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Pyrodactyl’s Unrest gets new teaser trailer

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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Kickstarter recommends password reset after hack is confirmed

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 …

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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," …

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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 …

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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 …

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