Wild Games Studio

Wild Games Studio is a former Canadian video game developer, located in Mascouche. The company was founded in 2010 by Stephane Woods.
In 2013, the company attracted negative publicity after they attempted to use copyright for censorship, briefly taking down a negative YouTube review by TotalBiscuit of one of their titles, Day One: Garry's Incident. Wild Games stated that they did so because they never agreed to allow him to monetize the video. As other harsh reviews had not been flagged by the company, gamers, gaming websites, and commentators believed TotalBiscuit's YouTube fame had been the sole reason for flagging it.
Games
*Dungeon Gate (2012)
*Sift Heads
*Feed Us
*Gravinaytor
*Day One: Garry's Incident (2013)
*Dysan the Shapeshifter (2014)
Controversy
On 18 October 2013, Wild Games Studio made a copyright claim against YouTube critic TotalBiscuit in an attempt to remove his video review of the game Day One: Garry's Incident, titled "WTF Is... Day One Garry's Incident?", which was heavily critical of the game. Their copyright claim was briefly successful and the video was removed from YouTube. Wild Games stated they were protecting their copyright "because Total Biscuit has no right to make advertising revenues with our license". Response to Wild Games action was highly critical, with one professional reviewer stating "it’s implicit that some kind of monetization process is set up for professional or even semi-professional sites and channels". No other reviews residing on monetized websites were known to be issued with similar copyright takedown notices by the company.
TotalBiscuit issued a response video, reaching 2 million views in 3 days, in which he revealed other "shady" practices by Wild Games Studio including "astroturfing reviews" and a falsified Kickstarter campaign. On 21 October 2013, Wild Games Studio apologized for the controversy and revoked the copyright complaint. However, the backlash from gamers, gaming websites, and commentators had already begun. By November 2013, over 1400 reviewers had submitted their user scores to the Metacritic website, where the game received a score of 0.5/10, the lowest Metacritic score of any PC game in the site's history. The coverage of the studio's attempt to cover up the bad review was described as an example of the Streisand effect.<ref name="tdCopyCensor"/>

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