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The Bloxels team on how it plans to make game creation accessible to children

Tiny Bull Studios tells us how it's dealing with a similar game launching parallel to its own

Power to the people,” John Lennon sang in 1971. It’s unlikely he was referring to video games – Pong wasn’t released until the following year – but the games industry certainly seems to have taken Lennon’s philosophy to heart 43 years later. Kickstarter is now synonymous with the crowdfunding trend …

Team wants to crowdfund $150,000 to develop narrative-driven horror game

It’s armed with some of the biggest IP of the last decade, but Telltale isn’t finished yet. SVP of publishing Steve Allison reveals the firm’s plans to unite TV and games in this week’s MCV. With E3 just around the corner, we hear from UK retailers about their concerns that …

Rare-inspired 3D platformer becomes highest crowdfunded British game of all time

2Awesome Studio nearly reaches $25,000, but payment was reversed with 30 minutes to go

What’s worse than not hitting your Kickstarter target? Thinking you have hit it, only to have that dream taken away. That’s exactly what happened to 2Awesome Studio whose shooter Dimension Drive was nearing its $25k with only minutes to spare. It seemed that success was to elude the group, only …

Playtonic’s crowdfunding success has just hit another milestone. The studio has announced that Yooka-Laylee, funding for which currently stands at 1.585m, has now claimed the title of the highest crowdfunded UK video game campaign ever, bypassing previous record holder Elite Dangerous. The project earlier this month hit its initial 175k …

Kickstarter is losing its popularity and that’sgood news for the games industry, says 22cans. The developer came under fire from the media and consumers after its Kickstarter project – Godus – suffered development issues. The firm later admitted it may fail to meet some of the pledges it made to …