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Read More »PayPal adjusts terms for crowdfunding campaigns
Online payment processing firm PayPal is working with crowdfunding creators to distinguish between campaigns that are pre-selling merchandise and those that are more strictly for fundraising. Chief risk officer Tomer Barel detailed the new rules via PayPal’s site, specifically highlighting that crowdfunding campaigns now may proceed without interruption of payment …
Read More »There are people who want you to crowdfund a plush Flappy Bird controller
What’s better than a free clone of Flappy Bird on iOS or Android? The answer: definitely not a clone that costs $15 and comes with a large fluffy Bluetooth controller. Nonetheless, that option is available to you thanks to a new crowdfunding venture from ZowPow. It’s called Flappy and is …
Read More »Star Citizen funding passes $40m
Chris Roberts' crowd-funded space exploration title generates $99 per backer
Read More »Papercraft Kickstarter aims to teach kids to code
Craft Computer Club to education children programming languages such as Scratch, Python and HTML5
Read More »Kenji Eno’s last game to be posthumously completed by dev fellows
Developer’s behind Aquanaut's Holiday and others plan to finish Kakexun with the help of crowdfunding
Read More »PrioVR gaming suit achieves crowdfunding goal
Full-body tracking suit aims to allow players to interact naturally with game worlds
Read More »Personal user details stolen in Kickstarter hack
No credit accord information accessed during security breach, claims CEO
Read More »Kickstarter recommends password reset after hack is confirmed
Crowdfunding giant Kickstarter has confirmed that it was last week the victim of a hack that compromised some user data. The breach occurred last Wednesday (February 12th) and saw hackers gain unauthorised access to some customer data including usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers and encrypted passwords. Fortunately, no …
Read More »Soshi Games raises £285,000 via crowdfunding
Investment to go toward expanding studio and operations
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