Tagged: video games

January 23, 2014 @ 10:03 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Cloud Imperium Games has announced the release of Star Citizen’s Organization system. In Star Citizen, organizations are groups that will persist into the game. Organizations can be created by anyone with the game package on their account. There are a host of available features that are explained in… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 10:19 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Double Fine Adventure was a bit of a turning point in crowdfunded video games. When Double Fine Productions launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter seeking $400,000 in funding from the crowd, they couldn’t have imagined netting over $3 million. The road wasn’t easy from there… 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 17, 2014 @ 9:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Yasumi Matsuno has teamed with California-based Playdek on a tactical RPG entitled Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians. It’s kind of a big deal. Matsuno is a huge name in video games with titles like Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy XII under his belt. He has… Read More

January 15, 2014 @ 11:22 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Star Citizen isn’t the only video-game-related crowdfunding campaign that is running in some state of perpetuity. The lesser-known but still successful Shroud of the Avatar has taken the same approach to funding, using the IgnitionDeck Wordpress plugin to facilitate pledges from the crowd. It has worked well… 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 13, 2014 @ 9:46 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Tomorrow is a big day in the world of Kickstarter and video games. Double Fine Productions will release part one of Broken Age, the video game previously dubbed Double Fine Adventure. Haven’t shipped a game of my own in 4.5 years, an adventure game in 16, a… Read More

January 8, 2014 @ 10:48 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Oculus VR isn’t a stranger to rave reviews of the forthcoming Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset poised to be really disruptive in the video game industry. However, a recent piece in Gizmodo gives the device some seriously high praise. The title says it all: I Wore the… 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

January 2, 2014 @ 11:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Project Eternity was successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter to the tune of almost $4 million. Now the game’s developer, Obsidian Entertainment, has released a gameplay trailer ahead of the game’s scheduled release sometime this year. The campaign page promised April of 2014, and by the looks… Read More

December 27, 2013 @ 10:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Business Insider recently got their hands on an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and tried some things like riding a virtual roller coaster and exploring the planets. Their reaction? Amazement across the board, which is becoming a trend for the Oculus Rift. The Rift will… Read More

December 23, 2013 @ 9:06 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Star Citizen has surpassed $35 million in funding. Chris Roberts announced the milestone in a recent backer update posted to robertsspaceindustries.com… Wow! When I started this journey I would have never guessed that we would have come so far in such a short time. $35M… Read More

December 19, 2013 @ 10:01 am By Charles Luzar  |  

6This could be big. Oculus VR launched the Oculus Rift on Kickstarter and went on to grab almost $2.5 million in funding. Some are saying that Avegant’s upcoming Glyph headset could surpass it. After watching the following hands-on video from Engadget, we can see why…… Read More

December 16, 2013 @ 12:06 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Gamers wishing they backed the Kickstarter campaign for Wasteland 2 can rejoice. The game is now available to everyone via Steam Early Access. inXile Entertainment’s post-apocalyptic RPG raised just short of $3 million in a Kickstarter-powered funding effort that ended on April 17 of 2012…. Read More

December 13, 2013 @ 10:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The team behind the forthcoming, Kickstarter-backed video game Mighty No. 9 wanted to hire a community manager to increase communication between themselves and their backers. Seems to be a simple proposition, right? It just went nuclear. It all comes down to who the team picked to… Read More

December 13, 2013 @ 9:50 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Oculus VR has turned Kickstarter success into what is fast-becoming one of the most interesting startups in the US today. Following a $16 million series A round, the company has announced that they have now closed an additional round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz…. Read More

December 12, 2013 @ 9:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Joystiq’s Crowdfund Bookie series periodically takes a peek at crowdfunding data for game-related campaign raising money on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Today they published the latest breakdown, and it shows that 186 projects on these two platforms raised $23,914,666 from over 500,000 backers. Mighty No. 9 tops… Read More

December 7, 2013 @ 3:19 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kevin M. Duvall allowed us to share some charts he has compiled based in part on a list of the top 50 all-time Kickstarter campaigns we compiled back in September. The aim of the data is to show how Kickstarter success stories are dispersed across… Read More

December 6, 2013 @ 11:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

You have to love the community that has formed around Cloud Imperium Games’s upcoming release Star Citizen. The crowd that has formed around the game maintains various discussion communities around the Internet, not the least of which is the /r/starcitizen subreddit, which boasts almost 16,000 subscribers…. Read More