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The total amount of money pledged on Kickstarter since its inception on April 28th 2009 has now passed $1bn. On its first day 40 people pledged $1,084 to seven projects. By September 2011 total pledges had reached $98,637,926. The booming popularity of the service means that over half of its …

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US firm led by ex-Zenimax Online Studios marketing director Steve Escalante

It looks as if Ubisoft may be on the cusp of confirming a new release date for Watch Dogs. Last week NeoGaf spotted a competition that temporarily appeared on the PSN website including an image with the text find out the release date in this new trailer”. In addition, IGN …

Another tempting Xbox One offer has appeared on the UK High Street. Zavvi is currently taking pre-orders on the 399.99 Xbox One Titanfall bundle but is also offering one free game from a selection of four – Forza 5, Ryse, Dead Rising 3 or Zoo Tycoon. Microsoft announced a price …

The term is batted around the industry all too regularly, but Mediatonic CEO David Bailey explains what the model really means for smaller devs

More than one million users input commands as players overcame the odds to beat the Elite Four, each other and arch nemesis Blue

Creature Box Studio’s first game, Space Runner, is out now for Android devices. Space Runner is a 2D endless game, where the player must navigate a space ship through asteroids using swipe controls, while at the same time destroying asteroids by tapping them. Creature Box is Indore-basedAnshul Soni’s one-man start-up …

It has been confirmed that Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein developer 3D Realms has been acquired by Danish investment firm SDN Invest, SDN in the part-owner and main investor in Danish Rise of the Triad developer Interceptor Entertainment, whose chairman Mike Nielsen (also SDN’s founder and former Coolshop CEO) has now …

Credit-card sized computer Raspberry Pi has sold 2.5 million units around the world. Created by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to encourage students to study computer programming by means of a cheap computer, the tech can cost as little as 20 to 30. Following the latest milestone, the organisation has made …