Figures from Ico Partners have shown that the video games crowdfunding market has dipped by less than two per cent in 2017. Ico’s chief Thomas Bidaux has said that the firms estimates point to around $25m being raised by video game crowdfunding in 2018 in a piece for PCGamesInsider.biz, with …
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