News Tagged: kickstarter

In this morning post I'm not going to yap on and on about irrelevant shit as I usually do. Instead, I'm going to offer a selection of leftover news stories - ya know, I few scoops you may have missed (or, to put it another way, stories I have missed): - Razer Hoping...

California based team called PlayJam is responsible for launching a new sensation on Kickstarter called GameStick. The device is being hailed as an Android-based micro-console, which already triggered massive support from people over on the ever-expanding crowd-funding service Kickstarter...

It appears that Frontier Developments' project Elite: Dangerous has garnered over £1,310,000 in funding, getting closer to its £1,500,000 stretch goal (the original goal was £1,250,000). Way to go, Frontier! Now, shut up and work, work, work! Oh yes, and apparently if they reach £1.5 mill, that means 10 more ships are going to be added the game (hm, ten more ships are worth £250k? Amazing. How the fuck does that economy work then?) Source.

Peter Molyneux is currently focused on his recently launched project, Curiosity (well, think of it as a social experiment, rather than an actual game). Apart from that, the well-known game designer (responsible for gaming classics such as Populous, Dungeon Keeper and Fable) has decided to hop on the Kickstarter bandwagon, presenting his new god-sim called, um, GODUS...

David Braben, one of the co-creators of the space sim classic Elite, has commenced a Kickstarter campaign in order to resurrect the once popular series. The Kickstarter campaign for Elite: Dangerous is set for a minimum of £1.25 million ($2 million approx...

Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts is working on a new project, Star Citizen, and now his team has launched a Kickstarter Campaign. As far we understand it, this will go alongside the fundraiser that already exists on the studio's official web site...

As we revealed, wow, more than two years ago, there's a new RPG in development and it's called Grim Dawn. Crate Entertainment, a development studio created by former Titan Quest devs, have begun their very own Kickstarter money quest to, hopefully, fund their ARPG (action role-playing game)...

You may have already heard that Double Fine Productions' and Eric Migicovsky over at Allerta, Inc. funded the development of their new adventure game with pre-orders. This particular system of funding a project seems to be catching on...