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Glasses wearers often face a choice – enjoy clear VR is discomfort or be comfortable at the expense of blurry visuals. A new Kickstarter wants to fix that. VR Lens Lab promises the option of adding prescription lenses to Samsung’s Gear VR headset, lettings users ditch their glasses completely when …
Read More »SOE’s Smedley launches new studio, Kickstarter for RPG Hero’s Song
The former boss of Sony Online Entertainment has announced the formation of a new studio and launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for an RPG. The studio, which is based in California, is called Pixelmage Games. Its first title, should it be funded, is pixel art RPG Hero’s Song. It’s looking …
Read More »Exploding Kittens ready to ignite on iOS
Record-breaking Kickstarter card game Exploding Kittens is about to make its video game bow. Tomorrow (Thursday January 21st) will see the release of Exploding Kittens on iOS. The title, developed by Seattle’s Substantial in conjunction with original creator Matthew Inman, will cost $1.99 in the US. Cosmetic microtransactions will also …
Read More »Video game Kickstarters raise $46m in 2015
More than 400 titles successfully crowdfunded by nearly half a million backers
Read More »Star Wars open-world RPG Kickstarter cancelled by 20-year-old creator
An impossible dream of creating a triple-A Star Wars RPG has, unsurprisingly, been cancelled by its creator. The pitch lit up parts of the internet earlier this week. With all the open world RPGs out there how is there not a good one for Star Wars?” it asked. I have …
Read More »Oculus giving free Rift to early Kickstarter backers
Just shy of 7,000 people to receive free headset
Read More »PayPal backers won’t get Shenmue 3’s Kickstarter rewards
Developer Ys Net has, thanks to what appears to be a bizarre data interpretation, decided that its PayPal backers will not be given the same treatment as its Kickstarter backers. The studio decided to poll fans over whether people who backed the game on PayPal after the end of its …
Read More »Revenue for Kickstarter games recovers in 2015 – report
Kickstarter games revenue has rebounded from its crash in 2014, according to a new report – though that hasn’t equated to more developers seeing success on the crowdfunding platform. A recent analysis by consultant Thomas Bidaux posted on Games Industry finds projects under Kickstarter’s games category brought in $41.6m thus …
Read More »$1m Kickstarter Project Phoenix delayed to 2018, no refunds offered
Developer Creative Intelligence Arts has said that its successfully crowdfunded RPG Project Phoenix now won’t arrive until 2018. Furthermore, the studio has said that displeased backers won’t be refunded. Current estimates place dev at about 2.5 years out from completion,” the studio said. This is 2.5 years from the time …
Read More »12% of video game Kickstarter campaigns fail to deliver
Around three quarters of disappointed backers willing to pledge towards another project
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