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As Banner Saga 3 sails past its Kickstarter goal of $200,000 in less than a week, Stoic’s technical director John Watson has told MCV that the series as a whole would not exist without the support of crowd-funding. "Banner Saga, really, is an improbable game," Watson tells us. "It is unique …
Read More »Obsidian announces Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire on Fig
Obsidian Entertainment has announced a new sequel to its smash hit RPG, Pillars of Eternity, and that it will be taking to crowd-funding and investment platform Fig to help finance the project. Entitled Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, the project has already met 86 per cent of its funding goal …
Read More »Fig to expand number of crowd-funding projects after raising $7.8m in VC finance
Crowdfunding and investment platform Fig has announced it’s secured $7.84m of funding in its first round of venture capital financing, a sum the company says will allow it to expand the number of game projects it can host going forward. VC firms Spark Capital and Greycroft led the round of …
Read More »Crowdfunded Wasteland 3 reaches goal in three days
24 days still left on the Fig campaign, stretch goals added
Read More »InXile ditches Kickstarter for Fig in Wastleand 3 crowdfunding push
Sequel to revived post-apocalyptic adventure aims to raise $2.75m
Read More »Bleszinski invests in crowdfunding platform Fig
New crowdfunding platform Fig has revealed it has received support from another notable developer: Cliff Bleszinski. The man best known for creating Gears of War has invested in the platform and offered help to set up new projects – when he’s not developing his new studio’s debut title Lawbreakers, of …
Read More »Cliff Bleszinski latest big name dev to invest in Fig
Lawbreakers and Gears of War creator joins ahead of latest campaign conclusion
Read More »Consortium sequel off to strong start on Fig
PC sci-fi curiosity Consortium has taken a large stride toward receiving a sequel. Interdimensional Games has launched a Fig campaign to crowdfund the title. It’s after $300k, and just a couple of days in has already won pledges totally just under $200k. Consortium was released in 2014. On the face …
Read More »Harmonix cancels Rock Band 4 PC after disappointing Fig campaign
Crowdfunding push shows there is not enough of an audience to justify port
Read More »Harmonix cancels Rock Band 4 PC, ‘disappointed’ game missed crowdfunding goal
Developer Harmonix has ditched the PC version of Rock Band 4. The firm announced this on its Fig page for the project, observing that there isn’t a large enough audience to make developing for this platform viable. This follows Harmonix’s crowdfunding effort for Rock Band 4 and the Rock Band …
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