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Designer Cliff Bleszinski’s upcoming project may look to go the Kickstarter route, the industry veteran has revealed. Speaking with GamerHub, Epic’s former design director teased that some concrete info on his new effort should arrive in the next month or two. "Expect some news hopefully in the next 4-6 weeks," …
Read More »American McGee’s Akaneiro tumbling down the Kickstarter rabbit hole
Steam Early Access game Akaneiro: Demon Hunters has cost creators Spicy Horse $1.7m, owner American McGee has revealed. The game successfully won $200k worth of backing on Kickstarter and has to date raised a total of $300k in revenue. However, with development costs of nearly $2m that has left the …
Read More »Crowdfunding website Indiegogo secures $40m investment
Funding to go toward expanding global presence and improving user experience
Read More »Star Citizen receives $4m in two months
Chris Roberts' Space sim MMO has now raised a total of $37m
Read More »Another $1m raised for Richard Garriott’s Shroud of the Avatar
New RPG from creator of Ultima has now received more than $3m in donations
Read More »Final Fantasy Tactics creator turns to Kickstarter
Project already due out on iOS, Android gets $178k for PC and Windows Tablet port
Read More »Double Fine’s Broken Age lands with backers tomorrow
First act of adventure title to be released nearly two years after hitting Kickstarter
Read More »Games draw $200m in Kickstarter pledges
Crowdfunding site's 2013 figures show games have biggest payouts despite unlikeliness of success
Read More »Capcom cuts off Ghosts ‘n Goblins: Demon World campaign
Japanese publisher terminates crowdfunding campaign over copyright ownership
Read More »Ex-Future staff start crowdfunding for rival Linux magazine
Three former writers from Future’s Linux Format magazine have set up a crowdfunding effort to establish a rival title. It’s called Linux Voice and is being made by former deputy editor Andrew Gregory, Mike Saunders and Ben Everard. The Indiegogo campaign is looking to raise 90,000, of which over 10k …
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