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March 17, 2017 @ 6:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, tabletop game creator, Tasty Minstrel Games (TMG), launched its equity crowdfunding campaign through Indiegogo. Founded in 2010, the company has secured more than $2.5 million on Kickstarter to fund 26 individual hobby board gaming projects. While sharing details about the company’s history, the… Read More

March 17, 2017 @ 10:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based in-game advertising platform Giftgaming successfully surpassed its initial £80,000 funding target through its second equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. The company launched the initiative at the end of January and has so far raised more than £85,000. As previously reported, Giftgaming is described as a patent-pending in-game ad service… Read More

March 14, 2017 @ 8:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Tabletop studio and publisher, CoolMiniOrNot has launched its 26 reward-based crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. The company, which has created various popular board games such as Zombicide, Blood Rage, The Others, and Arcadia, sought to raise $300,000 for its new game Rising Sun and quickly secures… Read More

March 8, 2017 @ 3:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, crowdfunding giant Kickstarter announced the games that are participating in its Game Castle at this year’s PAX East, which will take place on March 10th-12th in Boston. The funding portal revealed: “Featured tabletop games include Elan Lee’s Kickstarter record-smashing Exploding Kittens — which raised… Read More

February 14, 2017 @ 2:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just one month after securing more than $11 million on Kickstarter for his new project Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5, creator of the highly anticipated board game, Adam Poots, sat down with the platform to discuss his crowdfunding experience. As previously reported, Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5 is… Read More

February 9, 2017 @ 10:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

NextGen Crowdfunding announced on Thursday the first round winners of its Crowdfunding Video Awards (CVAs), which recognizes the best pitch videos from both reward and equity crowdfunding campaigns. The company’s CVAs provides campaign organizers new ways to promote crowdfunding campaigns and products to backers as well as… Read More

February 2, 2017 @ 11:48 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Failbetter Games, the London-based video game studio behind Kickstarter success Sunless Sea, has returned to the crowdfunding giant’s platform to raise funds for the game’s sequel, Sunless Skies. Originally seeking £100,000, the project has already secured nearly £160,000 from more than 4,200 backers. Sunless Skies is described as a 2D, top-down,… Read More

January 27, 2017 @ 3:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In-game advertising platform Giftgaming has returned to Seedrs with a mission to raise £80,000. The website raised £35,000 through its first campaign on the crowdfunding platform just a little over two years ago.  Giftgaming is described as a patent-pending in-game ad service and startup supported by Accelerate… Read More

December 30, 2016 @ 8:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few months after securing $2,952,508 from 16,732 backers for its project, Superbook, on Kickstarter, California startup Andromium announced shipping of the tech product from winter 2017 to summer 2017.  As previously reported, the device, which is described as a smart laptop shell that consists of an 11.6″ HD screen,… Read More

December 26, 2016 @ 10:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Roberts Space Industries, the company behind famous crowdfunded game, Star Citizen, announced last Friday that the game, along with Squadron 42, will now be using Amazon Lumberyard game engine. Originally, the video game studio revealed it was using Crytek’s game engine, CryEngine. Unfortunately, Crytek has reportedly… Read More

December 13, 2016 @ 4:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Yooka-Laylee Kickstarter backers, the wait is ALMOST over! Playtonic Games announced on Tuesday that the highly anticipated video game is finally getting a release date. As previously reported, Yooka-Laylee is described as a 3D platforming adventure for consoles and PC. During its run on Kickstarter’s platform, the video game successfully captured… Read More

December 2, 2016 @ 12:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just one week after board game creator Adam Poots launched a Kickstarter campaign for Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5, the new game has successfully secured more than $6.4 million from over 13,275 backers. Poots raised $2,049,721 for the original Kingdom Death: Monster game from 5,410 backers in November 2012…. Read More

November 28, 2016 @ 11:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kingdom Death, a “boutique” nightmare horror tabletop game project created by board game creator Adam Poots, launched a Kickstarter campaign on Friday to raise $100,000 for the new game Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5. Within a matter of days, the initiative has successfully secured more than… Read More

November 8, 2016 @ 9:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With nearly one week until its crowdfunding campaign on Fig comes to an end, 12 East Games’ latest video game, Trackless, has successfully secured initial $20,000 funding target thanks to more than 400 backers. Trackless is described as an atmospheric first-person exploration and puzzle game that is… Read More

November 1, 2016 @ 10:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Kickstarter announced the launch of its new live video and real-time community engagement feature, Kickstarter Live. The funding portal revealed the feature was built in collaboration with Vancouver-based startup Huzza, and a select few creators have been beta testing Kickstarter Live over the past few… Read More

October 20, 2016 @ 3:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Aubrey Serr of 12 East Games has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Fig for her new video game Trackless. The project was launched this week and quickly secured half of its funding target of $20,000 in less than 24 hours. Trackless is described as an atmospheric first-person exploration… Read More

October 18, 2016 @ 2:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Elan Lee (Xbox, ARGs) and Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal), launched Kickstarter campaign on Tuesday to raise $10,000 for their new game, Bears vs. Bears. The duo previously secured $8,782,571 from 219,382 backers for the hit card game, Exploding Kittens.  Bears vs Babies is described as a card game where players build handsome,… Read More

October 14, 2016 @ 8:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, Kickstarter announced it is set to host its very own “Ghost Arcade” Games Festival at BRIC in Fort Greene Brooklyn on October 29th. The reward-based crowdfunding platform stated that visitors would get to experience both video and table games from New York-based creators…. Read More

October 6, 2016 @ 3:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fig Publishing, Inc., a crowdfunding and publishing platform that allows non-accredited investors to financially support video game development and publishing, announced on Thursday it is officially collecting funds for Psychonauts 2 Fig Game Shares. This news comes just one week after the funding website secured SEC qualification to issue the… Read More

September 29, 2016 @ 12:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fig Publishing, Inc., a crowdfunding and publishing platform that allows non-accredited investors to financially support video game development and publishing, announced on Thursday it secured SEC qualification to issue Double Fine’s Psychonauts 2 game shares. Fig stated it would be the first and only company to allow fans… Read More