The Kickstarter-funded The Wonderful 101 Remastered raised over $2.1 million from fans and is fully funded. However, it’s now closed. But fans can still get in on the fun as pre-orders just opened for a physical standard edition. So while you’ll miss out on extras like a physical comic book, Centinels ID card, artbook, vinyl … Read more
Kickstarter has become the first major technology company to unionize. Employees of the crowdfunding website voted in favor of forming a union on Tuesday. The vote was a culmination of 18 months of organizing. Kickstarter has proven to be quite popular with indie game developers as a crowdfunding platform for their projects. According to NBC … Read more
Roughly two years after first announcing the project, indie studio Ink Stains Games is set to release the turn-based role-playing game Stoneshard in Steam Early Access next month. Last week, the developers released a new batch of screenshots and confirmed the February 6 Early Access date. The Kickstarter-funded project looked interesting to me, so I invited the … Read more
Bug Academy is a cute and crazy new 2.5D arcade-style game out now for PC via Steam. It’s coming soon to Nintendo Switch. The game has players train bugs – everything from flies and fireflies to mosquitoes and bees. It covers typical situations of insect life, such as guarding animals in pastures, working in mines, … Read more
A new board game based on Divinity: Original Sin 2 is in the works and just won funding from fans through Kickstarter. Divinity: Original Sin – The Board Game is a “cooperative, narrative-focused tabletop game about adventure, bravery and friendship,” Larian Studios said in a press release announcing the game. The developer of the video … Read more
The physical release of A Hat in Time on Nintendo Switch has been pushed back until November 8 “due to a manufacturing delay.” Publisher Humble Bundle says that the delay of the physical version will not affect the digital release, which is still planned for October 18. A Hat in Time is a platform action-adventure first … Read more
Mighty Number 9 has a new release date. Deep Silver announced today that the fan-funded game, which raised nearly $4 million on Kickstarter, will be out on February 9, 2016 across last-gen and next-gen consoles as well as PC, Mac and Linux. Mighty Number 9 is a Mega Man inspired side-scrolling action game from Keiji … Read more
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse is out now on Xbox One with a PS4 version set to launch next week. The game was fan funded through Kickstarter with more than $770,000 raised to support the project. It was first released in 2013 on the PC as an episodic series. The console version encompasses both … Read more
Have you ever wanted to invest in a video game project? Crowdfunding websites like Kickstarter let you support games that you like but they do not let you invest in the traditional sense. That’s about to change. Fig is a crowdfunding website dedicated specifically to video games that will allow micro-investors to reap the reward … Read more
The fan-funded Mega Man clone Mighty No. 9 has been delayed. The game is the brainchild of Keiji Inafune — the main illustrator of the original Mega Man on the NES. It received four times the the original goal of its Kickstarter campaign. Mighty No. 9 was scheduled for a September 15, 2015 launch date. … Read more
I grew up playing video games in arcades. Chuck E Cheese was a favorite hangout with its mix of arcade video games and carnival games. Hours were spent using up tokens and collecting tickets for prizes. My dad probably spent hundreds of dollars over the years at Chuck E Cheese alone. The early 90s was … Read more
