Brian Fargo has a decent claim to be winning at Kickstarter. After all, his company, inXile Entertainment, set the record for the largest sum requested with the appeal to fund Wasteland 2, and is now in the final throes of a second multi-million dollar funding run. (Read More)

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)

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)

Something that has become readily apparent over the last six or so month is that crowdfunding has become both the salvation and the refuge of “risky” gaming ventures. I use the term risky advisedly, hence the inverted commas. I don’t mean risky in terms of hard to achieve or of dubious legality, but rather those projects that are deemed too risky for major publishers to want to touch. (Read More)

In 2012, UK editor Mike Rose backed a total of 18 game projects on Kickstarter, pledging more than $300. In 2013, he can't really see himself backing anything via the crowdfunding platform. (Read More)

Kickstarter is something of a double-edged sword. It allows for folks to put money in the hands of creators, but sometimes those creators don't manage to get things together and the project falls by the wayside. There's been some particularly notable Kickstarter campaigns when it comes to video games, and the one for Wasteland 2 is definitely one of biggest. The developers just released the first footage of gameplay today. (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)

Traditional publisher system failed to realise Brian Fargo's dream of developing Wasteland 2 until Kickstarter gave gamers the chance at crowd funding. Wasteland 2's Brian Fargo is a keen advocate of the Kickstarter revolution and believes it removes any of the usual compromises put in place by publishers. (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)

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)

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

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)

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)

Brian Fargo was at the forefront of the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter, one of the most successful pledging rallys the service has seen. He's also been one of its biggest supporters, compelling a number of successful projects to vow they'll donate 5% of their profits to Kickstarter campaigns, keeping the cycle going. Fargo's so taken by the benefits of Kickstarter that he's said he will return to Kickstarter with future projects, even if Wasteland 2 made enough money to fund a new project. (Read More)

Take a look at Project Eternity, potential fantasy RPG and Kickstarter concept of the hour. At the time of writing, it has long since reached its minimum target and nears $1.8 million in funding, where stretch goals promise development of a new playable race, class, and companion. At $2 mil there’ll be a player house; at $2.2 mil, Linux support. Stretch goals beyond $2.4 mil are TBA, but momentum is such that developer Obsidian couldn’t be blamed for tentatively writing them up this afternoon. Yet in the world of groundswell publishing, not all pledges are equal. Amongst the 43,089 backers Project Eternity has amassed to date, less than 100 are responsible for 8% of the development budget. Of that near-$1.8 million total, these 93 backers have together offered $141,000 - in some cases, more than $10,000 each. (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)