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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)