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Read More »The Wonderful 101 Remastered crowdfunding effort raises $2.25m
Star Citizen crowdfund hits $250 million
2,448,842 backers funded $9m (£6.9m) in November 2019 alone
Read More »InXile CEO: ‘In order for us to survive we’ve got to do good games’
"The deck is more stacked in our favour than it ever has been"
Read More »Star Citizen crowdfund hits $200 million
"It's beyond anything I could have imagined in my wildest dreams"
Read More »Video games crowdfunding estimated to bring in $25m in 2017
Figures from Ico Partners have shown that the video games crowdfunding market has dipped by less than two per cent in 2017. Ico’s chief Thomas Bidaux has said that the firms estimates point to around $25m being raised by video game crowdfunding in 2018 in a piece for PCGamesInsider.biz, with …
Read More »A spiritual successor to Skate has breezed past its Kickstarter target
Session, a game that very much draws inspiration from EA’s much-loved Skate series, has smashed its Kickstarter target in just four days. Skate 3 was famously republished and pushed back out to retail four years after its initial release after a starring role in a number of PewDiePie videos. Now …
Read More »Kickstarter launches Patreon rival Drip
Crowdfunding giant Kickstarter has launched a new service designed to rival the likes of Patreon. While Kickstarter can be used to crowdfund products and projects with a one-off payment from backers, Drip instead looks to provide creative individuals with an ongoing monthly payment. As the company phrases it: “Kickstarter is …
Read More »Versus Evil to publish Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
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 »Reality Gaming Group gets a $3.5 million cash injection from in-game offering and cryptocurrency
Investors can use Ethererum to purchase the initial coin offering or ICO, with funds going towards game development
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 …
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