Tagged: video games

June 10, 2014 @ 4:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few weeks after the closing of its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, Harmonix announced over the weekend its already hard at work on the new version of the game “Amplitude,” which is set to hit PS3 and PS4 in March 2015. Art director and project… Read More

May 24, 2014 @ 11:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fresh off the closing of its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, Massachusetts-based video game  company Harmonix Music Systems beat its $775,000 goal for “Amplitude.” The video game is known as a “rhythm-action music game” for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation that is based on the 2003 cult classic…. Read More

May 17, 2014 @ 9:33 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last month, the video game development company Harmonix launched a $775,000 crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to hopefully bring its rhythm-action game, “Amplitude,” to PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. Unfortunately, with only a week left of the campaign funding is falling short. Director of publishing and… Read More

May 5, 2014 @ 10:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Seeking to bring back an old-school videogame favorite “Shaq-Fu” featuring former NBA player Shaquille O’Neal, Big Deez Productions launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for the sequel for the 1994 game called “Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn.” The production team is hoping to raise $450k… Read More

March 12, 2014 @ 12:50 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Wow. $40,000,000+ in crowdfunding cash from 400,000+ backers for Star Citizen. To put that in perspective, the 2010 census placed the population of Wyoming – the smallest state by population – at somewhere around 560,000 people. At what point should Star Citizen get a couple of Senators and… 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 11, 2014 @ 10:50 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Could you imagine having raised over $100,000 on Kickstarter only to cancel the campaign with less than 48 hours to go? That is precisely what Tivitas Interactive has done, and they deserve a lot of credit for it. The campaign was for the Sinister multi-platform… 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 28, 2014 @ 4:44 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

In late September of 2013 a group of gaming enthusiasts launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring a gaming and comic book convention to the South Bend, Indiana area. It was to be called River-Con. The group was able to raise $4,000 on a goal of… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 9:29 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Late last week, Games Industry International published an interview with DoubleFine’s Tim Schafer that discussed the studio’s recent experiences with Kickstarter at length. It’s an interesting look into the crowdfunding process from the perspective of a company that has raised millions using crowdfunding. Perhaps the most… Read More

February 21, 2014 @ 11:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Virtuix found itself at the center of a revolutionary shift in the video game industry after they raised over $1.1 million on Kickstarter. The campaign funded the Virtuix Omni, an immersive treadmill-like device for gamers. According to a recent backer update, shipping has begun for… 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 13, 2014 @ 10:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A Kickstarter campaign with some serious star power behind it is dangerously close to losing out on over half a million dollars in crowdfunding cash. Of course, that also means they’re on the precipice of closing a huge $600,000+ crowdfunding round. The next 33 hours… Read More

February 10, 2014 @ 9:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

According to a recent backer update, Star Citizen was prominently featured in a recent article in PC Games magazine in Germany. Cloud Imperium urged all of their German fans to pick up a copy, but they also shared some artwork that was featured in the article. If the… 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

February 3, 2014 @ 11:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In late 2013, Helsinki-based video game studio Bugbear launched a Kickstarter campaign for their upcoming title, the ambiguously-named Next Car Game. The campaign sought $350,000 in funding, but it became clear shortly after launch that the stated funding goal was going to be a reach. The… Read More

February 2, 2014 @ 11:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Shanghai-based video game development shop Spicy Horse and leader American McGee are fairly well known in the world of crowdfunding. The outfit has three Kickstarter campaigns under its belt. Two have succeeded while funding for a third was cancelled. The first of these projects to… 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 25, 2014 @ 2:01 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

A thread on gaming forum NeoGAF has emerged that includes what appear to be some leaked early screenshots from the upcoming Mega Man spiritual successor Mighty No. 9. The game was funded on Kickstarter to the tune of just over $3.8 million. There is some… Read More

January 24, 2014 @ 9:38 am By Charles Luzar  |  

@hugotheonly1 I’m a big fan if oculus, and will buy one 🙂 but the valve demo really blew me away. VR is going to be amazing — David Hensley (@TheDavidHensley) January 16, 2014 Valve is a name that has become synonymous with disruption in the… Read More