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Uber Entertainment has cancelled its crowdfunding campaign for RTS Human Resources after raising less than a third of its $1.4m target. The team had previously raised $2.2m for its last Kickstarter project Planetary Annihilation in 2012, but was unable to replicate that success with its second game, raising $384,358 before …
Read More »Uber Entertainment cancels Human Resources Kickstarter
Studio fails to replicate success of Planetary Annihilation
Read More »Shovel Knight digging up Wii U and 3DS European release next month
Yacht Club games has announced that Shovel Knight will hit Nintendo platforms in the UK in November. The Kickstarted title arrived on Wii U and 3DS in the summer, with localisation problems blamed for the delay in releasing it in Europe. Thank you European and Australian region players for hanging …
Read More »Son aims to honour late father’s life by making a game
Former pizza delivery driver Thomas Finch crowdfunding Ethereal to help finish development and make something 'my dad would be proud of'
Read More »BioShock creators hit Kickstarter with The Black Glove
Day For Night Games – the studio which emerged from the ashes of Irrational Games earlier this year – has brought its first project The Black Glove onto Kickstarter. The team is compromised of former Irrational staff, creators of the BioShock and BioShock Infinite series – though if the media …
Read More »Thumb-sized game console trebles Kickstarter goal
Colour display TinyScreen works in tandem with computer processor TinyDuino to build handheld
Read More »PlayStation Home vets want to make PS4 virtual world Neotopia
A Kickstarter for a PlayStation Home-style virtual world on PS4 is now underway. It’s called Neotopia and has a number of developers that have previously worked on Sony’s surprisingly profitable PS3 venture, which is scheduled for termination next year. Features include customisable avatars and apartments, public spaces, voice and text …
Read More »Obsidian’s Pillars of Eternity pushed back to 2015
Pillars of Eternity, the crowdfunded RPG by Obsidian Entertainment, is going to miss its 2014 release date. This isn’t the first time that the game has been pushed back. When it was first Kickstarted – under the name Project Eternity – Pillars of Eternity was set for an April 2014 …
Read More »‘The honeymoon is over’ as Kickstarter video game pledges are on track to halve in 2014
Has the crowd-funding bubble burst? Obviously the $54m raised by Star Citizen may seem to suggest not, but the story is different across the wider sector. Thomas Bidaux of consultancy firm ICO Partners told an audience at the Ludicious Festival in Zurich recently that Kickstarter funded video game success is …
Read More »Experimental ‘Dexmo’ tech looks to give VR users a sense of touch
Dextra Robotics has unveiled a new peripheral of sorts for VR platofrms that would allow users to experience a sense of touch with virtual objects. Kotaku reports on the freshly unveiled hardware dubbed Dexmo, which apparently combines a VR controller with a motion capture rig specifically made for hands to …
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