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Developer Lilith has blamed the recent shock cancellation of horror title Allison Road on a split with publishing partner Team 17. After a long consideration between Team17 and ourselves, we have reached a mutual agreement to end our collaboration on publishing Allison Road under Team17’s Games label,” Lileth said. Sometimes …
Read More »The £6m Guide to Crowdfunding
Planning to enter the scary world of crowdfunding? We collect the best advice from Playtonic’s Andy Robinson, ICO Partners’ Thomas Bideaux and Revolution’s Charles Cecil – whose projects have collectively raised more than £6m on Kickstarter – at this year’s Interface on positioning your campaign for success
Read More »Metal Gear Solid actor David Hayter would ‘love’ to develop a game – and here’s what he’d make
Voice of Solid Snake and Hollywood screenwriter highlights RPGs, Assassin’s Creed, Red Dead Redemption and Seth MacFarlane as inspirations, and rebuffs suggestion of crowdfunding campaign to finance project
Read More »‘Kickstarter is like an addiction’
Edge Case Games COO Chris Meher recalls the studio’s experience using the crowdfunding platform to finance Strike Suit Zero, and how being honest with its community was key to refining Fractured Space
Read More »Kickstarter game campaigns surpass $500m
$185m pledged to video games since crowdfunding platform began
Read More »UK Kickstarter has raised £100,000,000
The UK arm of crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has revealed that over 100m has been raised for projects since the site first launched in 2012. The money is the cumulative total of more than 1.8m pledges made by over 1.2m backers in the last four years. The average pledge was 53.80, …
Read More »Kickstarter UK has raised one hundred million pounds since 2012
Go on, try not to read that figure in his voice
Read More »Dark Souls board game crowdfunds £3.7m, is second-highest tabletop Kickstarter to date
Adaptation of From Software’s brutal RPG series is second only to the Exploding Kittens card game
Read More »Dark Souls Board Game passes £3.5m as it enters final stretch on Kickstarter
It was after just 50k. Now the creators of Dark Souls: The Board Game have seen their funding pass the 3.5m mark as the venture reaches the final few hours of its Kickstarter. Funding currently stands at 3,564,906 with four hours to go. And that total is raising every minute, …
Read More »Failed Kickstarter boss admits to spending funds on building house
As remarkable Kickstarter meltdowns go, this is probably the daddy. Back in 2013, Peachy Printer raised $651k to make what was being dubbed as the world’s first $100 3D printer. However, in a remarkable update, co-creator Rylan Grayston has claimed that partner and financial manager David Boe has spent $320k …
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