Square Enix have officially unveiled Square Enix Collective, a new crowd funding program in partnership with Indiegogo, which allows teams of developers to campaign for money to develop a game with. Collective will allow users to post ideas, which is then voted on by the community over a 28-day period.…

SpecialEffect are a UK based charity which aims to help the disabled play video games like everyone else. In efforts to help more people access the medium SpecialEffect have launched a crowdfunding project on website Gambitious. The project is to create a new controller which makes use of eye movement…

A recent post from the Mighty No.9's Kickstarter page has revealed that the amazing composer Takashi Tateishi, who worked on some of the old Mega Man titles, has joined the team to work on some music for Mighty No. 9: "We know Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest,…

Precursor Games have sadly announced that development on Shadow Of The Eternals has been put on indefinite hiatus. This is primarily down to all of the developers making the game out of their own pocket, after numerous failed crowdfunding attempts. Part sequel, part spiritual successor to the 2002 horror game…

Holding the title for being the most crowd-funded project ever, big things are expected of Star Citizen. Cloud Imperium Games has big things planned, with new stretch goals continuously being churned out to give people incentives to keep throwing money at them, and it is working. Reaching the mark of…

Divine Divinity isn't the most catchy of names, but such was the name of the first title in the Divinity series. The kickstarter title, Divinity: Original Sin, will be the fifth game in a series strangely fascinated by dragons. When the game smashed its Kickstarter goal of $400,000, with a…

An Indiegogo campaign to fund a fan-made movie of indie game cult hit, Hotline Miami, has reached its final 48 hours. It still has a way to go however, with only $8,580 raised towards the $50,000 target. Hotline Miami itself was heavily influenced by 2011 movie Drive, with similarities between…

Ever wanted to get into Warhammer 40K, but found things like money and painting got in the way? Ever wished complex boardgames came with a small man who refereed games so you didn't have to read 100 page books before playing? Harebrained Schemes have, and want their latest project Golem…

Star Citizen, the PC-exclusive persistent-world space shooter, underwent a Kickstarter campaign in 2012, during which it asked for $500,000. It originally smashed that goal and ended up with over $2 million. The crowdfunding initiative continued past the Kickstarter campaign, with backers able to continue pledging to the project via the…

Shadowrun Returns is the first major Kickstarter game to be released since crowdfunding became popular amongst developers wanting to try something different. Bringing back the tabletop series to the virtual world, is it a good game with old-school sensibilities, or can you not teach old dogs new tricks? What is…

Project Phoenix is a Kickstarter unlike any you ever will have seen. It features talented individuals form all corners of the game industry (with credits including several Final Fantasies, The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Valkyria Chronicles, L.A. Noire, Diablo III, Halo 4, Crysis 3, the list goes on) coming together to…

The Doom That Came To Atlantic City launched last year on kickstarter, and it smashed its $35,000 goal with a final total of $122,874. With that amount of money you would expect The Forking Path to be able to deliver the board game at the very least, but sadly not.…

 "Taking the epic video game Final Fantasy VII and creating a live-action web series with amazing talent from across the globe!" Final Fantasy VII: The Web Series is a fan project dedicated to bringing the characters, events, and excitement seen in the iconic Final Fantasy VII into a live-action web…

Today on American McGee's Kickstarter page to bring Alice to the big screen, they have announced the director for their short films. Tsui Hark, Chinese writer, director and producer will be at the helm to direct the short-films should the Kickstarter be a success. Now don't worry if you haven't heard that…

The guys over at Ouya are trying their best to give gamers more of a push to lay down £99.99 for their android based console. With many of the complaints being that the console has no games, Ouya is attempting to rectify this by tempting devs on crowd-funding sites. "The…

I am a sucker for JRPG's, I love playing them and I love the journey they take me on, so, I couldn’t be happier for Soul Saga reaching its goal. Soul Saga is a story driven RPG with environmental puzzles and turn based combat styled after other RPG games like…

In update 19 of the OZombie Kickstarter campaign page, American McGee lists two reasons why this trip back to OZ has been cut short: 1) He wants to start a campaign for the Alice film rights since the window to obtain them is very small. 2) The OZ campaign was…

In the recent OZombie Kickstarter updates American wanted to stress that he is listening to all of the backers and the fans: "Please try not to interpret my responses (or lack of response) as being "arrogant," "deceptive," or ignorant of what's going wrong here. Myself and Ophelea don't have our…

"Doug TenNapel, creator of Earthworm Jim and The Neverhoodhas partnered with Pencil Test Studios, to create what some have called The Neverhood's "spiritual successor" - a clay and puppet animated adventure game called ARMIKROG." The game is a point and click adventure game which features a space explorer named Tommynaut and…

It’s been less than two weeks since the project launched to encourage the creation of games that do good and improve common perceptions of video games as a medium. Extra Credits writer James Portnow, who organized the fund, has been actively fulfilling its promise since day one. He has met…

 On the Alice: Otherlands Facebook page, the kickstarter rewards (as well as the above concept art) have just been revealed: $5 - Access to Access to the closed forums during development and beta with unique avatar$10 - Backer Kit of wallpapers, avatars, etc.$12 - Early Bird (15,000) Digital backer-only Alice…