Project Awakened, a third person action adventure game, announced a refund of all funds raised in from their crowdfunding campaign which fell short of their goals. In an announcement posted on their web site they explained they were placing their crowdfunding effort on hold; Phosphor Games would like to thank you for your continued support of Project… Read More
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The video game industry has been permanently changed with the advent of crowdfunding. The big name and high dollar success stories continue to roll in. Star Citizen raised over $9 Million by combining a Kickstarter and self crowdfunding campaign. The Kickstarter project acted as a pretail / marketing initiative as well as a fund raising… Read More
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Camelot Unchained is an MMORPG video game made for the PC that is approaching both the end of a Kickstarter campaign and a $2 million goal. If successful it would cement a place on the ever-changing crowdfunding leaderboard as one of the biggest campaigns of all time. It would also become one of the most… Read More
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BattleBlock Theater devs say chaos will keep everything moving forward, studios big and small always face the same hurdles Anyone hoping that a new generation of consoles will bring some stability to the game industry is bound to be disappointed, according to the co-founders of Castle Crashers developer The Behemoth. In an interview with GamesIndustry International,… Read More
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After reaching more than $2 million in crowdfunding on Kickstarter, the Star Citizen developer kept donations open via its Roberts Space Industries website. It now has a pool of $9 million from both sources combined. That’s an increase of $1 million since mid-February. Star Citizen has now achieved all of its stretch goals. Cloud Imperium… Read More
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MERCS Miniatures in Indianapolis, Indiana has a lot to celebrate as the campaign for their new board game ends. The campaign for “MYTH” is set to finish at over $900,000 of funding, completely destroying their original goal of $40,000. UPDATE: The final tally was $924,876 from 5,353 backers A video of the gameplay is below:… Read More
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Chris Roberts’ Star Citizen Kickstarter has raised over $8 million, and fans continue to jump in, despite the game being over a year away from release. “I can make the same game for a fifth of the revenue [of a AAA title], a fifth of the sales, and I can be more profitable, and I… Read More
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GameLaunched, a crowdfunding platform for gaming which launched on March 21st, reported a significant increase in user registration. GameLaunched, is a US based – international crowdfunding website for gaming. It is presently the only US crowdfunding site exclusive to gaming. Gamelaunched successfully launched on March, 21st and has seen it’s user base triple in just… Read More
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After a hugely successful crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, Skullgirl creator LabZero was hit with an unexpected turn of events. PayPal terrified of the possibility of chargebacks had frozen the account fearing the financial risk. Originally this series of events were reported on EventHubs which picked up on the strife on NeoGAF. It appears the concern is… Read More
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Quikfix Holdings (UK), Brigands and Barbarians RPG and Steel Bridge Team (Puerto Rico) Keep them coming. We love to hear about all of your crowdfunding projects. Successful or not we admire each of you that puts for the effort to crowdfund your dream, business or project. Below are some of the recent notes we have… Read More
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Divinity: Original Sin, a role playing game crowdfunding on Kickstarter, has surpassed their $400,000 goal and have set up new stretch goals to keep the momentum and funding going. Reward tiers start at $5 and scale up to $10,000. Divinity was recognized as one of the most promising RPGs of 2013 by RPGWatch. They have… Read More
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Shovel Knight, a multi-platform game, has crowdfunded $311,502 on Kickstarter far surpassing their $75,000 goal. The crowdfunding campaign was supported by 14,749 backers. Shovel Knight is a product of LA based Yacht Club Games. Stretch goals were incorporated into the crowdfunding effort to help boost interest and support for the project. Also – as has… Read More
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It was a small story we ran just before GDC that kind of flew under the radar, so you’d all be forgiven (minus Kris, who authored the thing) for missing that a game just got funded through equity crowdfunding. That is to say, rather than through a Kickstarter model where backers simply receive rewards (or the… Read More
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Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, has surpassed their stated $1 Million goal on Kickstarter by raising just shy of $2 Million via support from over 22,000 backers. This comes soon after the most money raised by a video game was announced as Torment: Tides of Numenera raised over $4 Million surpassing Double Fine Adventure and… Read More
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Most Funded Video Game Ever Crowdfunded on Kickstarter Surpassing the success of Double Fine Adventure, the game Torment: Tides of Numenera crowdfunded a total of $4,188,927 which closed this past weekend. The initial target was $900,000. Over 74,000 backers supported this crowdfunding home run on Kickstarter. The crowdfunding project, operated by InXile entertainment out of… Read More
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