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October 7, 2014 @ 5:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Boston-based Day for Night Games has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $500,000 for a new first-person video game known as The Black Glove. The company has assembled a team of former Irrational Games developer, who helped create famous games BioShock and BioShock Infinite.  According to the campaign’s website,… Read More

October 6, 2014 @ 10:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

While video games continued to be a huge hit on the crowdfunding giant Kickstarter, it seems not everyone believes that the category is actually as successful as it seems. Despite the platform helping game developers raise $57,934,417.74 in 2013, UK-based firm ICO Partners revealed that the gaming campaigns have struggled… Read More

October 2, 2014 @ 4:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In 2012, Obsidian Entertainment made an appearance on Kickstarter to raise $100,000 for its new and exciting game, Pillars of Eternity.  The game immediately hit the spotlight and received nearly $4 million by close to 80,000 backers by its closing. Unfortunately, the California-based developer announced… Read More

September 15, 2014 @ 9:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Setting out to bring an old fan favorite back to life, California-based company FarSight Studios debuted its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to digitize The Addams Family pinball game on Friday (September 12th). FarSight Studios has over 20 years of experience developing video games for consoles, phones and… Read More

September 8, 2014 @ 10:06 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Kuju Startups Fund crowdfunding campaign listed on Seedrs posted exciting news:  the campaign just secured a £200,000 investment from an UK-based angel investor. Details arrived via email from Co-Founder Travis Winstanley, “The investor is a private individual, with a background in M&A, who sees huge… Read More

September 6, 2014 @ 2:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

University of California San Diego Computer Science and Engineering alumni Lindsey Handley, with the startup company ThoughtSTEM, launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign earlier this week to raise $50,000 for a new video game which will help teach children how to code. CodeSpells provides a coding… Read More

September 2, 2014 @ 1:34 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hoping to have another successful run on the crowdfunding giant Kickstarter, Gonzales resident Matthew Taranto has launched another campaign for his hit board game Brawl in the Family. Setting out to raise only $56,000 this round, the campaign has already reached $18,000 from close to… Read More

August 19, 2014 @ 4:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Square Enix Collective and Kitfox Games are delighted to announce that Moon Hunters, the pixel-art mythology-building RPG, will begin crowdfunding on Kickstarter next Tuesday, August 26th. Square Enix Collective is a curated platform that enables creators to post ideas, and gamers to judge whether those ideas… Read More

July 28, 2014 @ 2:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

They say,“third time’s a charm” and hopefully this is the case for sci-fi horror video game Caffeine. Australian indie developer Dylan Browne made the first attempt to raise funds for the game on Indiegogo in May, but only raised close to $3,200 of its $80,000 goal…. Read More

June 27, 2014 @ 10:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Since being established in 2009, Kickstarter has gained some famous video games on its roster, including FTL: Faster than Light, Wasteland 2, The Banner Saga, Octodad:Dadliest Catch, Castle Story, and, of course, Broken Age. Now, the crowdfunding giant is ready to introduce a new service called Play Now. It will allow… Read More

June 5, 2014 @ 11:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Australian entrepreneurs and IRL Shooter founders Drew Hobbs and David Leadbetter, who are behind real-life video game “Lazarus,” not only received their $308k crowdfunding campaign goal on Pozible, but also broke a new record on the platform. The campaign received $359k by 1,517 Melburians. According to… Read More

April 29, 2014 @ 5:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With only a few days left of its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign,  League of Geeks’ new game “Armello” has almost reached its $200,000. The game takes players into a world of imagination as each play as a “hero” from one of fourt animal clans: rat, rabbit,… Read More

March 12, 2014 @ 10:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Joystiq’s monthly Crowdfund Bookie report is out and it isn’t pretty. For the quarter beginning in December 2013 and ending February 2014, just over $6.1 million was contributed to video game-related crowdfunding campaigns. That is down more than 50% from the $12.5 million contributed between… Read More

March 10, 2014 @ 10:39 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Former NBA star and current analyst for TNT Shaquille O’Neal is crowdfunding on Indiegogo. The goal: to fund a sequel to Shaq Fu, a video game released in the mid-90’s. Even Shaq would admit that Shaq Fu was terrible, but take a look at the preview trailer… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 6:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Video Game High School (VGHS) beat their $750,000 goal crowdfunding on Indiegogo by raising $898,242 from 10,907 backers.  With 5 days to go in their flexible funding campaign the project was short of goal.  In a backers update on Friday, February 19, VGHS shared they… Read More

February 18, 2014 @ 11:32 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Today in VentureBeat, GamesBeat writer and beloved game industry prognosticator Dean Takahashi lays out the findings of a survey handed out to the 2,600 attendees of the 2013 Game Developer Conference (GDC). The survey comes from UBM Tech Game Network, who organizes the GDC event. Of… Read More

February 8, 2014 @ 3:12 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Joystiq’s Crowdfund Bookie report for the month of January is out, and the findings are pretty stark. Mike Suszek’s monthly breakdown of crowdfunding in video games suggests a 63% drop in funding from December to January on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. The drop is largely attributed… Read More

January 29, 2014 @ 1:02 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In the fall of 2013 we reported on a rather notable move by Square Enix into the crowdfunding space. That effort has now launched, and it could help Indiegogo become more competitive in the world of video games. Collective is not a crowdfunding platform. Rather,… Read More

January 18, 2014 @ 4:52 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Greenlight is essentially a crowdsourcing platform where any of Steam’s 75,000,000 active users can help to determine what games get launched on Steam, the Valve-owned video game marketplace. It’s step one in a game development funnel Valve has used to empower smaller developers and studios…. Read More

January 5, 2014 @ 11:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter was dominant in 2013. Looking back to 2012, Kickstarter ended the year with over $320 million pledged to campaigns on the platform. After taking a look at the most recent Kickstarter statistics, they almost doubled it in 2013. We recently reported on some stats… Read More