Tag Archives: kickstarter

Energy Hook raises $7,000 by second day despite low funding target

Nvidia amongst wave of new backers for Android console

Shannon Sun-Higginson is celebrating the Kickstarter success of her movie GTFO: A Film About Women in Gaming. The project, a documentary about the abuse suffered by female gamers and female games industry professionals, has successfully reached its $20,000 target. At the time of writing it stands at $28,500 with 52 …

Cloud Imperium’s Star Citizen has surpassed $9m in crowdfunding. The game raised $2.1m during its 2012 Kickstarter campaign, and the Roberts Space Industries site has brought in the remaining $6.9m. The game has been in development for over a year, and aims to combine elements of Roberts’s previous games Wing …

Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts' Cloud Imperium hits stellar milestone

New documentary seeks to expose sexual harassment of female gamers

Former Ubisoft Singapore design director Jamie Stowe has joined 22 Cans. The Assassin’s Creed III level design director will assume the role of technical designer at Peter Molyneux’s indie studio – specifically focusing on the Kickstarter-funded project, Godus. "Jamie joins 22cans at a very exciting time and takes the role …

Developer Lab Zero Games had to overcome payment firm PayPal to keep development of Skullgirls on track. The game was the subject of a successful crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo, raising just under $830k last month. However, PayPal froze the studio’s account and threatened to keep it locked unless it received …

Chloe Sagal can now afford surgery to remove shrapnel causing her life-threatening metal poisoning

A fan of 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme and Kylie Minogue flick Street Fighter? Then today is a very good day for you. A new Kickstarter campaign has been launched that hopes to create a real-life Street Fighter themed TV series. Unlike the ‘90s movie, however, this looks like it might …