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Denis Dyack Denies Long-standing Allegations In Defence of Precursor Kickstarter Project (video)

May 20th - via: ausgamers.com
Precursor Games' ambtious Kickstarter project to create a spiritual successor to Eternal Darkenss has been hampered by negative reports of the developer's former studio Silicon Knights --predominantly, some rather serious allegations made in an article on Kotaku following the launch of the ill-received X-Men Destiny. (Read More)
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Among the Sleep Closes Its Kickstarter Campaign with Almost $50k More Than Its Goal

May 19th - via: screencrush.com
We love seeing indie games get a ton of love and support on Kickstarter, so we were glad to hear that Among the Sleep, Krillbite Studio’s PC horror game that’s played from the perspective of a two-year-old, successfully closed out its campaign this weekend. What’s more is that they received $248,358, which is almost $50,000 more than their intended $200,000 goal, meaning that a slew of their stretch goals were achieved as well! (Read More)
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Wooden Pinhole Cameras Make Old-School Techniques Cool Again (video)

May 19th - via: mashable.com
Digital cameras are great, but like most electronics, they likely won't withstand the test of time in, say, a century from now. So Slovenian industrial designer and self-taught carpenter Elvis Halilović developed pinhole cameras that he and his brother make out of locally-harvested chestnut and maple wood. The ONDU Pinhole Cameras, as Halilović has branded them, were created in six different dimensions and sizes, as further explained in the video above. The designs can accommodate everything from 35mm to 4-by-5-inch film to even larger paper. (Read More)
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Tezuka's Crater in English Gets 280+ Pre-Orders on Kickstarter

May 19th - via: animenewsnetwork.com
Kansai Club Publishing's Kickstarter campaign for the English release of Osamu Tezuka's The Crater manga has over 280 preorders as of Sunday. Kansai Club is only publishing 2,000 copies of the short story collection. The manga has not previously been published in English. (Read More)

Melon, the headband that helps you track your focus

May 19th - via: t3.com
Melon is an EEG headband and mobile app that helps your measure your focus and brain activity. The Kickstarter page sells the headband as having the ability to, "gain insight into how your mind works by tracking your focus during any activity you choose." (Read More)

Alanis Morissette Boards Kickstarter Project ‘Price of Desire’

May 18th - via: variety.com
Alanis Morissette and Shannyn Sossamon have been cast in “The Price of Desire,” a new romantic period drama based on the life of architect Eileen Gray that’s getting a little extra help from Kickstarter – but in an unexpected way. (Read More)

Rob Liefeld Kickstarter: Comic book artist hopes to get 'Brigade' revived

May 18th - via: examiner.com
A Rob Liefeld Kickstarter program proves that it is not only movie stars who want to use the platform to help them get their work made. According to MTV.com on May 17, comic book artist Rob Liefeld is hoping Kickstarter can help him get his "Brigade" comic rolling once again. (Read More)
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Fallout 4 release on Xbox 720 and PS4 delayed because of Wasteland 2?

May 18th - via: gawdalmighty.com
At $60 a pop, consumers paid roughly $900,000,000 to play the game. Not all that money goes back to Bethesda, but it still shows the massive market the game had. Wasteland 2 has had around $3,000,000 worth of interest. Now, that number will go up when the final product is complete and people who did not fund WL2 can purchase the game, but I don’t think we’ll see a huge increase. That’s the thing with kickstarter, it’ll show you how much your target audience is willing to pay. (Read More)
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10-foot-tall Robocop statue coming to Detroit (video)

May 18th - via: wjactv.com
The 10-foot-tall Robocop statue is making progress for the 2014 unveiling. The city of Detroit could be getting its very own statue of 'Robocop'.Initially the project debuted on Kickstarter.com in 2011. The designers aimed for a $50,000 goal and actually ended up surpassing that amount. Although the statue is not done yet, Fred Barton is the name behind the elaborate sculpting. Across The Board Creations is the company responsible for the digital enlarging and fabrication. (Read More)
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Duo raises more than $31,000 through an Internet platform to open a craft brewery in Dubuque

May 18th - via: thonline.com
A fledgling craft brewery will get a significant kickstart, owners announced Friday. Jay Jubeck, owner of Jubeck New World Brewing Co., said more than $31,000 has been raised via Internet crowd funding platform Kickstarter. The money will be used to open a brewery and a taproom in Dubuque in the near future. (Read More)
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Anamanaguchi Announce Summer 2013 Tour Dates Following Successful Kickstarter Campaign

May 18th - via: mxdwn.com
Anamanaguchi have announced a summer tour in support of a new album. The self proclaimed “boy band” of hackers and producers, will kick off the tour in their home-town of New York City. (Read More)

Review: AL13 raises the bar for iPhone bumper design

May 18th - via: appleinsider.com
Designed by m has managed to craft one of the most exquisite and well designed iPhone bumpers we've ever seen — in fact "bumper" seems too unrefined a descriptor — but one flaw could mar for some people what is otherwise a nearly perfect companion to Apple's smartphone. (Read More)

Pebble raises $15 million as it celebrates full-duplex transfers and its one-year anniversary

May 18th - via: mobilesyrup.com
A few nights ago in San Francisco, Pebble’s founder and CEO Eric Migicovsky recounted the last year of Pebble’s existence. He admitted there were many things that could have been done differently, and if he had to do it over again he’d lower the number of colour choices, but is otherwise enthused for the future of wearable technology. (Read More)

Among the Sleep Kickstarter ends nearly $50k beyond its target

May 18th - via: joystiq.com
Krillbite Studio's first-person baby simulator/horror game Among the Sleep has completed its 30-day Kickstarter campaign, raising a grand total of $248,358 from 8,110 backers – nearly $50,000 more than the $200,000 fundraising goal originally set. (Read More)
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Artifact Red-X Strategy Game relies on Kickstarter Campaign

May 18th - via: capsulecomputers.com.au
Tier2games have decided to release the final stage of their new strategy game on Kickstarter and put their faith in gamer’s to determine the outcome of Artifact Red-X, set for PC and iOS. (Read More)

17 Pieces - Kickstarter for short stories collection

May 18th - via: sosogay.co.uk
Literature, like many other entertainment mediums, can tend to underrepresent members of the LGBT community, so when the opportunity comes along to support a project like ’17 Pieces’ it’s definitely worth considering. (Read More)
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'Hex: Shards of Fate' announces more stretch goals

May 18th - via: examiner.com
Cryptozoic, the company beind the upcoming Massively Multiplayer Online Trading Card Game (MMOTCG) “Hex: Shards of Fate”, has revealed more stretch goals today on the games Kickstarter page. Hex backers have been meeting and exceeding the stretch goals put in place by Cryptozoic. With the project just yesterday having its highest pledge day yet at $114,000 on the 10th day of the campaign, it does not seem like the project is showing signs of slowing anytime soon. (Read More)
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Deadzone clears the $500K Mark!

May 18th - via: lxg-blog.blogspot.com
It has surpassed $500K, and eclipsed more backers than any other kickstarter Mantic Games have run to date... and it has fifteen days to go. So, this one is officially getting interesting! Mantic has a bona fide winner on its hands with the Deadzone. This kickstarter is huge in the scope of what it's offering to gamers- regardless of if you intend to play Deadzone as a boardgame or not. (Read More)

Spend a moment in time with this Jagged Alliance: Flashback diorama

May 18th - via: pcgamer.com
Museums like to use the phrase “frozen in time” to describe dinosaur bones and stuffed dead things, but in the case of Jagged Alliance: Flashback, the term’s not a euphemism from “dead.” Far from it! The gang behind the still-running Kickstarter have released what they call a “gameplay scene”—imagine you’ve hit a pause button mid-battle, enabling you to explore the scene without fear of getting pulverized. And if movement’s not your thing, there are some handy screenshots available as well. (Read More)
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Meta 1 augmented reality headset fully detailed on Kickstarter

May 17th - via: slashgear.com
Earlier this morning, we posted about the Meta 1 augmented reality headset — a rather unique pair of glasses that lets you play around with virtual 3D objects in the real world. Being right on schedule, the project has officially hit Kickstarter, with the goal of raising 100 grand in just 30 short days. (Read More)

Nikola Tesla fan Dorrian Porter turns to Kickstarter to place a statue in Silicon Valley

May 17th - via: mercurynews.com
Maybe Bill Hewlett, David Packard or Steve Jobs seem more statue-worthy to you, but entrepreneur Dorrian Porter says Silicon Valley could learn a lot from Nikola Tesla. And he’s working to put up a statue to keep Tesla top of mind. (Read More)

Formlabs ships first Form 1 3D printer, Kickstarter backers should see theirs next week

May 17th - via: engadget.com
Some might say it's been a long, long while since October -- with "some" referring to the swath of Kickstarter backers who've been waiting oh-so-patiently for a Form 1 to call their own. Formlabs has just confirmed via a company blog post that the very first Form 1 3D printer shipped out today, as the Collector's Edition Form 1 and half of the Initial Formation tier of pledges hopped on a variety of delivery trucks. The rest of you backers can expect to begin printing "by the end of next week." For those keeping count, the Form 1 is actually a few months behind schedule, but in all honesty, that's pretty good considering the up-and-down nature of crowdfunded projects that manage to find the limelight. (Read More)

Rob Liefeld looks to revive ‘Brigade,’ with help from Kickstarter

Borrowing a page from Top Cow’s 2012 resurrection of Cyber Force, Rob Liefeld has turned to Kickstarter to help relaunch his 1990s Image Comics series Brigade. His goal is to raise $17,500 in order to offer the first issue for free; in less than 24 hours, he’s already generated $6,775 in pledges. (Read More)
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Gracie’s Gear on Kickstarter – A Heartwarming American Comeback

May 17th - via: crowdfundingeye.com
This is my first time with crowd funding. What’s amazing to me about Kickstarter is that it’s really like running a race. But this is a race where no matter how hard to train, how hard you prepare or how hard you run… it all doesn’t really matter. In this race, it’s the fans that cheer you who decide whether or not you cross that finish line. Without fans, you’re alone. (Read More)

Nexeon Technologies Face of Mankind: Fall of the Dominion Q and A

May 17th - via: igameresponsibly.com
Face of Mankind is a Third Person Sandbox MMO that launched officially on August 31st 2006. It was the product of Duplex Systems under the watchful eye of Marko Dieckmann. However, in 2007 a malicious DDoS attack was levied against the Face of Mankind portal, and resulted in major damage to Face of Mankind’s financial venture. In 2008 it was announced that Face of Mankind would be developed in cooperation between Duplex and Nexeon Technologies, Nexeon provided the hosting service Face of Mankind utilized. (Read More)

A Zombie Is You: Ray’s The Dead Trailllllerrrr

May 17th - via: rockpapershotgun.com
Sometimes a pun appears that is so bad that it manages to elevate all other culture. I’ve tried and failed many times to create such a pun in my lab, and the many RPS comment threads are probably ground zero of several pun epidemics that have taken their toll on the world. It’s over. We failed. I’ve discovered a pun so grotesquely awful that even Simon Cowell’s TV shows and celebrity biographies with the word “Dream” in the title have just taken one step up on the culture-o-meter. Ray’s The Dead, a Pikmin-like strategy game about a zombie called Ray and his undead friends, has just made the world a better place. (Read More)
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Jagged Alliance: Flashback gets frozen diorama scene, new screens

May 17th - via: vg247.com
Jagged Alliance: Flashback developer Full Control has six days of Kickstarter funding left, and has released a neat Unity-powered diorama, letting you scroll around a scene from the turn-based game’s actual gameplay. (Read More)
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Carman Announces 60-City Tour After Raising More Than $200K on Kickstarter

May 17th - via: christianpost.com
Carman Domenic Licciardello, the popular recording artist and Christian evangelist who revealed a cancer diagnosis earlier this year, shared with fans that he has surpassed the $200,000 goal for his Kickstarter campaign to launch a new record, music video and tour. (Read More)
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Coralbots will restore and rebuild damaged coral reefs

May 16th - via: itworld.com
Coralbots aim to be a team of robots that navigate across a damaged coral reef and transplant pieces of healthy coral in the process. (Read More)

Royal Optik. The new piece of art from Uusi

May 16th - via: maxplayingcards.com
As I told you some weeks ago, Uusi has prepared their new piece of art: Royal Optik. No need to say it will be a stunning deck, like Peter and Linnea’s previous creations (Blue Blood and Bohemia). Uusi’s inspiration for this deck came from their love of wood cut prints and a curiosity they have in geometric, eye-bending Op Art imagery. Both use negative space to create volume and movement but differ greatly in how they express it. They chose the wood cut style for the faces of the court because it has such an expressive, traditional quality to it and used the more precise patterns of op art to create the shapes, postures and costumes of the court characters. (Read More)
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We're Making T-Shirts. Lots And Lots Of T-Shirts

May 15th - via: wwno.org
We used Kickstarter because it helped us answer a very important question: How many t-shirts should we make? And, for that matter, were there even enough people who wanted a Planet Money t-shirt to make the project viable? If we were going to make the shirts, we needed at least 2,000 backers at $25 a piece, for a total of $50,000. (Read More)
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Firefly Pick with LED Light (Guitarsite)

May 15th - via: guitarsite.com
The Firefly Pick produces LED light with every pick attack, it is currently a Kickstarter project by Capcitron. This pick is designed to be a cool visual effect that guitar players can use to enhance their live performance, or to simply have fun. We've all seen glow in the dark and light up picks, but the Firefly pick takes that to another level by being able to respond to your technique. The LED light inside the pick will light up every time you move the pick, which results in a rhythmic light show that matches the music you are playing. (Read More)
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Food Fights, Automobiles, and The Princess Bride

May 15th - via: casualgamerevolution.com
Alright, folks...we've scoured the crowdfunding web and selected several of the most notable casual games. There's quite a bit of variety this month, so enjoy! (Read More)

tim-E iPhone Alarm Clock

May 15th - via: ubergizmo.com
Are you one of those who happen to crawl through the myriad of devices and projects that crowd sourcing website Kickstarter each day in an attempt to locate something strange and yet cool? Well, the humble alarm clock has come a long way since its early beginnings, and we have even seen a flying alarm clock more than half a dozen years back. Well, fast forward to today, and you have the tim-E iPhone alarm clock that is now a Kickstarter project. (Read More)

Humanity's Best Hope?: A Sneak Peek at Galaxy Defenders

May 15th - via: thegaminggang.com
With less than a week to go in the Kickstarter project for Galaxy Defenders, from Ares Games, I thought it would be a good time to take a sneak peek at the game. I received a demo edition of GD late last week and it’s important to keep in mind my evaluation is based on a preview edition and not anything that’s remotely the same quality of production which will be found in the finished product. Needless to say I believe we can expect the same top notch work as we’ve seen from Ares Games in the past when GD ships to backers and hits the market. (Read More)

Tiptop Bluetooth Speaker Blurs the Line Between Portable & Integrated

May 15th - via: technologytell.com
Alex Walker, Jack Brody, and Madeleine Thompson are all fourth-year product design students at the Stanford D.School. During the course’s capstone class, the trio teamed up to take a single concept from ideation to realization, and after a few false starts, inspiration emerged from the void--specifically, the empty, unused interior space where walls and ceiling meet. Tiptop is their finished product (currently in Kickstarter mode), a triangular bluetooth speaker that positions snugly in the corner, maximizing acoustics and making your sweet, sweet music sound even better. (Read More)

Holdfast: A Gamebook of Dwarven Vengeance

May 15th - via: igameresponsibly.com
When I hear the phrase “Gamebook” or CYOA (choose your own adventure) it incites a strong nostalgic feeling within me. I recall long summer days engorging myself with the likes of Daredevil Park and Time Machine 5 until I ran out of options to choose. The gamebook genre is what first introduced me to the RPG. The navigation of an adventure on my own terms is what draws me to fantastic action RPG’s like Fallout, Mass Effect and Skyrim. (Read More)

Lumi Wine Wall Looks To Upcycle Used Wine Casks With Kickstarter Campaign

May 15th - via: geardiary.com
I’ve got a fairly decent size wine collection, but I wouldn’t call what I do with my bottles “cellaring.” That implies that I’m intentionally saving it for a future date when the wine has matured or perhaps become more valuable. The hundred or so bottles of good juice that are in various racks and shelves around my house are merely bottles I haven’t drunk yet. I’ll get to you soon enough, my pretties! (Read More)

Help Restore Coral Reefs by Funding Coral-Bots!

May 15th - via: aquaviews.net
Coral reefs are one of the world’s most important ecosystems, but they often get the shaft due to not being immediately visible at the surface. With over 500 million people worldwide dependent on their health and stability, they are a sector of nature that humanity cannot afford to lose. However, coral reefs face a number of threats from both natural and man-made sources, and if we mean to keep using them to our advantage, we have no other choice but to intervene for their survival. (Read More)

Ray’s the Dead wants to cure zombie fatigue with a dash of…Pikmin?

May 15th - via: penny-arcade.com
Hey look, it's another zombie game! The Walking Dead adventure game may have won nearly all the Game of the Year awards in 2012, but the genre feels saturated, stagnant, and tapped out. So what do we get from yet another entry into the world of zombie video games? (Read More)
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