Pyrodactyl has released a new tease trailer for its crowd-funded adventure role-playing game, Unrest. Unrest is based in and around the fictional city of Bhimra, which finds itself in turmoil amid a leadership change after the assassination of the ruling royal family. The game focuses heavily on narrative and conversation, …
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Full-body tracking suit aims to allow players to interact naturally with game worlds
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No credit accord information accessed during security breach, claims CEO
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Crowdfunding giant Kickstarter has confirmed that it was last week the victim of a hack that compromised some user data. The breach occurred last Wednesday (February 12th) and saw hackers gain unauthorised access to some customer data including usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers and encrypted passwords. Fortunately, no …
Read More »Bleszinski mulling crowdfunding campaign for next title
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 »Ex-Infinity Ward vets take to Kickstarter with To the Death
A pair of indie studios led by a trio of industry veterans have launched a Kickstarter campaign for 2D action side-scroller, To the Death. Representing Scary Monstro, Todd Alderman and Francesco Gigliotti previously served as lead designer and engineer (respectively) at Infinity Ward – specifically on the Call of Duty …
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
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First act of adventure title to be released nearly two years after hitting Kickstarter
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