Daily Gaming: Gambitious Launches Crowd-funding Service Specifically For Games
Tuesday, 25th September 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: funded, funding, gambitious, game, games, industry, kickstarter, mushroom men, project
Written by: Craig Hunter
Over the last year Kickstarter has become a major player in the gaming industry giving interesting game ideas a chance to be produced without having to follow the traditional big business publishing model. Both larger and smaller independent game makers are getting there games funded through Kickstarter and now a new crowd-funding service, tailored soley to gaming, has been launched called Gambitious.
Created and funded by Paul Hanraets, Andy Payne, Harry Miller from Mastertronic and Mike Wilson from Devolver Digital, Gambitious “is the first professional crowdfunding platform exclusively dedicated to the games industry.” Continue reading “Daily Gaming: Gambitious Launches Crowd-funding Service Specifically For Games” »
Video Games Have Raised Over $50 Million On Kickstarter This Year
Monday, 10th September 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming, News
Tags: funding, indie, industry, kickstarter, money raised, video game projects
Written by: Paul Nyhart
We reported late last week that the internet was trying to solve why the video game industry had suddenly lost 12 million gamers.
Today we’re reporting (via an inital report on PC World) that the fundraising website Kickstarter has reported over $50 million dollars has been raised on projects related to video games. That makes it the second most funded category, moving up six spots from it’s previous spot, last year.
That number was undoubtedly boosted by the Ouya, an “Indie” console that eclipsed it’s fundraising goal of $950,000 by almost 1000%. It also received assists from Reaper’s Bones kickstarter and Double Fine Adventure, both received over $3.3 million respectively. Continue reading “Video Games Have Raised Over $50 Million On Kickstarter This Year” »
12-Year Old Building 17-inch Windows Tablet On Kickstarter
Friday, 17th February 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gadgets, Technology
Tags: 12-year old, 17-inch, DIY, funding, gaming, hardman, kickstarter, PC, project, tablet, windows
Written by: Craig Hunter
With tablets quickly taking over the PC market, one 12 year old from California is thinking about the bigger picture, literally. While the average size of a tablet’s display typically ranges from 5- to 10-inches, tech fanatic James Hardman is taking the tablet game up a notch with a 17-inch Windows-powered tab he plans on manufacturing.
With a goal of $50,000 in funding, Hardman turned to Kickstarter to realize his dreams and posted his plans for the 17-inch super tablet. Oh, and according to him, the device is 5.1x as powerful as iPad 2.
James spoke to Mashable regarding his overarching motivation behind the project.
“I personally love bigger screens,” says the 12 year old Hardman, “And I know other people did, too. I looked everywhere and nobody had anything Continue reading “12-Year Old Building 17-inch Windows Tablet On Kickstarter” »
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