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Legal Opinion: Do you want to own a games studio? Investment crowdfunding is...
Ever wanted to own a games studio? Now you can! Almost. And you can thank Obama. In 2012, the Americans signed into law the JOBS Act, or Jumpstart Our Business Startups. Now, at the end of 2013, it’s...
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Australian-made brawler Grow sees you battling other monsters as an adorable...
It looks a bit cutesy and perhaps it is, but don’t let that stop you from enjoying the premise of Grow, an Australian-made 32-player online brawler where you play an adorable, evolving little monster...
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Final Fantasy Tactics designer takes to Kickstarter with new tactical RPG
Yasumi Matsuno, the man behind Final Fantasy Tactics, would like $600,000 of your dollars to put towards a new tactical RPG on Kickstarter. Going by the name of Unsung Story, the game is described as...
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an enormous open-world CryEngine 3 medieval sandbox
A new Czech Republic studio by the name of Warhorse, whose developers have worked on titles such as Mafia, Mafia 2, ArmA, Operation Flashpoint, Crysis 3, and Forza Horizon, have pulled the wraps off an...
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Kickstarter Roundup (January 2014): Seven titles currently looking for your...
Kickstarter! It can be a confusing place, with so many games popping up, some of them only to burst a few days later, some of them limping along until the creator sadly pulls the plug with 24 hours to...
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Kickstarter website hacked, change your password
Over the weekend news came to light that Kickstarter, the website which powers a thousand nostalgic gaming dreams, recently suffered a security breach. While Kickstarter assure us that no credit card...
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Sitrep: The problem with crowdfunding is the crowd
Forgive my cynicism (or don’t) but I’m not into Kickstarter’s vibe at all and, until this week, I couldn’t really figure out why. It was always an inkling; a something-something about every person and...
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X-COM creator Julian Gollop launches Kickstarter for new strategy game Chaos...
Some of you may be old enough to remember the original ZX Spectrum game Chaos, published in 1985. I certainly don’t because that’s the year I was born. Anyway, X-COM creator Julian Gollop was behind...
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Sitrep: Rise of the Beast Machines, or “Why Animal Simulators Are A Thing Now”
You know what I think is cool, is when something plays itself out. I don’t think it’s cool at the time, though. No one does. I mean, no one wants to sit there playing dumb games with no imagination....
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The Universim looks like what you’d get if the later stages of Spore were any...
It’s been a while since we last saw an interesting Kickstarter project – Toby’s treatise on video games’ own warped version of the tragedy of the commons is the last time we broached the subject, and...
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The Old City arrives on Kickstarter with eerie, atmospheric exploration
A Dear Esther-like first-person exploration game by the name of The Old City has arrived on Kickstarter, and it’s looking quite sweet. According to developers PostMod Softworks, the game “puts the...
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You Get Nothing: Why crowdfunded games just aren’t working
It's easy to understand the appeal of crowdfunding, at least on paper -- being able to pick and choose the projects that the community feels need direct support, and ensuring that they get a decent...
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Man raises $27,000 to make potato salad on Kickstarter
Making potato salad is difficult, you guys. Zack “Danger Brown” from Ohio has never made potato salad before, and so he turned to Kickstarter to ask for $10 to help him sort it out. Now, at the time of...
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Hand-drawn Viking exploration game Jotun looking sweet over on Kickstarter
Popping up on Kickstarter recently is Jotun, a very interesting-looking exploration-adventure game with some amazing hand-drawn art. It tells the story of a Norse warrior Thora, as she journeys through...
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Hard West is a tactical TBS set in the weird west with exploration and RPG...
Oh hell yes. I’ve mentioned before my love for Western themed video games, and in particular, that limited genre called Weird West in which you find the likes of Undead Nightmare, Blood and the old PSX...
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Kickstarter highlights over 100 games released through crowdfunding campaigns
It’s popular to be suspicious of crowdfunding campaigns these days. The potential is amazing – but so is the possibility for failure. Gamers have been burnt badly before, after all, whether it was the...
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Ex-Games Workshop designer working on Mark of War Kickstarter
Gav Thorpe, whose name will be well-known to Warhammer and Warhammer Fantasy tabletop players, is spearheading a new Kickstarter called Mark of War. The game is basically — and I say this with complete...
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More ex-BioShock developers take to Kickstarter for a new procedural rogue-lite
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s “ex-BioShock devs seek Kickstarter money” announcement comes today’s news that another group of ex-Irrationals are building a procedurally-generated rogue-lite game...
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Thimbleweed Park will be the spiritual successor to Maniac Mansion and Monkey...
Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick are the co-designers of Maniac Mansion, one of the best loved of the Lucasarts adventure games. And now they have joined back together to make a new game – Thimbleweed...
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Hollow Knight is a brilliant looking exploratory platformer from Adelaide...
Aww yeah. As readers will be aware, I loves me some exploratory platforming. Castlevania, Metroid are the obvious classics, but recently there has been a bit of a resurgence in the genre’s popularity,...
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Developer on a Pedestal: Our nostalgia is clouding reality, and it has to stop
Like almost everyone over the age of 30, there have been times where I have been stung by the bee of nostalgia. Our generation seems more determined than almost every other to demand a constant...
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Dimension Drive blends vertical shoot-em-ups with two screens that you can...
You’d think the principle of teleportation would have been done in games by now, thanks to Portal and everything that used portals as a go-between in all those 90s shooters, but it turns out there are...
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BioShock Infinite and Dead Space alumni launch Kickstarter for Perception, a...
While I’ve never been a much of a horror aficionado, even I can’t help but be impressed with the genre’s resurgence over the last few years. The best part of it, too, has been the way the genre has...
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Pillars of Eternity’s card game launches its Kickstarter campaign, reaches...
Obsidian Entertainment revealed earlier this year their plans to launch a Kickstarter off the back of their successful Pillars of Eternity campaign for a tabletop RPG and card game and as of this week,...
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The Bard’s Tale IV adds Planescape Torment designer Chris Avellone as a...
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Brian Fargo and inXile Entertainment are absolute geniuses when it comes to launching crowdfunding campaigns. They’ve already had two cracking successes in...
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