KickTraq

Two big wins this week and both are projects that I’ve been intrigued by since I first saw them. Lacuna Passage is the game about mysteries on Mars, using real topography of the Red Planet, and Satellite Reign is the Syndicate successor that promises an emergent cyberpunk city. Excellent news. (Read More)

Citing Kickstarter as a "harsh mistress," Pixelbionic has cancelled their pitch for MotorGun, their tune-up to the sparsely populated car-combat genre. (Read More)

Pixelbionic has cancelled its Kickstarter campaign for MotorGun, a post-apocalyptic team-based car combat game on which God of War creator David Jaffe and Interstate '76 creator Zack Norman were serving as creative advisors. The game had been targeted for release on PC, Mac and PS4 next October, but the campaign was axed eight days into its planned month-long run after generating less than a tenth of its $650,000 funding goal. (Read More)

Pixelbionic’s Kickstarter for vehicular carslaughter game MotorGun was curtailed twelve hours ago, having reached only 10% of their requested donations at $63,120 out of $650,000. (Read More)

Kickstarter is a harsh mistress. Lots of projects are pitched to the community and sometimes they resonate and sometimes they don’t. In this case, what we were pitching wasn’t exactly what you guys wanted.  So, as a result we’re making the... (Read More)

There have been plenty of weeks with no losers and several winners, but I can’t remember compiling this column and finding losers without winners to sit above them. There are lots of projects that are readying themselves for a spot in the winners’ section though, propped on the podium, parading their plaudits. Dungeonmans and Tangiers are my current favourites, with Monochroma not far behind. It’s a busy week though and there should be something for everyone. Except sports fans. Nothing for sports fans. Probably the least Kickstarted genre actually. Licensing issues to blame? (Read More)

Stretch Goals Like all good Kickstarter campaigns, we have a nice list of stretch goals. You know what these are, they are all the things we want to do, but can’t quite afford, so as more money comes in, we can add them to the project. (skip to the... (Read More)

God of War and Twisted Metal developer David Jaffe has joined Pixelbionic in launching a Kickstarter project to fund a car combat game. (Read More)

Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe has joined an indie studio for a car combat project that is seeking funding via Kickstarter. (Read More)

24 hours in and we’re very happy to see so many backers pledging. It’s great to see how excited everyone is about the Dream Team we’ve assembled. Just wait, you haven’t heard it all yet! We’ve had a lot of people ask us about PS4. I want to... (Read More)

Indie developer Pixelbionic has a lot going on this week: Its game gets a name change, a new designer behind the wheel, and a just-launched Kickstarter campaign seeking $650,000 in funding in the next 31 days. (Read More)