft team, Creative Director Alex Amancio, about Assassins Creed Unity, the expansive nature of Paris, the 4-player coop, shared experience and how Black Flag's naval missions help lead to a game-wide evolution of mission gameplay and character customization. 

Check back on our channel with more interviews, news and previews from one of the biggest gaming conventions of the year!

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Here are some more photos from our jaunt across the #Gamescom show floor. 

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Here are some pictures from the first few days of Gamescom!

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We are at Gamescom 2014 in Cologne, Germany for the largest video games convention in Europe. Over 340,000 people are in attendance this year. We had the opportunity to talk to a member of  the Monolith team,Lead Game Designer Bob Roberts, about Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, the expansive nature of the series, the Nemesis system and what it's like to worth on a game with the lead writer from Red Dead Redemption. 

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We sat down with  Stan Just from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt team to talk to them about the game and its development. 

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Gamescom 2014: Sony Conference Announcements

We like to put everything in one place for you to easily catch up on all the announcements you may have missed. Here's a recap on Sony's announcements at Gamescom 2014:

Let's start with what you can start with, P.T.

PT, which stands for playable teaser, is actually a teaser experience for Silent Hills, the newly announced horror game from Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro, being developed by Kojima Productions and being published by Konami. This demo is available to PS4 owners right now. Check out this terrifying, talking bag trailer:

Now, for the new titles, there were quite a few. 

The heavenly Sword team is working on a new game (that looks a like Heavenly Sword) called Hellblade.

We also got the first gameplay footage of Bloodborne.

But AAA titles were not taking over the conference, as Sony also had a few surprises up their sleeve including trailers for Volume, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, a new look at Rime and the debut of The Tomorrow Children.

We also were in for a shock as the creator of Rayman, who still works at Ubisoft, debuted a brand new studio and a new game, called Wild.

Wild was very impressive. It's exciting to see something new from such a talented creator, and speaking of talented creators... we finally were introduced to Media Molecule's next game, which turns out to be a rework of Tearaway entitled Tearaway Unfolded. It brings the impressive Vita game to the console, with a few additional features and tweaks to make the game work for the dual shock 4.

It is an exciting time to be a fan of games, and these are just some of the announcements that came out of the Sony Press conference. It is nice to know that the talented teams like Media Molecule and Housemarque are bringing their talents to the PS4 with new experiences for that console. In closing, Gamescom is full of exciting games. 

Let's end with Housemarque's debut trailer for their new game: Alienation.