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Sportsfriends, the compilation of four local-multiplayer games from Die Gute Fabrik, will miss its previously announced release window of January 2014, the studio announced today. (Read More)

Four unreleased local-multiplayer games are now available to select backers of Die Gute Fabrik's Kickstarter drive for Sportsfriends, the studio announced over the weekend in an email to those backers. (Read More)

Get your hands on some of the best local co-op games on the indie scene – heck, anywhere – by buying in early to Sportsfriends. The Kickstarter-funded bundle contains a number of games you might have heard of if you pay attention to coverage of indie gamejams and festivals – Hokra, Super Pole Riders, BaraBariBall and the hilarious Johann Sebastian Joust. (Read More)

NEW YORK CITY, NY - Kickstarter will be kicking in ideas at this year's Ideas City festival in New York City which focuses on urban art and culture. (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)

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)

The true nature of crowd-funding is being obscured by big names and nostalgia. (Read More)