Tag Archives: kickstarter

Hardware expected to reach backers by the end of June

Campaign closes at $4.19 million to become most-funded game in crowdfunding website's history

Crowdfunded project surpasses $3.5 million with less than two days to go

Stelulu Technologies turned quite a few heads at PAX East last week with its innovative new PC game controller, the Stinky Footboard. The device is a bit like an oversized d-pad that you plug into your PC’s USB port and control with your feet. It’s a PC gaming peripheral that …

Shadowgun and Smash Cops revealed as launch titles

Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Productions raised $3.4 million through Kickstarter last year for its new game, tentatively called Double Fine Adventure. The game now has a proper name – Broken Age. The crowd-funded point-and-click adventure follows two characters leading parallel lives. The girl has been chosen by her village to …

Indie studio behind the Cave and Stacking names its upcoming Kickstarter-backed title

Kickstarter pledges have totaled over $22m thus far in 2013, with $107.6m pledged lifetime to games alone on the crowdfunding site. A Kickstarter blog post reports that since the service started in 2009, 1,476 new games have been successfully funded by over 633k backers. More than 4,500 game-related projects have …

Joe Ybarra ditches publishers and plans Kickstarter for space strategy title

It’s safe to say Brian Fargo’s latest Kickstarter effort, Torment: Tides of Numenera, will indeed be funded. The project shattered Kickstater records earlier today, when it surpassed the $1m milestone right around six hours into the 30-day donation period. Currently, the Kickstarter page displays over $1.58m pledged by nearly 30,000 …