By Adriana Lee |
I’ve long argued that one of the biggest things standing in the way of 3D printing’s mainstream potential was the price point. After all, not everyone has a couple of grand to plunk down on an emerging technology. So when news of an upcoming Kickstarter…
By Joey Davidson |
The Stomping Land is a brand new Kickstarter from developer Alex Fundora. Fundora has experience, he says, working on games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Dungeon Defenders. This new game will pit players in a multiplayer world filled with dinosaurs. The goal is survival, and that…
By Ron Duwell |
Independent Canadian developer Silicon Knights might be on the verge of going the way of the dodo bird, but that isn’t stopping the team from moving on with their most anticipated title, a follow-up to the 2002 GameCube hit Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. Under the moniker of Precursor…
By Joey Davidson |
The recently launched Kickstarter for Stonehearth, a village building tactical strategy game, has just crossed its fiscal goal. The Radiant Games team requested $120,000 to get their game made. In just three days time, they’ve exceeded that goal. At the time of drafting this post, Stonehearth has…
By Ron Duwell |
One of our favorite Kickstarter campaigns has reached a happy conclusion. Yacht Club Games has successfully raised enough funds to complete their 2D action game Shovel Knight with $311,502 in donated money. The team originally asked for only $75,000, putting them at over four times…
By Ron Duwell |
Obsidian Entertainment has just shown off some of the first in-game footage of their upcoming game Project Eternity. The results are absolutely gorgeous, and they include trees, water, tides and the day/night cycle, as well as some of the first character models seen in motion.…
By Ron Duwell |
The guys over at Tested received an early development kit of the Kickstarter funded Oculus Rift Virtual Reality headset, and they used it to record 30 minutes of everyone’s favorite multiplayer shooter, Team Fortress 2. Initial reactions using the headset lean towards both confusion and excitement.…
By Ron Duwell |
Torment: Tides of Numenera‘s developers at inExile are now just rolling in the cash donated by more than 74,000 gamers. Their Kickstarter campaign closed shop over the weekend and raked in an impressive $4.19 million, making it the most funded game in the website’s history.…
By Ron Duwell |
Mega Man has long been known as being one of the giants of 8-bit soundtracks. Capcom composers really were able to dig deep within the machines and pull out some eternally amazing tunes for the original six games of the series. One of those famed…
By Ron Duwell |
Obsidian Entertainment’s Chris Avellone will be joining forces with inXile Entertainment to help develop their upcoming RPG, Torment: Tides of Numenera. inXile promised that Avellone would jump aboard if the game’s Kickstarter reached a whopping $3.5 million before the end of the campaign. With the goal…
By Ron Duwell |
Double Fine’s record setting Kickstarter game has officially been given a title. Tim Schafer and his off-beat indie team will be using their $3.45 million in pledged money to fund Broken Age. The point-and-click adventure is Schafer’s first attempt at the genre since his 1998…
By Maximum PC |
Why hasn’t this already been done? For first person shooters, real-time strategy titles, and most gaming genres outside of sports, using a mouse and keyboard trumps a console controller, hands down. I won’t debate this, but after reading about the Stinky Footboard, I am willing to…
By Ron Duwell |
Kickstarter’s ultimate test could be just around the corner, and a lot sooner than anyone expected. It’s had a lot of success in funding some high profile games, but nothing comes close to topping this. Could Shenmue 3 be the game that proves this crowd-funding…
By Todd Haselton |
I’ve only used Kickstarter to fund a single project, it was a pair of sunglasses called Sunskis and they’re amazing, but now I might start using it more frequently. The company announced an official iOS application on Thursday that will allow you to keep track…
By Adriana Lee |
Wearable tech is one of the buzziest buzz phrases going these days. So in a world where major multinational companies are investing heavily in glasses, bracelets and other gadgets, you’ve got to give credit to a little shop that manages to grab a ton of…
By Adriana Lee |
Gather round, it’s time for a holiday tale. The story begins with an interesting turn of events by a company located in the far away land of Cupertino, where new versions of popular products both thrilled and irritated the masses in the village of iOS.…
By Adriana Lee |
Kickstarter has put some mighty creative projects in the public eye, but few spark the imagination and product-lust that this crazy rig inspires. Meet Dieter Sturm and Jeff Seymour, founders of Jet Machines Extreme (JME) and creators of the Jet Vest. That’s right — these two men…
By Joey Davidson |
Peter Molyneux, of Fable and Black & White fame, started 22cans in order to create unique gameplay experiences. Their first effort was Curiosity for mobile devices, but now they’ve moved on to something else. Project GODUS is a god game that, if its Kickstarter succeeds, will release for the…
By Ron Duwell |
Of all the ridiculous RPGs in the world, none have captured the indie spirit on the internet more than Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. Once just a fun little RPG Maker 2003 game, it became a minor phenomenon when it slammed onto the internet…
By Eric Frederiksen |
Some Nintendo games I remember liking the first time around. Others I didn’t appreciate until much, much later. Shadowgate definitely falls into the second category. It was utterly incomprehensible to my 9-year-old brain and didn’t make a lick of sense until almost ten years later…
By Ron Duwell |
Charles Cecil and the development team Revolution Software is one of the better known set of names to have benefited from the recent Kickstarter craze. Their campaign for Broken Sword – the Serpent’s Curse was an overwhelming success, meeting its goal of $400,000 after only…
By Ron Duwell |
Loot Drop’s Brenda Brathwaite and Tom Hall have pulled the plug on their Kickstarter campaign for their old school RPG Shaker. After only two weeks, the project pulled in roughly $250,000 and was not on course to reach the requested $1 million with another two…
By Ron Duwell |
Obsidian Entertainment now holds the record for the most funded video game created through Kickstarter. The previous record holder, Double Fine Adventure from Double Fine Studios, started off a wave of excitement earlier in the year when it brought in $3.3 million by the end…
By Killian Bell |
Popular online funding platform Kickstarter is finally scheduled to make its debut in the United Kingdom on October 31, the company announced on Wednesday morning, and British startups can begin uploading their projects today in preparation for its launch. “Beginning October 31, people in the…
