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September 2, 2014 @ 2:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Setting out to be the next big thing on gaming shelves worldwide, UK-based Battle Systems Ltd launched a £21,000 campaign through crowdfunding giant Kickstarter for its new 3D Fantasy Dungeon Terrain over two weeks ago and now has managed to raise close to £86,000 thanks… Read More

September 2, 2014 @ 10:22 am By JD Alois  |  

As we struggle to fire up all cylinders back at the office after a long weekend of transition from late Summer to early Fall, we thought we would share an entertaining video showing “elders” experiencing the Oculus Rift for the very first time.  This video… Read More

August 21, 2014 @ 6:11 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to bring a highly addictive game to toy stores everywhere, Baltimore, MD-based Gnarwhal Studios has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for Slap .45. The new card game is considered a “wild west slap duel” for three to seven players. Slap .45 capture the… Read More

July 25, 2014 @ 7:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Studio MONO is setting out for a funding venture for its video game InSomnia. The video game studio launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter and within 24 hours, the campaign raised well past its $70,000 goal and reached over $92,268 from close to 3,559 backers…. Read More

July 23, 2014 @ 1:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday evening (July 22nd), host of the Daily Show, Jon Stewart, announced the launch of a $10 billion Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to purchase the television network, CNN. During the show, Stewart discussed Rupert Murdoch’s recent business strategy to purchase CNN’s parent company, Time Warner…. Read More

July 22, 2014 @ 8:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few weeks following the closing of his “Reading Rainbow” campaign on Kickstarter, former host of the PBS children’s series LeVar Burton discusses his initial reaction to the project’s launch and success on the crowdfunding platform. Over 105,000 backers pledges a total of $5.4… Read More

May 23, 2014 @ 5:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Google spawn YouTube made a major announcement today about their future product roadmap.  As part of the announcement where they discussed forthcoming new tools, apps and more, they recognized the importance of advertising revenue generated by the global video megalith (of which they make tons… Read More

March 20, 2014 @ 10:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Steve Swink is an Arizona-based game developer and the man behind Scale, a video game that raised over $100,000 on Kickstarter in a round that closed late in 2013. The game looks incredible, by the way. It elicits thoughts of Portal with a bit of… Read More

January 23, 2014 @ 12:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Board game Chaosmos, developed by independent publisher Mirror Box Games, launched their crowdfunding campaign January 2nd and made $30,000 (75% of its goal) in the first three days. The target of raising $40,000 on Kickstarter has almost been doubled as over 1000 backers jumped in… Read More

January 14, 2014 @ 10:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Escapist : Jimquisition : Early Access The video above has resulted in a bit of a kerfuffle on the forums for Star Citizen. It features The Escapist video game review editor Jim Sterling going off about early access games, which are invariably linked to the… Read More

January 13, 2014 @ 11:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdfunding failure isn’t always necessarily accompanied by crowd outrage and demands of refunds. This is proven in a recent series of backer updates from indie game developer Roxlou Games, and specifically from company founder Joe Houston. Roxlou and Houston turned to Kickstarter to fund a… Read More

January 9, 2014 @ 9:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Social network for gaming gamesGRABR  has successfully closed its crowdfunding campaign, quickly achieving its £150,000 target and ending with nearly 20% of over funding. Investment in the growing gaming social network proved popular with the target amount being achieved in just 5 weeks. All 178 investors now… Read More

December 14, 2013 @ 12:27 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We recently reported on tabletop gaming being a huge segment of successful Kickstarter raises. It seems the trend continues. A Mega Man board game in development by Lubbock, Texas-based Jasco Games is crowdfunding on Kickstarter now, and the campaign quickly met a $70,000 goal. It… Read More

October 4, 2013 @ 11:04 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Polygon recently did an installment of Polygon Live where Polygon staffers Chris Plante and Russ Pitts discussed whether Kickstarter has been a success or failure by video gamers until now. If you’re interested in watching their segment, it is embedded to the right. However, I… Read More

October 1, 2013 @ 10:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Kickstarter campaign for Mighty No. 9 is in its final hours. With a fitting 9 hours to go at the time of writing, the campaign has raised over $3.4 million. This puts it about $800,000 short of the second all-time game-related Kickstarter campaign, Torment: Tides… Read More

September 25, 2013 @ 10:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

While the crowdfunding world was busy celebrating the lifting of the ban on general solicitation, Valve Corporation made a big announcement in the gaming world. The announcement has the potential to provide a boon to an increasingly robust crowdfunded indie game scene. First, a bit… Read More

September 23, 2013 @ 11:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Gridiron Thunder “Awesome Indie Football Game for OUYA” started with big expectations and much fanfare but slowly devolved into controversy and question.  The game was participating in OUYA’s Free the Games Fund and set to receive additional funding. The crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter set a… Read More

September 16, 2013 @ 1:14 am By JD Alois  |  

STEM virtual reality game controller set a crowdfunding goal of raising $250,000 this past Thursday and they hit this goal on the same day.   Standing at almost $500,000 only a few days into their campaign, the STEM system has the potential to enter the… Read More

September 3, 2013 @ 11:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Heralding from Tokyo based independent studio comcept USA, a Japanese game design and dev studio launched in 2006, is potentially the next big game crowdfunding success. Mighty No. 9 just fired up their crowdfunding project last week on August 31st.  Stated goal was to raise… Read More

August 28, 2013 @ 1:48 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

BOOM or DOOM is a documentary currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter that aims to put an interesting spin on the crowdfunded documentary model. See, project creators Sean and Alan plan on using Kickstarter to raise funds for an upcoming party game, entitled Two Rooms and a Broom…. Read More