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August 26, 2013 @ 9:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Earlier this month we brought you the story of Precinct, a video game that had a cancelled Kickstarter campaign to its name. The team behind the game had turned to Wordpress crowdfunding plugin IgnitionDeck in order to roll their own funding platform solution. The team… Read More

June 19, 2013 @ 4:55 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

For the vintage video game loves of the world, 8-Bit Lit has a Kickstarter project that is aimed directly at you. The company is currently accepting crowdfunding contributions for their Question Block Lamp, and it looks like it’s straight out of your favorite Mario Bros…. Read More

May 28, 2013 @ 9:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Over the weekend, Silicon Era published a piece covering an earnings call by big time video game publisher Square Enix. Three recent titles put out by the publisher failed to meet sales targets, including Tomb Raider and Hitman: Absolution. Yosuke Matsuda, who is apparently next in… Read More

May 15, 2013 @ 11:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Video Games: The Movie is a feature length documentary which aims to tell the untold story of video games by an in depth look into not only how games are made, marketed and consumed by looking back at the industry’s history, current trends as well as the evolution of gamer… Read More

May 6, 2013 @ 11:27 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Redwall is a hugely popular children’s fantasy book series by author Brian Jacques. Now video game developer Soma Games has taken to Kickstarter to crowdfund an officially-licensed video game based on the series.

March 26, 2013 @ 10:53 am By Nicholas Tan  |  

Ever since Double Fine raised millions of dollars for their Kickstarter campaign last year, the site has become a popular breeding ground for indie development crowdfunding. But Thomas Bidaux, CEO at ICO Partners, wanted to know just how successful Kickstarter is and has finally revealing… Read More

March 24, 2013 @ 3:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter has done some internal polling and they have delivered a list of favorite games from their staff which were crowdfunded on their platform.  The list for video games and table top games – all available now – are below.  The list was compiled in… Read More

March 13, 2013 @ 11:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Richard Garriott, the award winning designer and creator of the Ultima franchise, makes his triumphant return to the genre that earned him a place in the Hall of Fame and a Lifetime Achievement Award. Shroud of the Avatar is the first installment of Richard’s new… Read More

February 13, 2013 @ 10:36 pm By TheWrap  |  

Freddie Wong and the team behind the blockbuster web series “Video Game High School” have shattered the record for a film campaign on Kickstarter, the crowdfunding site that has helped a number of aspiring and established filmmakers secure financing for their projects. Wong, Brandon Laatsch… Read More

May 9, 2017 @ 4:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Larian Studios, the company behind Kickstarter successes Divinity: Original Sin and Divinity Original Sin 2, announced on Tuesday details about Game Master Mode, a feature in Divinity: Original Sin 2 that allows players use Divinity’s combat and roleplaying systems to create their own custom tabletop RPG campaigns. As previously reported,… Read More

August 25, 2016 @ 1:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, Con Man: The Game officially made its debut on iTunes and Google Play. The new smartphone app game is part of the hit series Con-Man, which was funded last year on Indiegogo. The game’s description reads: “Have you ever tried to run your own comic book convention?… Read More

August 16, 2016 @ 3:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lenny announced on Tuesday the launch of its millennial credit education game, Lenny Points (LPs). The fintech startup revealed the in-app credit education game offers incentives for users to learn responsible financial behaviors. Users can now accrue LPs to increase their credit line balances and unlock custom… Read More

November 11, 2015 @ 4:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, global gaming TV channel, GINX, has kicked off a campaign to raise £540,000 through equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube. Sharing details about the website’s progress, the team at GINX wrote on the campaign’s page: “Ginx TV Ltd was founded in 2009 and we create and… Read More

June 10, 2015 @ 1:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Hi-Rez Studios, the developer of the popular third-person action multiplayer video game Smite, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $50 million so that it can create a new game (or sort of) that makes fun of popular projects that have used the funding method…. Read More

January 28, 2015 @ 9:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

One week down, nearly three more weeks to go! The Oatmeal’s Matthew Inman has been super busy continuing to promote his already Kickstarter success card game, Exploding Kittens.Now the project is nearing $4.3 million on the crowdfunding giant’s platform and has been dubbed the “The Most… Read More

June 19, 2013 @ 12:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

As part of the ongoing disruptor seriers, Ouya founder and CEO Julie Urhman was featured on CNBC this morning to talk about the Ouya gaming console. Ouya is a Kickstarter superstar – having funded $8,596,474.00 and ranks as one the most successful crowdfunding campaigns ever.  The… Read More

June 10, 2013 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Until just recently, the category crowdfunded films and video held the crown of the most popular projects on Kickstarter but now crowdfunding games has usurped this position.  From the Kickstarter stats page games stand as follows: Games Category: Total projects 5,584 Total Dollars $144.21 Million… Read More

March 27, 2013 @ 8:07 pm By AllThingsD  |  

Just over a year after the videogame Double Fine Adventure set records on Kickstarter, talk about the crowdfunding leader is in the air at GDC, the Game Developers Conference being held this week in San Francisco. On the conference’s first day, ICO Partners CEO Thomas… Read More

March 27, 2026 @ 1:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a significant clarification that has eased concerns among cryptocurrency watchers and shareholders, GameStop (NYSE:GME) has confirmed it did not liquidate roughly $324 million in Bitcoin earlier this year. The disclosure directly counters widespread market speculation that the video game retailer had fully cashed out… Read More

August 3, 2025 @ 2:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Gemini, which provides a cryptocurrency exchange and serves as a custodian, has announced an expansion of its tokenized stock offerings for customers in the European Union. The latest batch of tokenized stocks, or dShares, includes names such as Advanced Micro Devices (AMD),… Read More