The first units of the Ouya — the crowd funded, Android powered “indie” console — were sent out to Kickstarter backers earlier this month, and critics have not been kind to the new system. Today Ouya’s developers responded to the dissatisfied first impressions that people have …
For those who don’t know, Shovel Knight is a KickStarter project that launched just a couple weeks ago on March 14. I myself only first heard about the game when I caught a glimpse of it in the Indie Games Megabooth at PAX East. Combining a …
The crowd-funded, Android-powered Ouya game console finally has a release date: supporters who backed the Ouya project on Kickstarter should start receiving their consoles soon, while everybody else will have to wait until June 4th to get their hands on the experimental indie console.
Richard Garriott, more commonly known as Lord British to his fans, is making big plans for a spiritual successor to the Ultima series. The brand new RPG, titled Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, is the legendary developer’s first attempt back developing a new game after …
Legendary game designer and Virtua Fighter creator Yu Suzuki retired from Sega back in 2011, but he still hasn’t given up on finishing his most ambitious project: in an interview with French journalist Sebastien-Abdelhamid, Suzuki said he’s thinking about using Kickstarter to fund development of the long …
There’s still about a week left on Red Thread Games’ Kickstarter for Dreamfall Chapters, but the game has already surpassed its original goal of $850,000 by a wide margin. To celebrate their Kickstarter’s success, Red Thread has released a new trailer today for the long awaited …
Well if you’ve paid attention to the news in the last couple of days, those of us here in the Northeast are all about to get snowed in for the weekend; at least I hope that’s all that happens. According to them we’re in for a …
For those who follow the success stories of KickStarter, the name GameStick will sound familiar to you. Having reached over 500% of the original target goal set on January 2nd, 2013, the latest stretch goal is to exceed the “$560k” mark. Upon doing so, PlayJam will …
It was looking pretty grim only a week ago for Peter Molyneux’s Project GODUS Kickstarter, since then, however, the project managed a last minute surge of funds, making roughly $75,000 more than the $450,000 they were looking for. I have to admit that I had my …
In the beginning of the Kickstarter revolution, every game which made it to the crowdfunding site was news. Now however, just having a Kickstarter isn’t enough to hit the front page, there has to be something news worthy about the pitch otherwise no one will notice it. The …
A year ago most people had never even heard the term crowdfunding. Here we are a year later and not only is crowdfunding an actual thing, it’s become pretty popular. While Kickstarter has become synonymous with the trend, some games it seems aren’t completely reliant on …