Can the current Kickstarter boom continue and will the presence of established businesses affect our willingness to offer up our cash? (Read More)

If you’ve crowdfunded anything before, chances are you’ve faced the Kickstarter catch-22: When a campaign earns enough hype (and consequently, a ton of backers), there’s inevitably a lengthy wait ahead of you. (Read More)

Double Fine has released a teaser for the game, dubbed Broken Age, as well as revealed the overarching plot. Like the Kickstarter promised, the game is of the point-and-click adventure variety. It will tell the stories of a young boy and girl that happen to be leading parallel lives, as the above imagery suggests. The boy leads a lonesome life on a spaceship and is under the care of a “motherly computer.” The girl, meanwhile, has been chosen by her village to be sacrificed to a monster. Though Tim Schafer and Double Fine have recently worked on some intentionally not comedic games, Broken Age seems like it’ll be a heart-wrenching tale. (Read More)

Broken Age is the company's new title, and it follows the parallel lives of a girl in a quaint village about to be sacrificed, and a boy in a spaceship bored with his life. Gameplay details are still thin ("Adventure ensues," Broken Age's website notes), but a trailer shows off the gorgeous storybook world that the game takes place in. (Read More)

Just over a year after the videogame Double Fine Adventure set records on Kickstarter, talk about the crowdfunding leader is in the air at GDC, the Game Developers Conference being held this week in San Francisco. On the conference’s first day, ICO Partners CEO Thomas Bidaux laid out “real numbers and trends” he had researched for indie game crowdfunding. He hastened to say upfront, though, that when he said “crowdfunding,” he really meant Kickstarter: “It’s so big, it’s basically the thing that’s relevant. … This is where it happens at the moment.” (Read More)

If you’re one of the many who backed Double Fine to the tune of $3.3 million when they asked for money to make a new adventure game, rejoice! It’s finally been named and revealed: Broken Age is the title, and a pretty, but sparse website has been launched. (Read More)

Double Fine’s Adventure game Kickstarter success could be pointed at as the catalyst that saw, and continues to see, game developers turn to the crowd funding website to get the public to raise funds for their projects. Who can blame them after Double Fine had over 87,000 backers, and almost $3.5 million pledged when the campaign ended in March last year. Now we have some new news on the project and that is a name change. Double Fine Adventure is no more. Instead the game is called Broken Age, which will be a point and click title about two very different characters, who are currently unnamed, leading very different lives. (Read More)

Double Fine has lift the lid on its long-awaited adventure game, which saw overwhelming support from fans via the crowd-funding site Kickstarter. Titled Broken Age the company promises it will be a point-and-click adventure game focusing on the story of a young boy and girl leading “parallel lives”. (Read More)

Kickstarter campaigns have been very popular for games since last year when Tim Schafer decided to use the crowdfunding platform to fund his upcoming point-and click adventure game. Kickstarter has announced on its blog that the money pledged to games on Kickstarter has crossed the $100 million milestone. (Read More)

The stampede to fund a Veronica Mars movie is "sort of like a perfect storm," according to Kickstarter co-founder and head of communications Yancey Strickler. (Read More)

The Top 5 crowd-funded projects on Kickstarter that have raked in over $1 million in donations. (Read More)

Tim Schafer says the reckless use of Kickstarter by the industry has added to the backlash against the crowdfunding platform. (Read More)

For about three years, between the ages of 12 and 15, I spent much of my free time on Internet forums devoted to the collectible-card game Magic: The Gathering. It became an obsession, consuming my mind and becoming the only thing I wanted to talk about. (Read More)

Three weeks early and $359,630 short, Bjork's Kickstarter project to make an Android version of the Icelandic superstar's iOS-only educational Biophilia app has been canceled because few people wanted to give charity to a rich person. (Read More)

Double Fine raised more than $3 million for Double Fine Adventure in 2012. OUYA, another Kickstarter star, will be the only game console to host the game this year. (Read More)

At the DICE 2013 conference Wednesday, Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman revealed that Tim Schafer’s Kickstarter-funded video game Double Fine Adventure will launch on the Android-based console. She added that Ouya will offer the only TV experience for the game, suggesting that Double Fine Adventure (internal codename: Reds) will not come to other home consoles. It will, however, be available for PC, Mac, and Linux, as well as Android and iOS devices. (Read More)

Ouya CEO Julia Uhrman confirmed the Double Fine adventure game code named "Reds" is coming to the new Android platform. (Read More)

How do you make a video game that no one seems to want anymore? Game developer Double Fine faced that conundrum at the end of 2011. The company wanted to make an old-school PC adventure game, the type that had made company founder Tim Schafer a game design legend in the 1990s with titles like Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango. But the genre’s market had seemingly dried up in favor of more visceral experiences like first-person shooters. Video game publishers—the companies like Activision and Electronic Arts that provide the funding, marketing and distribution channels for most games you see on the shelf—had become increasingly uninterested in taking risks or appeasing niche audiences with their releases. (Read More)

Last year's $1 million-plus video game Kickstarters share common reasons for their success. Plus, the developers share their campaign tips for 2013. (Read More)

WINNIPEG, MB -- The times are changing in the video game industry and it appears they are changing fast. If consumers were witness only to the seismic shift from physical to digital products, that would be one thing. Companies like Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony have been altering their service platforms for years now to address the increasing demand for downloadable content to either replace or at least reach parity with the up-till-now unquestioned store-bought, hard copy business model. In the past year or so, however, gamers have begun to see changes not only in how they get their video games but also how those games are actually made. (Read More)

It wasn’t the most auspicious start to a crowdfunding campaign. Two hours before the Kickstarter page had even gone up, rumours of Total Annihilation and Dungeon Siege designer Chris Taylor’s new game, Wildman, had surfaced on news sites. The game, a brave hybrid of RPG, RTS, hack-and-slash and MOBA is aiming for a modest budget of $1.1 million, meaning it’ll need around $35,000 a day to make its target. (Read More)

A Kickstarter campaign for Pathfinder Online, an online role-playing video game from Seattle-based Goblinworks Inc., surpassed its $1 million funding goal today, just five hours before the deadline. The crowdfunding campaign opened in November. To learn more about Pathfinder Online and its successful Kickstarter campaign, we posed a few questions via email to Goblinworks CEO Ryan Dancey. (Read More)

Kickstarter reports that its 2.2 million members pledged more than $319 million in 2012, up 221 percent from the year before. But more striking, perhaps, is the scale of some of Kickstarter’s latest success stories. While no project had raised $1 million at this time last year, 17 projects passed that mark in 2012. (Read More)

What a year Kickstarter had in 2012. Tim Schafer's Double Fine kicked the crowd-funding website into orbit back in March, raising more than $3 million to make an old-school adventure game. (Read More)

From groundbreaking projects to inspiring stories, 2012 was a year of many memorable moments on Kickstarter. To celebrate the year that was, our team put together this look back at some of our favorite projects and moments. We hope you enjoy! (Read More)

It almost goes without saying that we love crowdfunded projects. If we use Kickstarter's 2012 wrap-up as a bellwether, there's many others out there like us. The number of successful projects shot up 53 percent last year to 18,109, and generated $274 million from pledges to projects that met their targets -- that's about 2.7 times more just in successful contributions than was raised in total for 2011, It's not hard to understand why if you've been following along. (Read More)

After game projects like Double Fine Adventure and Star Citizen raised millions on Kickstarter, the video game industry became acutely aware of the crowdfunding website’s money-raising powers. Still, most game projects don’t dare ask for more than around $500,000. The collective wisdom seems to suggest that projects shouldn’t ask for too much because Kickstarters that fail to reach their goals get no money at all. (Read More)

In February 2012, an iPhone dock became the first Kickstarter campaign to raise more than a million dollars. It was an impressive feat, but just one month later, that record was smashed by a gaming project. Tim Schafer and Double Fine's Kickstarter campaign raised $3.3 million, and prompted an explosion in videogame crowdfunding. (Read More)

It’s been a crazy year for independent games development, but there a few stories larger than the influence that so-called “crowdfunding” has had on the industry, mostly via Kickstarter. (Read More)

If 38 Studios was the mainstream game industry story of the year, then crowdfunding site Kickstarter is indisputably the industry watcher's story of the year. (Read More)

Three years in, has Kickstarter lived up to its promise to disrupt entrepreneurship and artistic patronage? We look at some of the top Kickstarter projects from 2012 to find out. (Read More)

Kickstarter is a place where entrepreneurs and artists can post ideas and raise money from other users. (Read More)

It was definitely the year of the game on Kickstarter. (Read More)

Remember when games were made and then sold? Some people don't, and it's changing the future of game publishing for the future. Complex.com: The original buyer's guide for men. (Read More)

For many creative folks out there, Kickstarter has become a viable way to get funding for projects that otherwise wouldn't have the chance to see the... (Read More)

Peter Molyneux had started a Kickstarter campaign earlier this month. Recently, the campaign was finished with the game—Project Godus—being fully funded. At the time of writing, the game h (Read More)

It's difficult to recall a time before Kickstarter's game industry prominence, but just twelve short months ago the crowdfunding website had a considerably lower profile. (Read More)

The Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter has done more than simply fund Tim Schafer’s next game, or bring the idea of crowd-funding into the public eye. It taught the veteran developer the value of transparency, something he has compared to his comparatively shrouded work history at Lucasarts. Schafer has even compared the Lucasart’s method to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory during lockdown. See what he means by that below the fold. (Read More)

Double Fine Productions’ Tim Schafer was invited to host this year’s Umloud event in San Francsico, where bands playing Harmonix’ Rock Band 3 music-rhythm game compete against each other for money and fame. Actually, money and fame are tied for a distant second behind helping to raise funds for the Child’s Play charity. In fact, there is little to no money and fame involved. (Read More)

Update : Our regularly revised feature keeps you up to date on the Kickstarter games worth watching, and helps you track projects both before and after they’re funded. New this week is a horror game set underground, a space-based strategy game for iOS, and an open-source console/controller. (Read More)

One of the most powerful tools in your arsenal as a project owner is cross-promotion. Cross-promotion comes in many forms and in the crowdfunding space with an emphasis on supporting projects and word-of-mouth, it’s a golden opportunity if you can work with another successful project to effectively promote your own project or cross-promote one another. (Read More)

While whipping up some numbers for a fun contest Aaron over at Custora is running against his own Pebble data, I noticed something tonight is very familiar to my eyes. (Read More)

I’m seeing a couple of recurring questions in various discussions or project comments. As soon as a new, popular project shows up on Kicktraq that looks (at that moment) like it’s trending to do millions of dollars, one of 2 people show up: (Read More)