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An impossible dream of creating a triple-A Star Wars RPG has, unsurprisingly, been cancelled by its creator. The pitch lit up parts of the internet earlier this week. With all the open world RPGs out there how is there not a good one for Star Wars?” it asked. I have …
Read More »Psychonauts 2 Fig campaign raises $3.3m
Hotly anticipated sequel fully funded with five days left for crowdfunding campaign
Read More »PayPal backers won’t get Shenmue 3’s Kickstarter rewards
Developer Ys Net has, thanks to what appears to be a bizarre data interpretation, decided that its PayPal backers will not be given the same treatment as its Kickstarter backers. The studio decided to poll fans over whether people who backed the game on PayPal after the end of its …
Read More »Revenue for Kickstarter games recovers in 2015 – report
Kickstarter games revenue has rebounded from its crash in 2014, according to a new report – though that hasn’t equated to more developers seeing success on the crowdfunding platform. A recent analysis by consultant Thomas Bidaux posted on Games Industry finds projects under Kickstarter’s games category brought in $41.6m thus …
Read More »Star Citizen smashes $100m in crowdfunding
The inevitable has happened: Star Citizen has now raised more than $100m through crowdfunding. According to the game’sFunding Goals page, more than 1m backers have pledged towards the game since Cloud Imperium Games began raising money three years ago. More than $30m has been raised in 2015 alone, much of …
Read More »Star Citizen crowdfunding surpasses $100m
Game’s backers now able to access Alpha 2.0 version of space exploration blockbuster
Read More »$1m Kickstarter Project Phoenix delayed to 2018, no refunds offered
Developer Creative Intelligence Arts has said that its successfully crowdfunded RPG Project Phoenix now won’t arrive until 2018. Furthermore, the studio has said that displeased backers won’t be refunded. Current estimates place dev at about 2.5 years out from completion,” the studio said. This is 2.5 years from the time …
Read More »12% of video game Kickstarter campaigns fail to deliver
Around three quarters of disappointed backers willing to pledge towards another project
Read More »9% of successfully funded Kickstarters are a ‘failure’
Around one in 11 successfully funded projects on Kickstarter still eventually fail, according to a new report. Games Industry reports on a study from Professor Ethan Mollick of the University of Pennsylvania, conducted in conjunction with – but independent from – Kickstarter itself. He declared that a Kickstarter can be …
Read More »Psychonauts 2’s Fig crowdfunding campaign already near $2m
Long-awaited sequel generates $1m in less than 24 hours
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