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Man who helped shape genre heading to Kickstarter for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen

Elite Systems has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a hardware homage to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The re-launch will actually be a Bluetooth keyboard, initially for iOS, in the form-factor of a 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum. 60,000 is being sought. When used in conjunction with the simultaneously released and separately …

Crowdfunding site's 2013 figures show games have biggest payouts despite unlikeliness of success

Kickstarter game projects currently make up $200.4m of the $919m total raised since the crowdfunding site launched in 2009. The figure is split among 7,922 successfully funded game projects, along with the 4,933 projects that failed to meet their goals – with the majority of the latter group unable to …

South Park developer's attention turns to future projects, Alpha Protocol sequel ruled out

Japanese publisher terminates crowdfunding campaign over copyright ownership

Stormlord Games hits Kickstarter under the helm of Eve producer Mike Wallis

British video game development legend Charles Cecil believes there is no going back from the wave of crowd-funding brought about by Kickstarter – but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. "Kickstarter and crowdfunding will change, and it is changing," he warned during his keynote speech at London Games Conference 2013. …

Revolution founder and Broken Sword creator celebrates the new relationship between developers and avid fans

Co-founder of crowd-funding site takes over as current chief exec becomes Chairman