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Ouya is set to open a new $1 million fund to help boost successful Kickstarter projects. The ‘Free the Games Fund’ will back developers bringing their games exclusively to its Android console, and will match donations of successfully crowdfunded projects on Kickstarter from $50,000 up to $250,000. The initiative will …
Read More »Ouya opens $1m fund to boost Kickstarter projects
Android console firm to match successfully backed crowdfunding projects up to $250,000
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Indie developer takes a stand against promising added extras
Read More »Shadowrun dev plans a second Kickstarter
Harebrained Schemes is pleased with its crowdfunding experience
Read More »Deep Silver bringing crowd-funded Wasteland 2 to retail
Koch Media’s publishing label Deep Silver will distribute Wasteland 2, a post-apocalyptic adventure funded by Kickstarter. The game is the sequel to the 1988 PC RPG Wasteland by Interplay Productions and EA, which inspired Interplay’s later series Fallout. Wasteland 2 is in development at inXile Entertainment, a studio set up …
Read More »‘Launching on Kickstarter UK day one was a bad idea’
Develop Conference: Complicated payment system drove players away from Kung Fu project
Read More »Concern as Code Hero website goes offline
Kickstarter backers continue to mull litigation as broke devs promise fix
Read More »American McGee defends Double Fine Kickstarter
'Developers aren't your enemies. They're just people, like you, trying to make a living doing what they love'
Read More »Kickstarter champion Double Fine Adventure goes over budget
Double Fine has run in to trouble with its crowdfunded title Broken Age, previously known as Double Fine Adventure, which has gone over budget and past its projected completion date. The project launched on Kickstarter last year and raised over $3.3 million for an old-school adventure game”. The record-breaking success …
Read More »Double Fine breaks Broken Age in two
Kickstarter project is over budget and past due, but studio has a plan to save the game
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