Independent publisher Versus Evil is to publish Obsidian Entertainment’s Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, the company has announced. The sequel to the hit RPG will launch on PC, Mac and Linus in early 2018. Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire recently made crowd-funding history when developer Obsidian brought the title to …
Read More »Swery’s The Good Life arrives on crowd-funding platform Fig
Swery, the creator of Deadly Premonition and D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die and founder of new indie studio White Owls, has announced that his next game will be funded through crowd-funding platform Fig. The Good Life, which Swery describes as a ‘debt repayment life simulation RPG’, is part murder mystery …
Read More »Fig unveils first investor returns
Fig has today announced its first-ever returns to investors. Accredited investors who purchased Fig Game Shares for Kingdom and Castles, the first Fig-funded game to be released, has earned a 2x (or 100 per cent) return on their initial investment after just a few weeks following the game’s launch. The …
Read More »Fig: ‘I thought publishing was broken’
When we think of industry-defining games, titles like Super Mario Bros., Tetris and Grand Theft Auto V immediately come to mind. No list would be complete, however, without the inclusion of Double Fine Adventure, the game that would eventually go on to be known as Broken Age and be responsible …
Read More »Obsidian announces Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire on Fig
Obsidian Entertainment has announced a new sequel to its smash hit RPG, Pillars of Eternity, and that it will be taking to crowd-funding and investment platform Fig to help finance the project. Entitled Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, the project has already met 86 per cent of its funding goal …
Read More »Fig to expand number of crowd-funding projects after raising $7.8m in VC finance
Crowdfunding and investment platform Fig has announced it’s secured $7.84m of funding in its first round of venture capital financing, a sum the company says will allow it to expand the number of game projects it can host going forward. VC firms Spark Capital and Greycroft led the round of …
Read More »Riot is finally introducing crowdfunding for League of Legends prize pools
Riot Games has responded to criticism of how it assists LoL teams financially by adding crowd funding options to the Worlds and MSI prize pools. Starting with Worlds 2016, which starts in just a few days, League of Legends players will be able to add to the prize pool by …
Read More »Payload Studios’ TerraTech: Lessons learned from Kickstarter
The UK studio discusses how it built a community before asking for a penny – and how it kept that community on board
Read More »Chris Roberts hopes Star Citizen will raise $100m
Crowdfunded space exploration game already nearing $63m in consumer donations
Read More »Kickstarter clarifies what happens when a project is canned
Crowdfunding platform says creators "must make every reasonable effort" to appease backers
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